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We study the linear properties, nonlinear saturation and a steady, strongly nonlinear state of the Parker instability in galaxies. We consider magnetic buoyancy and its consequences with and without cosmic rays. Cosmic rays are described…

Weakly collisional, magnetised plasmas characterised by anisotropic viscosity and conduction are ubiquitous in galaxies, halos and the intracluster medium (ICM). Cosmic rays (CRs) play an important role in these environments as well, by…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-03-04 Philipp Kempski , Eliot Quataert , Jonathan Squire

Cosmic rays are a fundamental source of ionization for molecular and diffuse clouds, influencing their chemical, thermal, and dynamical evolution. The amount of cosmic rays inside a cloud also determines the $\gamma$-ray flux produced by…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-09-18 G. Morlino , S. Gabici , J. Krause

Synchrotron radiation from cosmic rays is a key observational probe of the galactic magnetic field. Interpreting synchrotron emission data requires knowledge of the cosmic ray number density, which is often assumed to be in energy…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-12-06 Amit Seta , Anvar Shukurov , Toby S. Wood , Paul J. Bushby , Andrew P. Snodin

Recent advances in understanding of magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence call for revisions in the picture of cosmic ray transport. In this paper we use recently obtained scaling laws for MHD modes to obtain the scattering frequency for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Huirong Yan , A. Lazarian

The physics of energetic particle propagation in magnetised environments plays a crucial role in both the processes of acceleration and transport of cosmic rays. Recent theoretical developments in the field of cosmic ray research have been…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-10-31 Elena Amato , Pasquale Blasi

We consider the propagation of cosmic rays in turbulent magnetic fields. We use the models of magnetohydrodynamic turbulence that were tested in numerical simulations, in which the turbulence is injected on large scale and cascades to small…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Huirong Yan , A. Lazarian

We present a linear perturbation analysis of the magnetorotational instability in the presence of the cosmic rays. Dynamical effects of the cosmic rays are considered by a fluid description and the diffusion of cosmic rays is only along the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-30 Fazeleh Khajenabi

We consider anisotropic diffusion of Galactic cosmic rays in the Galactic magnetic field, using the Jansson-Farrar model for the field. In this paper we investigate the influence of source position on the cosmic ray flux at Earth in two…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-01-29 A. AL-Zetoun , A. Achterberg

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

The problem of the origin of cosmic rays in the shocks produced by supernova explosions at energies below the so called 'knee' (at ~3*10$^6$ GeV) in the energy spectrum is addressed, with special attention to the propagation of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 A. D. Erlykin , A. A. Lagutin , A. W. Wolfendale

The propagation of cosmic rays in turbulent magnetic fields is a diffusive process driven by the scattering of the charged particles by random magnetic fluctuations. Such fields are usually highly intermittent, consisting of intense…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-04-19 Anvar Shukurov , Andrew Snodin , Amit Seta , Paul Bushby , Toby Wood

Low energy galactic cosmic rays as well as particles accelerated to high energies either at the solar surface or in the interplanetary medium have access to the atmosphere above a given position on the Earth depending upon the state of the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2013-03-19 K. Kudela , R. Bucik

Cosmic rays (CRs) leave their sources mainly along the local magnetic field; in doing so they excite both resonant and nonresonant modes through streaming instabilities. The excitation of these modes leads to enhanced scattering and in turn…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-06-10 Benedikt Schroer , Oreste Pezzi , Damiano Caprioli , Colby Haggerty , Pasquale Blasi

The self-regulation of cosmic ray (CR) transport in the interstellar and intracluster media has long been viewed through the lenses of linear and quasilinear kinetic plasma physics. Such theories are believed to capture the essence of CR…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-09-04 Cole Holcomb , Anatoly Spitkovsky

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

Observations of $\gamma$-rays from diffuse gas provide the opportunity to study the distribution of high energy particles in different astrophysical environments. In the circumgalactic medium (CGM) and the intracluster medium (ICM), it is…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-10-29 Roark Habegger , Mateusz Ruszkowski , Ellen G. Zweibel

Streaming cosmic rays can power the exponential growth of a seed magnetic field by exciting a non-resonant instability that feeds on their bulk kinetic energy. By generating the necessary turbulent magnetic field, it is thought to play a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-03-28 Alexis Marret , Andrea Ciardi , Roch Smets , Julien Fuchs , Loic Nicolas

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

Cosmic ray anisotropy has been observed in a wide energy range and at different angular scales by a variety of experiments over the past decade. However, no comprehensive or satisfactory explanation has been put forth to date. The arrival…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-10-12 Vanessa López-Barquero , R. Farber , S. Xu , P. Desiati , A. Lazarian