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A joint hadronic model is shown to quantitatively explain the observations of diffuse radio emission from galaxy clusters in the form of minihalos, giant halos, relics, and their hybrid, transitional stages. Cosmic-ray diffusion of order…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-11-16 Uri Keshet

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 ray propagation is diffusive because of pitch angle scattering by waves. We demonstrate that if the high-amplitude magnetohydrodynamic turbulence with $\tilde B/\langle B\rangle \sim 1$ is present on top of the mean field gradient,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-09-30 Mikhail V. Medvedev , Viktor V. Medvedev

NGC 4261 (3C 270) is a low-luminosity radio galaxy with two symmetric kiloparsec-scale jets. Earlier Hubble Space Telescope observations indicated the presence of a hundred-parsec scale disk of cool dust and gas surrounding a central,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Siming Liu , Michael J. Fromerth , Fulvio Melia

Fast radio bursts show large dispersion measures, much larger than the Galactic dispersion measure foreground. Therefore,they evidently have an extragalactic origin. We investigate possible contributions to the dispersion measure from host…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-09-17 Jun. Xu , J. L. Han

A detailed understanding of cosmic-ray transport in galactic halos is essential for explaining various observations, such as the radio continuum measurements of synchrotron radiation from energetic electrons. Of central importance is the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-07-14 J. Kleimann , H. Fichtner , M. Stein , R. -J. Dettmar , D. J. Bomans , S. Oughton

Magnetic fields are a good tracer for gas compression by shock waves, which can be caused by interaction of star-formation driven outflows from individual star formation sites as described in the chimney model. We study the magnetic field…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Volker Heesen , Rainer Beck , Marita Krause , Ralf-Jürgen Dettmar

We present the results of a study that simulates trajectories of ultra-high energy cosmic rays from Centaurus A to Earth, for particle rigidities from $E/Z = 2$ EV to 100 EV, i.e., covering the possibility of primary particles as heavy as…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-08-21 Azadeh Keivani , Glennys R. Farrar , Michael Sutherland

Adopting the convection-diffusion model for energetic electron and proton propagation, and accounting for all the relevant hadronic and leptonic processes, the steady-state energy distributions of these particles in the starburst galaxies…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-03-02 Massimo Persic , Yoel Rephaeli

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

A correct description of cosmic-ray (CR) diffusion in turbulent plasma is essential for many astrophysical and heliospheric problems. This paper aims to present physical diffusion behavior of CRs in actual turbulent magnetic fields, model…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-16 Siyao Xu , Huirong Yan

The structure of the cosmic ray electron halo of a starburst galaxy depends strongly on the nature of galactic wind and the configuration of the magnetic field. We have investigated these dependencies by solving numerically the propagation…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Shoko Miyake , Shohei Yanagita , Tatsuo Yoshida

We use high resolution IRAS and 20 cm radio continuum (RC) images of a sample of 22 spiral galaxies to study the correlation between the far infra-red (FIR) and RC emissions within the galactic disks. A combination of exponential and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Y. D. Mayya , T. N. Rengarajan

NGC 4631 is an interacting galaxy that exhibits one of the largest, gaseous halos observed among edge-on galaxies. We aim to examine the synchrotron and cosmic-ray propagation properties of its disk and halo emission with new radio…

Convection is ubiquitous in stellar and planetary interiors where it likely plays an integral role in the generation of magnetic fields. As the interiors of these objects remain hidden from direct observation, numerical models of convection…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-22 Brandon J. Lazard , Nicholas A. Featherstone , Jonathan M. Aurnou

The study of propagation of Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays (UHECR) is a key step in order to unveil the secret of their origin. Up to now it was considered only the influence of the galactic and the extragalactic magnetic fields. In this…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Pascal Chardonnet , Alvise Mattei

Starburst galaxies are undergoing intense episodes of star formation. In these galaxies, gas is ejected into the surrounding environment through winds created by the effect of hot stars and supernova explosions. When interacting with the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-03-12 C. A. Galante , J. Saponara , G. E. Romero , P. Benaglia

In order to better determine the large-scale 3D-structure of magnetic fields in spiral galaxies we present a Faraday rotation analysis of the edge-on spiral galaxy NGC 5775. Deep radio-continuum observations in total power and linear…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-28 Marian Soida , Marita Krause , Ralf-Jürgen Dettmar , Marek Urbanik

We phenomenologically developed a propagation model of high energy galactic cosmic rays. We derived the analytical solutions by adopting the semi-empirical diffusion equation, proposed by Berezinskii {\it et al.}(1990) and the diffusion…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-02-07 Hideyoshi Arakida , Shuichi Kuramata

This paper studies cosmic ray (CR) transport in magneto hydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence. CR transport is strongly dependent on the properties of the magnetic turbulence. We perform test particle simulations to study the interactions of CR…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-02-23 Snehanshu Maiti , Kirit Makwana , Heshou Zhang , Huirong Yan