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Voyager 1 and 2 crossed the heliopause at $\sim$122 AU in 2012 and $\sim$119 AU in 2018, respectively. It was quite a surprise because the thickness of the inner heliosheath obtained by the existing at that time models of the global…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-29 V. V. Izmodenov , D. B. Alexashov

Since crossing the heliopause on August 25, 2012, Voyager 1 observed reductions in galactic cosmic ray count rates caused by a time-varying depletion of particles with pitch angles near 90-deg, while intensities of particles with other…

Space Physics · Physics 2019-05-30 J. S. Rankin , E. C. Stone , A. C. Cummings , D. J. McComas , N. Lal , B. C. Heikkila

Recently a new transport theory of cosmic rays in magnetized space plasmas extending the quasilinear approximation to the particle orbit has been developed for the case of an axisymmetric incompressible magnetic turbulence. Here we…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-03 Sabrina Casanova , Reinhard Schlickeiser

The diffusive and convective CR transport in NGC 253 from the disk into the halo is investigated using the local CR bulk speed. The connection between the CR transport and the galactic wind is outlined. We observed NGC 253 with the VLA at…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 V. Heesen , R. Beck , M. Krause , R. -J. Dettmar

The simulations of the formation of cosmological structure allows to determine the spatial inhomogeneity of cosmic magnetic fields. Such simulations, however, do not give an absolute number for the strength of the magnetic field due to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Peter L. Biermann , Hyesung Kang , Joerg P. Rachen , Dongsu Ryu

We use three dimensional radiation magneto-hydrodynamic simulations to study the effects of magnetic fields on the energy transport and structure of radiation pressure dominated main sequence massive star envelopes at the region of the iron…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-07-19 Yan-Fei Jiang , Matteo Cantiello , Lars Bildsten , Eliot Quataert , Omer Blaes

We investigate effects of cosmic-rays on the linear growth of the Kelvin-Helmholtz instability. Cosmic-rays are treated as an adiabatic gas and allowed to diffuse along magnetic field lines. We calculated the dispersion relation of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-19 Akihiro Suzuki , Hiroyuki R. Takahashi , Takahiro Kudoh

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

After the termination shock (TS) crossing, the Voyager 2 spacecraft has been observing strong variations of the magnetic field and solar wind parameters in the heliosheath. Anomalous cosmic rays, electrons, and galactic cosmic rays present…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 E. Provornikova , M. Opher , V. Izmodenov , G. Toth

Charged particles gyrate around magnetic field lines, a property that is exploited to confine plasma in magnetic confinement fusion devices. Typically, the gyroradius is small compared to the system size and thus the gyromotion can be…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-11-27 Alessandro Geraldini

The pair of large radio lobes in the Virgo cluster, each about 23 kpc in radius, have curiously sharp outer edges where the radio-synchrotron continuum flux declines abruptly. However, just adjacent to this sharp transition, the radio flux…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 William G. Mathews , Fulai Guo

A detailed understanding of cosmic-ray transport in galactic halos is essential for explaining various observations, such as the radio continuum measurements of synchrotron radiation from energetic electrons. Of central importance is the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-07-14 J. Kleimann , H. Fichtner , M. Stein , R. -J. Dettmar , D. J. Bomans , S. Oughton

We introduce an updated, time-dependent treatment to the split-tail ("croissant-like") heliosphere model with data-driven solar wind conditions at 1 au, to study the evolution of the heliosphere with solar-cycle variations in plasma speed,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-20 Chika Onubogu , M. Opher , E. Powell , S. Du , J. M. Sokół , J. D. Richardson , B. Van Der Holst

We present a comprehensive study about the phenomenological implications of the theory describing Galactic cosmic-ray scattering onto magnetosonic and Alfv\'enic fluctuations in the $\mathrm{GeV} - \mathrm{PeV}$ domain. We compute a set of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-02-17 Ottavio Fornieri , Daniele Gaggero , Silvio Sergio Cerri , Pedro De la Torre Luque , Stefano Gabici

Kinetic helicity is a fundamental characteristics of astrophysical turbulent flows. It is not only responsible for the generation of large-scale magnetic fields in the Sun, stars, and spiral galaxies, but it also affects turbulent diffusion…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-05-15 Igor Rogachevskii , Nathan Kleeorin , Axel Brandenburg

The transport environment for particles in the heliosphere, e.g. galactic cosmic rays (GCRs) and MeV electrons (including those originating from Jupiters magnetosphere), is defined by the solar wind flow and the structure of the embedded…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-09-06 P. Kühl , N. Dresing , P. Dunzlaff , H. Fichtner , J. Gieseler , R. Gómez-Herrero , B. Heber , A. Klassen , J. Kleimann , A. Kopp , M. Potgieter , K. Scherer , R. D. Strauss

Several sets of data show that small interstellar grains captured in interstellar magnetic fields draped over the heliosphere appear to polarize the light of nearby stars. The maximum polarization direction is offset in ecliptic longitude…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Priscilla C. Frisch

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

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

Using data from the Voyager 1 and 2 CRS telescopes available on the web through the end of 2014 we have studied the intensity variations of termination shock H nuclei and anomalous cosmic ray H and He nuclei as a function of radial…

Space Physics · Physics 2015-02-05 W. R. Webber , D. S. Intriligator