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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…

Galactic transport models for cosmic rays involve the diffusive motion of these particles in the interstellar medium. Due to the large-scale structured galactic magnetic field this diffusion is anisotropic with respect to the local field…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-06-07 Frederic Effenberger , Horst Fichtner , Klaus Scherer , Ingo Büsching

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

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

Conventional cosmic-ray propagation models usually assume an isotropic diffusion coefficient to account for the random deflection of cosmic rays by the turbulent interstellar magnetic field. Such a picture is very successful in explaining…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-03-24 Wei Liu , Su-jie Lin , Hong-bo Hu , Yi-qing Guo , Ai-feng Li

We have developed a model which aims to reproduce observational data of many kinds related to cosmic-ray (CR) origin and propagation: direct measurements of nuclei, antiprotons, electrons and positrons, gamma-rays, and synchrotron…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 I. V. Moskalenko , A. W. Strong

There is a growing set of observational data demonstrating that cosmic rays exhibit small-scale anisotropies (5-30 deg) with amplitude deviations lying between 0.01-0.1 percent that of the average cosmic ray flux. A broad range of models…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-01-20 Margot Fitz Axen , Julia Speicher , Aimee Hungerford , Chris L. Fryer

The nature of cosmic rays (CRs) and cosmic ray transport in galaxy clusters is probed by a number of observations. Radio observations reveal the synchrotron radiation of cosmic ray electrons (CRe) spiraling around cluster magnetic fields.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-06-26 Joshua Wiener , Ellen G. Zweibel

In a weakly compressible high-$\beta$ medium, pitch-angle scattering and the associated scattering acceleration of cosmic rays (CRs) by anisotropic Alfv\'{e}n and slow modes of magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence is inefficient. To tap the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-06-28 Alex Lazarian , Siyao Xu

The energy spectra of primary and secondary cosmic rays (CR) generally harden at several hundreds of GeV, which can be naturally interpreted by propagation effects. We adopt a spatially dependent CR propagation model to fit the spectral…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-06-22 Meng-Jie Zhao , Kun Fang , Xiao-Jun Bi

We formulate a new model for transport in stochastic media with long-range spatial correlations where exponential attenuation (controlling the propagation part of the transport) becomes power law. Direct transmission over optical distance…

Optics · Physics 2021-07-13 Anthony B. Davis , Feng Xu

Recent results obtained by analyzing diffuse gamma-ray emission detected by Fermi-LAT show a substantial variation of the CR spectrum as a function of the distance from the Galactic Center. For energies up to tens of GeV, the CR proton…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-06-21 G. Morlino

A generalized anisotropic-diffusion framework is developed for transport problem in media described by a tensorial scattering coefficient and a scalar Henyey--Greenstein asymmetry factor. In this regime the classical similarity relation…

Optics · Physics 2026-02-24 Ernesto Pini , Michele Giusfredi , Lorenzo Pattelli

The transport of charged particles in various astrophysical environments permeated by magnetic fields is described in terms of a diffusion process, which relies on diffusion-tensor parameters generally inferred from Monte-Carlo simulations.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-12-09 Olivier Deligny

Context. Supernova remnants (SNRs) are thought to be the main source of Galactic cosmic rays (CRs) up to the "knee" in CR spectrum. During the evolution of a SNR, the bulk of the CRs are confined inside the SNR shell. The highest-energy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-03 I. Telezhinsky , V. V. Dwarkadas , M. Pohl

The propagation of high-energy cosmic rays through giant molecular clouds constitutes a fundamental process in astronomy and astrophysics. The diffusion of cosmic-rays through these magnetically turbulent environments is often studied…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-20 Marco Fatuzzo , Fulvio Melia , Elizabeth Todd , Fred Adams

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

Owing to the complexity of turbulent magnetic fields, modeling the diffusion of cosmic rays is challenging. Based on the current understanding of anisotropic magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence, we use test particles to examine the cosmic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-02-16 Yue Hu , A. Lazarian , Siyao Xu

Cosmic rays propagate through the Galaxy and encounter systems that may trap them temporarily, as well as magnetic field structures that induce chaotic behavior on their trajectories. In particular, this is the case for particles that…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-09 Vanessa López-Barquero , Paolo Desiati

We argue that the diffusion of cosmic rays in the Galactic magnetic field has to be strongly anisotropic. As a result, the number of CR sources contributing to the local CR flux is reduced by a factor $\sim 200$. The CR density is therefore…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-05-22 M. Kachelriess