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The spatial diffusion of energetic particles in a magnetic field composed of a large-scale background and a small-scale turbulent component should be expected to be anisotropic. While such anisotropic diffusion has been known for quite a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-17 Julien Dörner , Jonas Hellrung , Julia Becker Tjus , Horst Fichtner

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 diffuse TeV emission detected from the inner $\sim2^\circ$ of the Galaxy appears to be strongly correlated with the distribution of molecular gas along the Galactic ridge. Although it is not yet entirely clear whether the origin of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-20 Fulvio Melia , Marco Fatuzzo

Detecting and characterizing the anisotropy pattern of the arrival directions of the highest energy cosmic rays are crucial steps towards the identification of their sources. We discuss a possible distortion of the cosmic ray flux induced…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-27 Sihem Kalli , Martin Lemoine , Kumiko Kotera

Motivated by the ~7 % dipole anisotropy in the distribution of ultra-high energy cosmic-rays (UHECRs) above 8 EeV, we explore the anisotropy induced by the large scale structure, using constrained simulations of the local Universe and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-01-23 Noémie Globus , Tsvi Piran , Yehuda Hoffman , Edoardo Carlesi , Daniel Pomarède

Cosmic rays (CRs) are tracers of solar events when they are associated with solar flares, but also galactic events when they come from outside our solar system. SEPs are correlated with the 11-year solar cycle while GCRs are anti-correlated…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-06 Barbara Perri , Allan Sacha Brun , Antoine Strugarek , Victor Réville

The magnetic field of the Solar corona is difficult to measure directly. However, indirect observations of the solar corona are possible using the deficit in flux of cosmic rays coming from the direction of the Sun. Low-energy cosmic rays…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-13 O. Enriquez , A. Lara

The existence of the cosmic ray Halo in our Galaxy has been discussed for more than half a century. If it is real it could help to explain some puzzling features of the cosmic ray flux: its small radial gradient, nearly perfect isotropy and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-19 Anatoly Erlykin , Arnold Wolfendale

From the analysis of AGASA data above $4 \times 10^{19}$ eV, we show that the ultra-high energy cosmic rays flux is neither purely isotropic, nor reflects the expected anisotropy from a pure source distribution that maps large scale…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Gustavo Medina-Tanco

We calculate the arrival direction distribution of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) with a new suite of models of the Galactic magnetic field (GMF), assuming sources follow the large-scale structure of the Universe. Compared to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-11-06 Teresa Bister , Glennys R. Farrar , Michael Unger

The standard way to model the cosmic ray solar modulations is via the Parker equation, that is as the effect of diffusion in the turbulent magnetic of an expanding solar wind. Calculations performed with this method that do not include a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-08-05 Paolo Lipari

Cosmic rays in the inner solar system are subject to deflection by both the geomagnetic and interplanetary magnetic fields, and simultaneously interact with the Sun's photosphere resulting in the production of gamma rays. This phenomenon…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-08-15 Mehr Un Nisa

The growth of magneto-hydrodynamic fluctuations relevant to cosmic ray confinement in and near their sources, and the effects of local plasma conditions is revisited. We consider cases where cosmic rays penetrate a medium which may contain…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-02-10 B. Reville , G. Giacinti , R. Scott

Recently, Zhang & Liu (2024) proposed a turbulent convection model for multiscale anisotropies of cosmic rays (CRs), with an assumption of isotropic diffusion such that the anisotropies are statistically isotropic. However, this assumption…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-06-26 Yiran Zhang , Siming Liu

The differential intensities of Cosmic Rays at Earth were calculated using a 2D stochastic Montecarlo diffusion code and compared with observation data. We evaluated the effect of stretched and compressed heliospheres on the Cosmic Ray…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-23 P. Bobik , M. J. Boschini , C. Consolandi , S. Della Torre , M. Gervasi , D. Grandi , K. Kudela , F. Noventa , S. Pensotti , P. G. Rancoita , D. Rozza

The problem of cosmic-ray scattering in the turbulent electromagnetic fields of the interstellar medium and the solar wind is of great importance due to the variety of applications of the resulting diffusion coefficients. Examples are…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-20 R. C. Tautz

We simulate the propagation of cosmic rays at ultra-high energies, $\gtrsim 10^{18}$ eV, in models of extragalactic magnetic fields in constrained simulations of the local Universe. We investigate the impact of different magneto-genesis…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-02-13 Stefan Hackstein , Franco Vazza , Marcus Brüggen , Jenny G. Sorce , Stefan Gottlöber

The solar modulation effect of cosmic rays in the heliosphere is an energy-, time-, and particle-dependent phenomenon which arises from a combination of basic particle transport processes such as diffusion, convection, adiabatic cooling,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-07-31 Nicola Tomassetti , Miguel Orcinha , Fernando Barao , Bruna Bertucci

The spectral hardenings of cosmic ray nuclei above $\sim 200$ GV followed by softenings around 10 TV, the knee of the all-particle spectrum around PeV energies, as well as the pattern change of the amplitude and phase of the large-scale…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-12-13 Bing-Qiang Qiao , Wei Liu , Yi-Qing Guo , Qiang Yuan

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