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Galactic winds shape the stellar, gas, and metal content of galaxies. To quantify their impact, we must understand their physics. We review potential wind-driving mechanisms and observed wind properties, with a focus on the warm ionized and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-06-21 Todd A. Thompson , Timothy M. Heckman

In the Milky Way, cosmic rays (CRs) are dynamically important in the interstellar medium, contribute to hydrostatic balance, and may help regulate star formation. However, we know far less about the importance of CRs in galaxies whose gas…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-01-27 Roland M. Crocker , Mark R. Krumholz , Todd A. Thompson

Cosmic rays (CRs) have recently re-emerged as attractive candidates for mediating feedback in galaxies because of their long cooling timescales. They can have energy densities comparable to the thermal gas, but do not suffer catastrophic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-01-25 Joshua Wiener , Christoph Pfrommer , S. Peng Oh

Cosmic rays are the main agents in controlling the chemical evolution and setting the ambipolar diffusion time of a molecular cloud. We summarise the processes causing the energy degradation of cosmic rays due to their interaction with…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-06-11 Marco Padovani , Patrick Hennebelle , Daniele Galli

Cosmic rays have been shown to be extremely important in the dynamics of diffuse gas in galaxies, helping to maintain hydrostatic equilibrium, and serving as a regulating force in star formation. In this paper, we address the influence of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-12-21 Evan Heintz , Ellen Zweibel

Cosmic ray pressure gradients transfer energy and momentum to extraplanar gas in disk galaxies, potentially driving significant mass loss as galactic winds. This may be particularly important for launching high-velocity outflows of "cool"…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-02-28 S. Alwin Mao , Eve C. Ostriker

Continuum gamma-ray emission produced by interactions of cosmic rays with interstellar matter and radiation fields is a probe of non-thermal particle populations in galaxies. After decades of continuous improvements in experimental…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-05-12 Luigi Tibaldo , Daniele Gaggero , Pierrick Martin

This study explores the dynamical impact of cosmic rays (CRs) in Milky Way-like galaxies using the Rhea simulation suite. Cosmic rays, with their substantial energy density, influence the interstellar medium (ISM) by supporting galactic…

Understanding the physical mechanisms that control galaxy formation is a fundamental challenge in contemporary astrophysics. Recent advances in the field of astrophysical feedback strongly suggest that cosmic rays (CRs) may be crucially…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-10-10 Mateusz Ruszkowski , Christoph Pfrommer

The diffusive paradigm for the transport of Galactic cosmic rays is central to our understanding of the origin of these high energy particles. However, it is worth recalling that the normalization, energy dependence, and spatial extent of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-07-11 Carmelo Evoli , Pasquale Blasi , Giovanni Morlino , Roberto Aloisio

The origin of the ultrahigh energy cosmic ray remains being a mystery. However, a considerable progress has been made in the past few years due to the good quality data recorded by current cosmic ray observatories. One of the recent…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-04-28 A. D. Supanitsky

The problem of the origin of Cosmic Rays is now over a century old and while there has been substantial progress, especially in the last decade, there are still open questions. The question of "origin" is open to at least three possible…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-12-04 Luke O'C. Drury

The search for the origin of cosmic rays is a quest of almost a hundred years. A recent theoretical proposal gives quantitative predictions, which can be tested with data. Specifically, it has been suggested, that all cosmic rays can be…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Peter L. Biermann

Galaxies at high redshifts with strong star formation are sources of high-energy cosmic rays. These cosmic rays interact with the baryon and radiation fields of the galactic environment via photo-pair, photo-pion and proton-proton processes…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-08-24 Ellis R. Owen , Kinwah Wu , Pooja Surajbali , Idunn B. Jacobsen

A short overview is presented of current issues concerning the production and evolution of Li, Be and B in the Milky Way. In particular, the observed "primary-like" evolution of Be is re-assessed in the light of a novel idea: it is argued…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-18 Nikos Prantzos

Cosmic rays are transported out of the galaxy by diffusion and advection due to streaming along magnetic field lines and resonant scattering off self-excited MHD waves. Thus momentum is transferred to the plasma via the frozen-in waves as a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-04-05 E. A. Dorfi , D. Breitschwerdt

Among the most puzzling questions in climate change is that of solar-climate variability, which has attracted the attention of scientists for more than two centuries. Until recently, even the existence of solar-climate variability has been…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2011-08-31 Jasper Kirkby

Galactic cosmic rays are energetic particles important in the context of life. Many works have investigated the propagation of Galactic cosmic rays through the Sun's heliosphere. However, the cosmic ray fluxes in M dwarf systems are still…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-09 A. L. Mesquita , D. Rodgers-Lee , A. A. Vidotto

Most of the visible matter in the Universe is ionized, so that cosmic magnetic fields are quite easy to generate and due to the lack of magnetic monopoles hard to destroy. Magnetic fields have been measured in or around practically all…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-10-06 Rainer Beck , Richard Wielebinski

We present initial results from our new two-dimensional (radius and latitude), self-consistent model of galactic cosmic rays in the heliosphere. We focus on the latitudinal variations in the solar wind flow caused by the energetic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 V. Florinski , J. R. Jokipii