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We simulate the evolution of relativistic electrons injected into the medium of a small galaxy cluster by a central radio galaxy, studying how the initial jet power affects the dispersal and the emission properties of radio plasma. By…

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We present a quantitative analysis of the time-delay effect on the cosmic background radiation (CBR) by static gravitational potential of galaxy clusters. This is primarily motivated by growing observational evidence that clusters have…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Da-Ming Chen , Xiang-Ping Wu , Dong-Rong Jiang

In galactic disks, the Parker instability results when non-thermal pressure support exceeds a certain threshold. The non-thermal pressures considered in the Parker instability are cosmic ray pressure and magnetic pressure. This instability…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-02 Roark Habegger , Ellen G. Zweibel , Sherry Wong

Cosmic rays (CRs) drive ionization and influence gas dynamics in molecular clouds (MCs), potentially impacting the resulting star formation outcomes. Although previous simulations of individual star formation have included methods for…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-24 Margot Fitz Axen , Stella S. R. Offner , Philip F. Hopkins , Michael Y. Grudić

The Sunyaev--Zel'dovich (SZ) effect is a global distortion of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) spectrum as a result of its interaction with a hot electron plasma in the intracluster medium of large structures gravitationally viralized…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-25 Alexander Bonilla , Jairo E. Castillo

The High Energy Stereoscopic System (HESS), the Major Atmospheric Gamma-ray Imaging Cherenkov Telescope (MAGIC), and the Very Energetic Radiation Imaging Telescope Array System (VERITAS) have observed diffuse gamma-ray emission strongly…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-03-14 Andrés Scherer , Jorge Cuadra , Franz E. Bauer

We present a novel implementation of cosmic rays (CR) in the magneto-hydrodynamic code FLASH. CRs are described as separate fluids with different energies. CR advection, energy dependent anisotropic diffusion with respect to the magnetic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-06-20 Philipp Girichidis , Thorsten Naab , Stefanie Walch , Michal Hanasz

Cosmic rays are energetic nuclei that permeate the entire Galactic disk. Their existence requires the presence of powerful particle accelerators. While Galactic supernova explosions may supply the required energy, there is growing evidence…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-07-11 Giada Peron , Sabrina Casanova , Stefano Gabici , Vardan Baghmanyan , Felix Aharonian

In the Milky Way, cosmic rays (CRs) are dynamically important in the interstellar medium, contribute to hydrostatic balance, and may help regulate star formation. However, we know far less about the importance of CRs in galaxies whose gas…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-01-27 Roland M. Crocker , Mark R. Krumholz , Todd A. Thompson

Non-thermal emission from relativistic electrons gives insight into the strength and morphology of intra-cluster magnetic fields, as well as providing powerful tracers of structure formation shocks. Emission caused by Cosmic Ray (CR)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-02 Ludwig M. Böss , Ulrich P. Steinwandel , Klaus Dolag

Baryonic feedback alters the matter distribution on small and intermediate scales, posing a challenge for precision cosmology. The new, component-wise baryonification (BFC) approach provides a self-consistent framework to model feedback…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-11 Michael Kovač , Andrina Nicola , Jozef Bucko , Aurel Schneider , Robert Reischke , Sambit K. Giri , Romain Teyssier , Matthieu Schaller , Joop Schaye

Cosmic rays (CRs) play a major role in the dynamics of the interstellar medium (ISM). Their interactions and transport ionize, heat, and push the ISM thereby coupling different regions of it. The spatial distribution of CRs depends on the…

Massive structures like cluster of galaxies, embedded in cosmic filaments, release enormous amount of energy through their interactions. These events are associated with production of Mpc-scale shocks and injection of considerable amount of…

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Studying galaxy clusters through their Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) imprint on the Cosmic Microwave Background has many important advantages. The total SZ signal is an accurate and precise tracer of the total pressure in the intra-cluster medium…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-12-19 Keith Grainge , Stefano Borgani , Sergio Colafrancesco , Chiara Ferrari , Anna Scaife , Paolo Marchegiani , S. Emritte , J. Weller

The negative evolution found in X--ray clusters of galaxies limits the amount of available hot gas for the inverse Compton scattering of the Cosmic Microwave Background (the Sunyaev--Zel'dovich effect). Using a parametrisation of the X-ray…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 M. T. Ceballos , X. Barcons

Cosmic rays produce molecular cluster ions as they pass through the lower atmosphere. Neutral molecular clusters such as dimers and complexes are expected to make a small contribution to the radiative balance, but atmospheric absorption by…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2013-03-08 K. L. Aplin , M. Lockwood

Cosmic-ray (CR) feedback is widely recognized as a key regulator of galaxy formation. After being accelerated at supernova remnant shocks, CRs propagate through the interstellar medium (ISM), establishing smooth large-scale distributions…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-10-21 Timon Thomas , Christoph Pfrommer , Rüdiger Pakmor , Rouven Lemmerz , Mohamad Shalaby

We simulate the propagation of cosmic rays at ultra-high energies, $\gtrsim 10^{18}$ eV, in models of extragalactic magnetic fields in constrained simulations of the local Universe. We use constrained initial conditions with the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-08 Stefan Hackstein , Franco Vazza , Marcus Brüggen , Jenny G. Sorce , Stefan Gottlöber

Accurate estimation of the merger timescale of galaxy clusters is important to understand the cluster merger process and further the formation and evolution of the large-scale structure of the universe. In this paper, we explore a baryonic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-06 Congyao Zhang , Qingjuan Yu , Youjun Lu

Cosmological shock waves are ubiquitous to cosmic structure formation and evolution. As a consequence, they play a major role in the energy distribution and thermalization of the intergalactic medium (IGM). We analyze the Mach number…