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Recent study suggests that the streaming instability, one of the leading mechanisms for driving the formation of planetesimals, may not be as efficient as previously thought. Under some disc conditions, the growth timescale of the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-02 Zhaohuan Zhu , Chao-Chin Yang

There is an observational correlation between astrophysical shocks and non-thermal particle distributions extending to high energies. As a first step toward investigating the possible feedback of these particles on the shock at the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-01-31 Thomas Stroman , Martin Pohl , Jacek Niemiec , Antoine Bret

The problem of cosmic-ray scattering in the turbulent electromagnetic fields of the interstellar medium and the solar wind is of great importance due to the variety of applications of the resulting diffusion coefficients. Examples are…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-20 R. C. Tautz

Cosmic rays (CRs) are an integral part of the non-thermal pressure budget in the interstellar medium (ISM) and are the leading-order ionization mechanism in cold molecular clouds. We study the impacts that different microphysical CR…

Large-scale galactic winds driven by stellar feedback are one phenomenon that influences the dynamical and chemical evolution of a galaxy, redistributing material throughout the circumgalatic medium. Non-thermal feedback from galactic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-09-25 F. Holguin , M. Ruszkowski , A. Lazarian , R. Farber , H. -Y. K. Yang

Subsonic, compressive turbulence transfers energy to cosmic rays (CRs), a process known as non-resonant reacceleration. It is often invoked to explain observed ratios of primary to secondary CRs at $\sim \rm GeV$ energies, assuming wholly…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-01-23 Chad Bustard , S. Peng Oh

We study dynamical effects of cosmics rays (CRs) on the thermal instability in the linear regime. CRs and the thermal plasma are treated as two different interacting fluids, in which CRs can diffuse along the magnetic field lines. We show…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-05-14 Mohsen Shadmehri

Phenomenological studies of cosmic-ray self-confinement often hinge on the linear theory for the growth rate of the streaming instability and for the damping rate of the generated magnetic modes. Largely different expressions exist,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-17 Benedikt Schroer , Damiano Caprioli , Pasquale Blasi

I theoretically found eigenmodes and growth rates of relativistic current filamentation instability in collisional regimes, deriving a generalized dispersion relation from self-consistent beam-Maxwell equations. For symmetrically…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Mitsuru Honda

In the absence of magnetic fields and cosmic rays, radiative cooling laws with a range of dependences on temperature affect the stability of interstellar gas. For about four and a half decades, astrophysicists have recognised the importance…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2011-08-08 T. W. Hartquist , A. Y. Wagner , S. A. E. G. Falle , J. M. Pittard , S. Van Loo

In order for diffusive shock acceleration (DSA) to accelerate particles to high energies, the energetic particles must be able to interact with magnetic turbulence over a broad wavelength range. The weakly anisotropic distribution of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-20 A. M. Bykov , S. M. Osipov , D. C. Ellison

We show that an alpha effect is driven by the cosmic ray Bell instability exciting left-right asymmetric turbulence. Alfven waves of a preferred polarization have maximally helical motion, because the transverse motion of each mode is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-06-21 Igor Rogachevskii , Nathan Kleeorin , Axel Brandenburg , David Eichler

Low-energy cosmic rays (CRs) are confined by self-generated MHD waves in the mostly neutral ISM. We show that the CR transport equation can be expressed as a continuity equation for the CR number density involving an effective convection…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Paolo Padoan , John Scalo

The macroscopic behaviour of cosmic rays in turbulent magnetic fields is discussed. An implementation of anisotropic diffusion of cosmic rays with respect to the magnetic field in a non-conservative, high-order, finite-difference…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 A. P. Snodin , Axel Brandenburg , A. J. Mee , Anvar Shukurov

Supernova blast wave shock is a very important site of cosmic-ray acceleration. However, the detailed physical process of acceleration, in particular, non-linear interplay between cosmic-ray streaming and magnetic field amplification has…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-04-08 Tsuyoshi Inoue , Alexandre Marcowith , Gwenael Giacinti

Several important mechanisms that explain the coherent pulsar radio emission rely on streaming (or beam) instabilities of the relativistic pair plasma in a pulsar magnetosphere. However, it is still not clear whether a streaming instability…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-06-02 Alina C. Manthei , Jan Benáček , Patricio A. Muñoz , Jörg Büchner

Cosmic rays (CRs) leave their sources mainly along the local magnetic field; in doing so they excite both resonant and nonresonant modes through streaming instabilities. The excitation of these modes leads to enhanced scattering and in turn…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-06-10 Benedikt Schroer , Oreste Pezzi , Damiano Caprioli , Colby Haggerty , Pasquale Blasi

The process of diffusive shock acceleration relies on the efficacy with which hydromagnetic waves can scatter charged particles in the precursor of a shock. The growth of self-generated waves is driven by both resonant and non-resonant…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 B. Reville , S. O'Sullivan , P. Duffy , J. G. Kirk

We aim to elucidate cosmic ray (CR) propagation in the weakly ionized environments of supernova remnants (SNRs) basing our analysis on the cosmic ray cloud (CRC) model developed by \citet{2013ApJ...768...73M} and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-01-15 L. Brahimi , A. Marcowith , V. S. Ptuskin

In this second paper in a series dedicated to characterizing shear layers via 2D hybrid (kinetic ions -- fluid electrons) simulations, we study the dynamical role of nonthermal particles (cosmic rays, CRs), either spontaneously generated or…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-15 Naixin Liang , Damiano Caprioli