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The majority of galactic baryons reside outside of the galactic disk in the diffuse gas known as the circumgalactic medium (CGM). While state-of-the art simulations excel at reproducing galactic disk properties, many struggle to drive…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-12-05 Iryna Butsky , Thomas R. Quinn

The north-south (NS) anisotropy of galactic cosmic rays (GCRs) is dominated by a diamagnetic drift flow of GCRs in the interplanetary magnetic field (IMF), allowing us to derive key parameters of cosmic-ray propagation, such as the density…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-17 M. Kozai , Y. Hayashi , K. Fujii , K. Munakata , C. Kato , N. Miyashita , A. Kadokura , R. Kataoka , S. Miyake , M. L. Duldig , J. E. Humble , K. Iwai

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,…

We explore several aspects related to the propagation of high energy cosmic rays (CRs) of galactic origin (i.e. in the range $E\simeq 10^{15}- 10^{18}$ eV). In particular, we study in detail the diffusion/drift scenario, a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Julián Candia

Galactic cosmic rays (GCRs) are affected by solar modulation while they propagate through the heliosphere. The study of the time variation of GCR spectra observed at Earth can shed light on the underlying physical processes, specifically…

Space Physics · Physics 2023-09-18 Claudio Corti , Peter Sadowski , Nikolay Nikonov , Marius Potgieter , Veronica Bindi

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

More and more observations have indicated the existence of slow diffusion phenomena in astrophysical environments, such as around the supernova remnants and pulsar $\gamma$-ray halos, where the diffusion coefficient of cosmic rays (CRs)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-06-24 Yawen Xiao , Jianfu Zhang , Siyao Xu

We study the compatibility of Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS-02) data on the cosmic-ray (CR) positron fraction with data on the CR electron and positron spectra provided by PAMELA and Fermi LAT. We do that in terms of a novel propagation…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-11-19 Daniele Gaggero , Luca Maccione , Giuseppe Di Bernardo , Carmelo Evoli , Dario Grasso

Important informations on the origin and the propagation mechanisms of cosmic rays may be provided by the measurement of the anisotropies of their arrival direction. In this paper the observation of anisotropy regions at different angular…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 Roberto Iuppa

Cosmic rays (CRs) with energies $\ll$ TeV comprise a significant component of the interstellar medium (ISM). Major uncertainties in CR behavior on observable scales (much larger than CR gyroradii) stem from how magnetic fluctuations scatter…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-01-24 Iryna S. Butsky , Philip F. Hopkins , Philipp Kempski , Sam B. Ponnada , Eliot Quataert , Jonathan Squire

We study the spectrum and anisotropies of ultrahigh energy cosmic ray transient sources, accounting for the effects of their propagation through the turbulent extragalactic magnetic fields. We consider either bursting sources or sources…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-01-19 Diego Harari , Silvia Mollerach , Esteban Roulet

Various studies have implied the existence of a gaseous halo around the Galaxy extending out to 100 kpc. Galactic cosmic rays (CRs) that propagate to the halo, either by diffusion or by convection with the possibly existing large-scale…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-01-30 Ruo-Yu Liu , Huirong Yan , Xiang-Yu Wang , Shi Shao , Hui Li

We study the propagation of mildly-relativistic cosmic rays (CRs) in multiphase interstellar medium environments with conditions typical of nearby disk galaxies. We employ the techniques developed in Armillotta+21 to post-process three…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-05-04 Lucia Armillotta , Eve C. Ostriker , Yan-Fei Jiang

Using a three-component, multi-scale diffusion model, we show that the cosmic-ray (CR) proton and helium spectra and the dipole anisotropy can be explained with reasonable parameters. The model includes a nearby source associated with the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-03-02 Yiran Zhang , Siming Liu , Houdun Zeng

Cosmic ray propagation in the Milky Way and other galaxies is largely diffusive, with mean free path determined primarily by pitch angle scattering from hydromagnetic waves with wavelength of order the cosmic ray gyroradius. In the theory…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-02-19 Ellen G. Zweibel

We calculate spectra of escaping cosmic rays (CRs) accelerated at shocks produced by expanding Galactic superbubbles powered by multiple supernovae producing a continuous energy outflow in star-forming galaxies. We solve the generalized…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-01-28 Zhaowei Zhang , Kohta Murase , Peter Mészáros

In the last decade, a number of experiments dealt with the problem of measuring the arrival direction distribution of cosmic rays, looking for information on the propagation mechanisms and the identification of their sources. Any deviation…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Roberto Iuppa , Giuseppe Di Sciascio

Recent years have seen many arguments for cosmic rays (CRs) as an important influence on galactic and circumgalactic (CGM) physics, star and galaxy formation. We present a pedagogical overview of state-of-the-art modeling of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-05-11 Philip F. Hopkins

Cosmic rays (CRs) are a plausible mechanism for launching winds of cool material from the discs of star-forming galaxies. However, there is no consensus on what types of galaxies likely host CR-driven winds, or what role these winds might…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-03-03 Roland M. Crocker , Mark R. Krumholz , Todd A. Thompson

Research in many areas of modern physics and astrophysics such as, e.g., indirect searches for dark matter (DM), particle acceleration in SNR shocks, and the spectrum and origin of extragalactic gamma-ray background, rely heavily on studies…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-03-19 Igor V. Moskalenko