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We show that the well-known discrepancy between the radial dependence of the Galactic cosmic ray (CR) nucleon distribution, as inferred most recently from EGRET observations of diffuse gamma-rays above 100 MeV, and of the most likely CR…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 D. Breitschwerdt , V. A. Dogiel , H. J. Voelk

It is well known that cosmic rays (CRs) contribute significantly to the pressure of the interstellar medium in our own Galaxy, suggesting that they may play an important role in regulating star formation during the formation and evolution…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Martin Jubelgas , Volker Springel , Torsten A. Ensslin , Christoph Pfrommer

We examine the cosmic-ray protons (CRp) accelerated at collisionless shocks in galaxy clusters using cosmological structure formation simulations. We find that in the intracluster medium (ICM) within the virial radius of simulated clusters,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-04-08 Ji-Hoon Ha , Dongsu Ryu , Hyesung Kang

We report the results of our study of the energy spectra and absolute fluxes of cosmic rays (CRs) in the Local Galaxy based on a five-year $\gamma$-ray observation with the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) of eight nearby giant molecular…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-07-03 Rui-zhi Yang , Emma de Oña Wilhelmi , Felix Aharonian

In this work, we compute the contribution from clusters of galaxies to the diffuse neutrino background. Clusters of galaxies can potentially produce cosmic rays (CRs) up to very-high energies via large-scale shocks and turbulent…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-10-28 Saqib Hussain , Rafael Alves Batista , Elisabete de Gouveia Dal Pino , Klaus Dolag

We have calculated the cosmic ray (CR) acceleration at young remnants from Type Ia supernovae expanding into a uniform interstellar medium (ISM). Adopting quasi-parallel magnetic fields, gasdynamic equations and the diffusion convection…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Hyesung Kang

Does cosmic ray (CR) pressure matter for the circumgalactic medium (CGM)? Despite growing interest, this remains a debated question, complicated by limited observational constraints and differing implementations of CR physics in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-10-27 Manami Roy , Kung-Yi Su , Stephanie Tonnesen , Yue Samuel Lu , Cameron Hummels , Sam B. Ponnada

It has been shown that supernova blast waves interacting with winds from massive stars in compact star clusters may be capable of producing cosmic-ray (CR) protons to above $10^{17}$ eV. We give a brief description of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-12-13 A. M. Bykov , M. E. Kalyashova , D. C. Ellison , S. M. Osipov

Galactic cosmic rays (CRs) are a fundamental non-thermal component of the interstellar medium (ISM). Understanding the transport of super-high-energy particles is essential for interpreting observations of Galactic PeVatrons. Classical…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-07 Yue Hu

The spectrum and morphology of the diffuse Galactic gamma-ray emission carries valuable information on cosmic ray (CR) propagation. Recent results obtained by analyzing Fermi-LAT data accumulated over seven years of observation show a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-08-05 S. Recchia , P. Blasi , G. Morlino

This paper considers turbulent damping of Alfven waves in magnetized plasmas. We identify two cases of damping, one related to damping of cosmic rays streaming instability, the other related to damping of Alfven waves emitted by a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-12-21 A. Lazarian

We treat of the high-energy astrophysics of the inner ~200 pc of the Galaxy. Our modelling of this region shows that the supernovae exploding here every few thousand years inject enough power to i) sustain the steady-state, in situ…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2011-05-05 Roland M. Crocker , David I. Jones , Felix Aharonian , Casey J. Law , Fulvio Melia , Tomoharu Oka , Juergen Ott

We investigate the transport of spectrally resolved cosmic ray (CR) protons with kinetic energies between $1-100$ GeV within the dynamic, multiphase interstellar medium (ISM), using a two-moment CR fluid solver applied to a TIGRESS MHD…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-02 Lucia Armillotta , Eve C. Ostriker , Nora B. Linzer

We develop a theory to account for the cosmic ray spectrum between 1 GeV and 10^4 GeV following the earlier papers of this series. We use the basic concept that the cosmic ray particles are accelerated in a supernova shock that travels…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Peter L. Biermann , Richard G. Strom

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

This paper deals with the cosmic-ray penetration into molecular clouds and with the related gamma--ray emission. High energy cosmic rays interact with the dense gas and produce neutral pions which in turn decay into two gamma rays. This…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-11 Stefano Gabici

The majority of cosmic rays (CRs) generated by star-forming galaxies escape them and enter the intergalactic medium (IGM). Galactic wind termination shocks might also accelerate CRs. I show that the mean pressure of these CRs can reach to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Brian C. Lacki

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

Using analytic methods and $1$-D two-fluid simulations, we study the effect of cosmic rays (CRs) on the dynamics of interstellar superbubbles (ISBs) driven by multiple supernovae (SNe)/stellar winds in OB associations. In addition to CR…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-11-08 Siddhartha Gupta , Biman B. Nath , Prateek Sharma , David Eichler

We study dynamical effects of cosmics rays (CRs) on the thermal instability in the linear regime. CRs and the thermal plasma are treated as two different interacting fluids, in which CRs can diffuse along the magnetic field lines. We show…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-05-14 Mohsen Shadmehri