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Shocks are a ubiquitous consequence of cosmic structure formation, and they play an essential role in heating galaxy cluster media. Virtually all of the gas in clusters has been processed by one or more shocks of at least moderate strength.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 T. W. Jones , Francesco Miniati , Dongsu Ryu , Hyesung Kang , Eric J. Hallman

A numerical scheme that incorporates a thermal leakage injection model into a combined gas dynamics and cosmic ray (CR, hereafter) diffusion-convection code has been developed. The particle injection is followed numerically by filtering the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Hyesung Kang , T. W. Jones , U. D. J. Gieseler

Cosmological hydrodynamic simulations have demonstrated that shock waves could be produced in the intergalactic medium by supersonic flow motions during the course of hierarchical clustering of the large-scale-structure in the Universe.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-06-13 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

We investigate the possibility that radio halos of clusters of galaxies are caused by synchrotron emission of cosmic ray electrons (CRe), which were produced by cosmic ray protons (CRp) interacting hadronically with the intra-cluster medium…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-23 Klaus Dolag , Torsten A. Ensslin

We present a suite of high-resolution cosmological simulations, using the FIRE-2 feedback physics together with explicit treatment of magnetic fields, anisotropic conduction and viscosity, and cosmic rays (CRs) injected by supernovae…

Galactic cosmic rays (CR) are particles presumably accelerated in supernova remnant shocks that propagate in the interstellar medium up to the densest parts of molecular clouds, losing energy and their ionisation efficiency because of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-05-25 M. Padovani , A. Marcowith , P. Hennebelle , K. Ferrière

Feedback processes by active galactic nuclei in the centres of galaxy clusters appear to prevent large-scale cooling flows and impede star formation. However, the detailed heating mechanism remains uncertain. One promising heating scenario…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-30 Kristian Ehlert , Rainer Weinberger , Christoph Pfrommer , Rüdiger Pakmor , Volker Springel

The masses of clusters of galaxies estimated by gravitational lensing exceed in many cases the mass estimates based on hydrostatic equilibrium. This may suggest the existence of nonthermal pressure. We ask if radio galaxies can heat and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 T. A. Ensslin , P. L. Biermann , P. P. Kronberg , X. -P. Wu

Cosmic rays (CRs) are an important component in the interstellar medium (ISM), but their effect on the dynamics of the disk-halo interface (< 10 kpc from the disk) is still unclear. We study the influence of CRs on the gas above the disk…

Nonthermal particles can be produced due to incomplete thermalization at collisionless shocks and further accelerated to very high energies via diffusive shock acceleration. In a previous study we explored the cosmic ray (CR) acceleration…

Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-18 Hyesung Kang

We study the properties of cosmological shock waves identified in high-resolution, N-body/hydrodynamic simulations of a $\Lambda$CDM universe and their role on thermalization of gas and acceleration of nonthermal, cosmic ray (CR) particles.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Dongsu Ryu , Hyesung Kang , Eric Hallman , T. W. Jones

Cosmological shock waves result from supersonic flow motions induced by hierarchical clustering of nonlinear structures in the universe. These shocks govern the nature of cosmic plasma through thermalization of gas and acceleration of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Hyesung Kang , Dongsu Ryu , Renyue Cen , J. P. Ostriker

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

We investigate the effects of cosmic ray (CR) dynamics on cold, dense clouds embedded in a hot, tenuous galactic halo. If the magnetic field does not increase too much inside the cloud, the local reduction in Alfv\'en speed imposes a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-01-25 Joshua Wiener , S. Peng Oh , Ellen G. Zweibel

Galactic outflows influence the evolution of galaxies not only by expelling gas from their disks but also by injecting energy into the circumgalactic medium (CGM). This alters or even prevents the inflow of fresh gas onto the disk and thus…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-06-04 Timon Thomas , Christoph Pfrommer , Rüdiger Pakmor

Cosmic ray electron (CRE) acceleration and cooling are important physical processes in astrophysics. We develop an approximative framework to treat CRE physics in the parallel smoothed particle hydrodynamics code Gadget-3. In our…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-12-03 Dongchao Zheng , Weitian Li , Zhenghao Zhu , Chenxi Shan , Jiajun Zhang , Linfeng Xiao , Xiaoli Lian , Dan Hu

We consider cosmic ray (CR) modified shocks with both streaming and diffusion in the two-fluid description. Previously, numerical codes were unable to incorporate streaming in this demanding regime, and have never been compared against…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-08-25 Tsun Hin Navin Tsung , S. Peng Oh , Yan-Fei Jiang

Non-thermal emission from relativistic Cosmic Ray (CR) 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 CR…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-03-21 Ludwig M. Böss , Ulrich P. Steinwandel , Klaus Dolag , Harald Lesch

We present our recently developed {\em galcon} approach to hydrodynamical cosmological simulations of galaxy clusters - a subgrid model added to the {\em Enzo} adaptive mesh refinement code - which is capable of tracking galaxies within the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Yinon Arieli , Yoel Rephaeli , Michael L. Norman