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Cosmic rays are the main agents in controlling the chemical evolution and setting the ambipolar diffusion time of a molecular cloud. We summarise the processes causing the energy degradation of cosmic rays due to their interaction with…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-06-11 Marco Padovani , Patrick Hennebelle , Daniele Galli

New analysis confirms our earlier claim [1], [7] of circles of notably low temperature variance, often in concentric sets, in the cosmic microwave background (CMB), discernable in WMAP data. Their reality can be interpreted as evidence of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-04 V. G. Gurzadyan , R. Penrose

We explore the possibility that inverse-Compton (IC) scattering of cosmic microwave background photons by $\sim$GeV cosmic rays (CRs) injected by the central active galactic nucleus (AGN) in cool core (CC) clusters produces a non-negligible…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-17 Emily M. Silich , Jack Sayers , Philip F. Hopkins , Charles Romero , Brian Mason , John Orlowski-Scherer , Craig L. Sarazin

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 rays are crucial for the chemistry of molecular clouds and their evolution. They provide essential ionizations, dissociations, heating and energy to the cold, dense cores. As cosmic rays pierce through the clouds they are attenuated…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-08-03 Ross O'Donoghue , Serena Viti , Marco Padovani , Tomas James

The nature of cosmic rays (CRs) and cosmic ray transport in galaxy clusters is probed by a number of observations. Radio observations reveal the synchrotron radiation of cosmic ray electrons (CRe) spiraling around cluster magnetic fields.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-06-26 Joshua Wiener , Ellen G. Zweibel

The spectrum and statistics of the cosmic microwave background radiation (CMBR) are investigated under the hypothesis that scale invariance of the primordial density fluctuations should be promoted to full conformal invariance. As in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 I. Antoniadis , P. O. Mazur , E. Mottola

The results of recognition of cosmic ray (CR) signatures on a single image were analyzed for several codes written by several authors. For most visual images made during low solar activity at exposure time t>4 s, the number of clusters of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 S. I. Ipatov , M. F. A'Hearn , K. P. Klaasen

Cosmic rays (CRs) are a pivotal non-thermal component of galaxy formation and evolution. However, the intricacies of CR physics, particularly how they propagate in the circumgalactic medium (CGM), remain largely unconstrained. In this work,…

The effects of cosmic-ray diffusion and radiative cooling on the structure of the Galactic wind are studied using a steady state approximation. It is known that realistic cooling processes suppress the wind from launching. The effects of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-02-16 Jiro Shimoda , Shu-ichiro Inutsuka

Galactic Cosmic Rays (GCRs) have to travel through the heliosphere before they interact with the Earth's atmosphere. During this, they are deflected by the Sun's magnetic field, causing variations in this field to imprint on the flux,…

Angular correlations of ultra-high energy cosmic rays with cosmologically distant sources may provide clues to these mysterious events. We compare cosmic ray tracks with energies above $ 10^{20}eV$ to a compilation of radio-loud compact QSO…

We study the properties of cosmic-ray (CR) driven galactic winds from the warm interstellar medium using idealized spherically symmetric time-dependent simulations. The key ingredients in the model are radiative cooling and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-08-11 Shaunak Modak , Eliot Quataert , Yan-Fei Jiang , Todd A. Thompson

We consider a cosmic ray spectrum that is a power law in momentum down to a cutoff and derive a lower cutoff corresponding to $E_{kin} \sim (30-60)$ MeV from the observed ionization rates in nearby diffuse clouds. While the real spectra of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Biman B. Nath , Peter L. Biermann

We investigate the correlation of gravitational lensing of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) with several tracers of large-scale structure, including luminous red galaxies (LRGs), quasars, and radio sources. The lensing field is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Christopher M. Hirata , Shirley Ho , Nikhil Padmanabhan , Uros Seljak , Neta Bahcall

We investigate the impact of cosmic rays (CRs) on the circumgalactic medium (CGM) in FIRE-2 simulations, for ultra-faint dwarf through Milky Way (MW)-mass halos hosting star-forming (SF) galaxies. Our CR treatment includes injection by…

Cosmic rays (CRs) interact with turbulent magnetic fields in the intestellar medium, generating nonthermal emission. After many decades of studies, the theoretical understanding of their diffusion in the ISM continues to pose a challenge.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-15 Lucas Barreto-Mota , Elisabete M. de Gouveia Dal Pino , Siyao Xu , Alexandre Lazarian

This report is the first of two addenda to the CLOUD proposal at CERN (physics/0104048), which aims to test experimentally the existence a link between cosmic rays and cloud formation, and to understand the microphysical mechanism. The…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2012-08-27 The Cloud Collaboration

Radio observations prove the existence of relativistic particles and magnetic field associated with the intra-cluster-medium (ICM) through the presence of extended synchrotron emission in the form of radio halos and peripheral relics. This…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 G. Brunetti , T. W. Jones

An observation-based Galactic Cosmic Ray (GCR) spectral model for heavy nuclei is developed. Zhao and Qin (J. Geophys. Res. Space Phys.118, 1837(2013)) proposed an empirical elemental GCR spectra model for nuclear charge 5-28 over the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-05 Shuai Fu , LingLing Zhao , Gary P. Zank , Miao Wang , Yong Jiang