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Galactic cosmic rays (CRs) inside the heliosphere are affected by solar modulation. To investigate this phenomenon and its underlying physical mechanisms, we have performed a data-driven analysis of the temporal dependence of the CR proton…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-07-21 Emanuele Fiandrini , Nicola Tomassetti , Bruna Bertucci , Federico Donnini , Maura Graziani , Behrouz Khiali , Alejandro Reina Conde

The radiative cooling time of the X-ray-emitting plasma near the center in many clusters of galaxies is shorter than the age of the cluster, but neither the expected large drop in central temperature --nor the expected mass flow towards the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Sergio Colafrancesco , Arnon Dar , Alvaro De Rujula

Observations show that (i) multiple gas phases can coexist in the atmospheres of galaxies and clusters; (ii) these atmospheres may be significantly rotating in the inner parts, with typical velocities that approach or even exceed the local…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-03-27 Emanuele Sobacchi , Mattia Sormani

The physics of Cosmic ray (CR) transport remains a key uncertainty in assessing whether CRs can produce galaxy-scale outflows consistent with observations. In this paper, we elucidate the physics of CR-driven galactic winds for CR transport…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-11-24 Eliot Quataert , Todd A. Thompson , Yan-Fei Jiang

Galactic cosmic rays (GCRs) inside the heliosphere are affected by magnetic turbulence and Solar wind disturbances which result in the so-called solar modulation effect. To investigate this phenomenon, we have performed a data-driven…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-10-13 Nicola Tomassetti , Bruna Bertucci , Federico Donnini , Emanuele Fiandrini , Maura Graziani , Behrouz Khiali , Alejandro Reina Conde

The circumgalactic medium (CGM) contains information on the cumulative effect of galactic outflows over time, generally thought to be caused by feedback from star formation and active galactic nuclei. Observations of such outflows via…

Cosmic ray (CR) currents through magnetised plasma drive strong instabilities producing amplification of the magnetic field. This amplification helps explain the CR energy spectrum as well as observations of supernova remnants and radio…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-07-31 James H. Matthews , Anthony R. Bell , Katherine M. Blundell , Anabella T. Araudo

Cosmic rays (CRs) are thought to play a dynamically important role in several key aspects of galaxy evolution, including the structure of the interstellar medium, the formation of galactic winds, and the non-thermal pressure support of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-11-19 Yohan Dubois , Benoît Commerçon , Alexandre Marcowith , Loann Brahimi

Kinetic diffusion of cosmic rays ahead of perpendicular shocks induces charge non-neutrality, which is mostly, yet not completely, screened by the bulk plasma via polarization drift current. Hydrodynamic shear instabilities as well as…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-14 Maxim Lyutikov

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 the interplay among cooling, heating, conduction, and magnetic fields in gravitationally stratified plasmas using simplified, plane-parallel numerical simulations. Since the physical heating mechanism remains uncertain in massive…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-12-05 Michael McCourt , Prateek Sharma , Eliot Quataert , Ian J. Parrish

We study the capability of low-energy cosmic rays (CR) to penetrate into diffuse clouds when they move from the hot ionized plasma to a cool cloud embedded in that plasma. The spectrum of CR inside a cloud can be remarkably different from…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-10-30 Giovanni Morlino , Stefano Gabici

In clusters of galaxies, the specific entropy of intracluster plasma increases outwards. Nevertheless, a number of recent studies have shown that the intracluster medium is subject to buoyancy instabilities due to the effects of cosmic rays…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Yann Rasera , Benjamin Chandran

The spatial distribution of cosmic ray (CR) particles in the interstellar medium (ISM) is of major importance in radio astronomy, where its knowledge is essential for the interpretation of observations, and in theoretical astrophysics,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-06-28 Devika Tharakkal , Andrew P. Snodin , Graeme R. Sarson , Anvar Shukurov

Recently, cosmic ray (CR) feedback has been identified as a critical process in galaxy formation but most previous simulations have integrated out the energy-dependence of the CR distribution, despite its large extent over more than twelve…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-03-15 Philipp Girichidis , Christoph Pfrommer , Rüdiger Pakmor , Volker Springel

One of the key questions to understanding the efficiency of diffusive shock acceleration of the cosmic rays (CRs) is the injection process from thermal particles. A self-consistent injection model based on the interactions of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 U. D. J. Gieseler , T. W. Jones , Hyesung Kang

Cosmic rays (CRs) have critical impacts in the multiphase interstellar medium (ISM), driving dynamical motions in low-density plasma and modifying the ionization state, temperature, and chemical composition of higher-density atomic and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-02-23 Christopher J. Bambic , Xue-Ning Bai , Eve C. Ostriker

Cosmic-ray (CR) streaming instability (CRSI) is believed to play an important role in CR transport and CR feedback to galaxies. It drives the growth of magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) waves that scatter CRs, and leads to energy/momentum exchange…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-06-11 Shuzhe Zeng , Xue-Ning Bai , Xiaochen Sun

An exact turbulence universal scaling law-8/3 for the density fluctuations of cosmic ray (CR) is obtained on the basis of a new analytical compressible turbulence theory and known two-fluid model of the CR dynamics. It is shown that the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-02-11 Artem S. Chefranov , Sergey G. Chefranov , Georgy S. Golitsyn

The majority of cosmic rays (CRs) generated by star-forming galaxies escape them and enter the intergalactic medium (IGM). Galactic wind termination shocks might also accelerate CRs. I show that the mean pressure of these CRs can reach to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Brian C. Lacki