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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

The propagation of cosmic rays (CRs) in turbulent interstellar magnetic fields is typically described as a spatial diffusion process. This formalism predicts only a small deviation from an isotropic CR distribution in the form of a dipole…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-01-22 Markus Ahlers

We introduce a novel diffusion model for the propagation of cosmic rays (CRs) that incorporates an anisotropic diffusion tensor of a general form within a realistically modeled large-scale Galactic magnetic field. The parameters of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-22 V. D. Borisov , V. O. Yurovsky , I. A. Kudryashov

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

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

Propagation of cosmic rays (CRs) in turbulent and magnetized astrophysical media is a long-standing problem that requires both understanding of the properties of turbulent magnetic fields and their interaction with energetic particles. This…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-04-07 Alex Lazarian , Siyao Xu , Yue Hu

The diffusion of cosmic rays (CRs) in turbulent magnetic fields is fundamental to understand various astrophysical processes. We explore the CR diffusion in the magnetic fluctuations amplified by the nonlinear turbulent dynamo, in the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-12-03 Chao Zhang , Siyao Xu

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

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 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

Cosmic rays (CRs) may be used to infer properties of intervening cosmic magnetic fields. Conversely, understanding the effects of magnetic fields on the propagation of high-energy CRs is crucial to elucidate their origin. In the present…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-11-08 R. Alves Batista , E. M. de Gouveia Dal Pino , K. Dolag , S. Hussain

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

Analyses of TeV-PeV cosmic ray (CR) diffusion around their sources usually assume either isotropic diffusion or anisotropic diffusion due to the regular Galactic magnetic field. We show that none of them are adequate on distances smaller…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-07-29 G. Giacinti , M. Kachelriess , D. V. Semikoz

In the standard picture of cosmic ray transport the propagation of charged cosmic rays through turbulent magnetic fields is described as a random walk with cosmic rays scattering on magnetic field turbulence. This is in good agreement with…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-07-08 Marco Kuhlen , Philipp Mertsch , Vo Hong Minh Phan

We constrain the energy at which the transition from Galactic to extragalactic cosmic rays occurs by computing the anisotropy at Earth of cosmic rays emitted by Galactic sources. Since the diffusion approximation starts to loose its…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-07-17 G. Giacinti , M. Kachelriess , D. V. Semikoz , G. Sigl

We investigate the diffusion of cosmic rays (CR) close to their sources. Propagating individual CRs in purely isotropic turbulent magnetic fields with maximal scale of spatial variations Lmax, we find that CRs diffuse anisotropically at…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-06-29 G. Giacinti , M. Kachelriess , D. V. Semikoz

We discuss some aspects of the propagation of high-energy cosmic rays (CRs) in turbulent magnetic fields, and propose a formula for the diffusion coefficient based on accurate simulations in a wide energy range. We discuss the transition…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Etienne Parizot

We revisit propagation of galactic cosmic rays (CRs) in light of recent advances in CR diffusion theory in realistic interstellar turbulence. We use a tested model of turbulence in which it has been shown that fast modes dominate scattering…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-17 Carmelo Evoli , Huirong Yan

Cosmic rays (CRs) and magnetic fields may be dynamically important in driving large-scale galactic outflows from rapidly star-forming galaxies. We construct two-dimensional axisymmetric models of the local starburst and super-wind galaxy…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-04-29 Benjamin J. Buckman , Tim Linden , Todd A. Thompson

We determine numerically the parallel, perpendicular, and antisymmetric diffusion coefficients for charged particles propagating in highly turbulent magnetic fields, by means of extensive Monte Carlo simulations. We propose simple…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-13 Julián Candia , Esteban Roulet
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