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Cosmic rays up to at least PeV energies are usually described in the framework of an elementary scenario that involves acceleration by objects that are located in the disk of the Milky Way, such as supernova remnants or massive star-forming…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 L. Tibaldo , S. W. Digel

The propagation of gamma-rays over cosmological distances is the subject of extensive theoretical and observational research at GeV and TeV energies. The mean free path of gamma-rays in the cosmic web is limited above 100 GeV due to the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-11 J. Biteau , M. Meyer

We study the streaming instability of GeV$-100~$GeV cosmic rays (CRs) and its damping in the turbulent interstellar medium (ISM). We find that the damping of streaming instability is dominated by ion-neutral collisional damping in weakly…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-03-14 Siyao Xu , Alex Lazarian

Cosmic rays (CRs) are dynamically important for the formation and evolution of galaxies by regulating star formation and by powering galactic outflows. However, to what extent CRs regulate galaxy formation depends on the coupling strength…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-12-27 Philipp Girichidis , Maria Werhahn , Christoph Pfrommer , Rüdiger Pakmor , Volker Springel

Dynamically, cosmic rays with energies above about one GeV/nucleon may be important agents of galaxy evolution. Their pressures compare with the thermal and magnetic ones impacting galactic gas accretion, fountains and galactic outflows,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-05-18 A. Nuñez-Castiñeyra , I. A. Grenier , F. Bournaud , Y. Dubois , F. R. Kamal Youssef , P. Hennebelle

During the solar journey through galactic space, variations in the physical properties of the surrounding interstellar medium (ISM) modify the heliosphere and modulate the flux of galactic cosmic rays (GCR) at the surface of the Earth, with…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-20 Priscilla C. Frisch , Hans-Reinhard Mueller

Growing evidence reveals universal hardening on various cosmic ray spectra, e.g. proton, positron, as well as antiproton fraction. Such universality may indicate they have a common origin. In this paper, we argue that these widespread…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-08-02 Wei Liu , Xiao-Jun Bi , Su-Jie Lin , Bing-Bing Wang , Peng-Fei Yin

We study the effects that the diffusion of the cosmic rays in the magnetic field of the Local Supercluster can have on the spectrum of a nearby extragalactic source at ultrahigh energies. We find that the strong enhancement of the flux…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-05-22 Silvia Mollerach , Esteban Roulet

We briefly review the status of cosmic ray studies between $10^{14}$ eV and the highest observed energies, namely a few times $10^{20}$ eV. Because of the rather low incident fluxes in this energy range, the studies mostly rely on ground…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Murat Boratav , Alan A. Watson

Astrospheres and wind bubbles of massive stars are believed to be sources of cosmic rays with energies $E\lesssim 1\,$TeV. These particles are not directly detectable, but their impact on surrounding matter, in particular ionisation of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-08-11 Florian Schuppan , Christian Röken , Natalie Fedrau , Julia Becker Tjus

We investigate ionization and heating of gas in the dense, shielded clumps/cores of molecular clouds bathed by an influx of energetic, charged cosmic rays (CRs). These molecular clouds have complex structures, with substantial variation in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-06-02 Ellis R. Owen , Alvina Y. L. On , Shih-Ping Lai , Kinwah Wu

Galactic cosmic ray transport relies on the existence of turbulence on scales comparable with the gyration radius of the particles and with wavenumber vector oriented along the local magnetic field. In the standard picture, in which…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-12-29 O. Pezzi , P. Blasi

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

The transport of the nuclear cosmic ray flux in the atmosphere is studied and the atmospheric corrections to be applied to the measurements are calculated. The contribution of the calculated corrections to the accuracy of the experimental…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-06-19 A. Putze , L. Derome , D. Maurin , M. Buénerd

The propagation of TeV-PeV cosmic rays (CR) in our Galaxy can be described as a diffusive process. We discuss here two effects, with important observational consequences, that cannot be predicted by the diffusion approximation in its usual…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-12-01 G. Giacinti

Diffuse emission from the Milky Way dominates the gamma-ray sky. About 80% of the high-energy luminosity of the Milky Way comes from processes in the interstellar medium. The Galactic diffuse emission traces interactions of energetic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-02-25 T. A. Porter , S. W. Digel , I. A. Grenier , I. V. Moskalenko , A. W. Strong

Particle acceleration in the inner ~ 200 pc of the Galaxy is discussed, where diffuse TeV gamma-rays have been detected by the High Energy Stereoscopic System (HESS) observation. The diffuse gamma-ray emission has a strong correlation with…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-30 Takanobu Amano , Kazufumi Torii , Takahiro Hayakawa , Yasuo Fukui

We present our new model for the description of the very high energy Galactic gamma-ray emission based on a discrete injection of cosmic rays by individual sources. We investigate the morphology of the very high energy gamma-ray sky, the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-01-13 Samy Kaci , Gwenael Giacinti

In recent years, exciting developments have taken place in the identification of the role of cosmic rays in star-forming environments. Observations from radio to infrared wavelengths and theoretical modelling have shown that low-energy…

We study penetration of interstellar cosmic rays (CRs) into molecular clouds surrounded by nonuniform diffuse envelopes. The present work generalizes our earlier model of CR self-modulation (Ivlev et al. 2018, Dogiel et al. 2018), in which…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-07-08 D. O. Chernyshov , A. V. Ivlev , A. M. Kiselev