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Observations of giant radio halos provide unambiguous evidence for the existence of cosmic ray (CR) electrons and magnetic fields in galaxy clusters. The physical mechanism generating radio halos is still heavily debated. We critically…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-09-28 Christoph Pfrommer , Torsten Ensslin , Francesco Miniati , Kandaswamy Subramanian

The physics of cosmic rays (CR) is a promising candidate for explaining the driving of galactic winds and outflows. Recent galaxy formation simulations have demonstrated the need for active CR transport either in the form of diffusion or…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-07-19 Ruediger Pakmor , Christoph Pfrommer , Christine M. Simpson , Volker Springel

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

We review numerical methods for simulations of cosmic ray (CR) propagation on galactic and larger scales. We present the development of algorithms designed for phenomenological and self-consistent models of CR propagation in kinetic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-06-17 M. Hanasz , A. Strong , P. Girichidis

In our previous work, we have investigated Galactic cosmic ray (GCR) spectra and anisotropy from 100 GeV to PeV, under anisotropic propagation model with axisymmetric distributed galactic sources. Numerous observational evidence have…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-12-24 Aifeng Li , Zhaodong Lv , Wei Liu , Yiqing Guo , Fangheng Zhang

The propagation of cosmic rays in turbulent magnetic fields is a diffusive process driven by the scattering of the charged particles by random magnetic fluctuations. Such fields are usually highly intermittent, consisting of intense…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-04-19 Anvar Shukurov , Andrew Snodin , Amit Seta , Paul Bushby , Toby Wood

The anisotropy of cosmic rays (CRs) in the solar vicinity is generally at- tributed to the CR streaming due to the discrete distribution of CR sources or local magnetic field modulation. Recently, the two dimensional large scale CR…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2012-04-17 Xiao-bo Qu , Yi Zhang , Liang Xue , Cheng Liu , Hong-bo Hu

Cosmic rays (CRs) interact with the gas, the radiation field and the magnetic field in the Milky Way, producing diffuse emission from radio to gamma rays. Observations of this diffuse emission and comparison with detailed predictions are…

One of the unsolved problems in cosmic ray (CR) physics is the small radial gradient of the gamma-ray intensity compared to the inferred CR source distribution in the Galactic disk. In diffusive CR propagation models the most natural…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 D. Breitschwerdt , V. Dogiel , H. J. V"olk

The paper numerically investigates the propagation of galactic cosmic rays in a model magnetic field, which is a composition of an isotropic turbulent field with the Kolmogorov turbulence spectrum and a regular constant field. The…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-11-08 V. O Yurovsky , A. I. Peryatinskaya , I. Kudryashov

Models for cosmic ray (CR) dynamics fundamentally depend on the rate of CR scattering from magnetic fluctuations. In the ISM, for CRs with energies ~MeV-TeV, these fluctuations are usually attributed either to 'extrinsic turbulence' (ET) -…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-11-10 Philip F. Hopkins , Jonathan Squire , Iryna S. Butsky , Suoqing Ji

Motivated by the discovery of the non-thermal Fermi bubble features both below and above the Galactic plane, we investigate a scenario in which these bubbles are formed through Galacto-centric outflow. Cosmic rays (CR) both diffusing and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-01-11 Andrew M. Taylor , Gwenael Giacinti

Galactic cosmic rays (CRs) play a crucial role in galaxy formation and evolution by altering gas dynamics and chemistry across multiple scales. Typical numerical simulations of CR transport assume a constant diffusion coefficient for the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-10-16 Sarah Thiele , Romain Teyssier

Recent multifrequency observations contribute to derive a comprehensive picture of the origin and evolution of relativistic particles in galaxy clusters. In this review I briefly discuss theoretical aspects and open problems of this…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-03-19 G. Brunetti

Anisotropy is very important to understand cosmic ray (CR) source and interstellar environment. The theoretical explanation of cosmic rays anisotropy from experiments remains challenging and even puzzling for a long time. In this paper, by…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-07-16 Haoran Meng , Gang Qin

The microphysics of ~GeV cosmic ray (CR) transport on galactic scales remain deeply uncertain, with almost all studies adopting simple prescriptions (e.g. constant-diffusivity). We explore different physically-motivated, anisotropic,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-03-18 Philip F. Hopkins , Jonathan Squire , T. K. Chan , Eliot Quataert , Suoqing Ji , Dusan Keres , Claude-Andre Faucher-Giguere

The origin of cosmic rays (CRs) and how they propagate remain unclear. Studying the propagation of CRs in magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence can help to comprehend many open issues related to CR origin and the role of turbulent magnetic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-01-10 Na-Na Gao , Jian-Fu Zhang

The physics of Cosmic ray (CR) transport remains a key uncertainty in assessing whether CRs can produce galaxy-scale outflows consistent with observations. In this paper, we elucidate the physics of CR-driven galactic winds for CR transport…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-11-24 Eliot Quataert , Todd A. Thompson , Yan-Fei Jiang

The origin of the bulk of cosmic rays (CRs) observed at Earth is the topic of a century long investigation, paved with successes and failures. From the energetic point of view, supernova remnants (SNRs) remain the most plausible sources of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-12-09 Pasquale Blasi

Cosmic rays (CRs) with ~GeV energies can contribute significantly to the energy and pressure budget in the interstellar, circumgalactic, and intergalactic medium (ISM, CGM, IGM). Recent cosmological simulations have begun to explore these…

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