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Galactic cosmic rays are a ubiquitous source of ionisation of the interstellar gas, competing with UV and X-ray photons as well as natural radioactivity in determining the fractional abundance of electrons, ions and charged dust grains in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-06-27 Marco Padovani , Alexei V. Ivlev , Daniele Galli , Paola Caselli

Cosmic rays (CRs) are ubiquitous in the interstellar medium (ISM) of nearby galaxies, but many of their properties are not well-constrained. Gamma-ray observations provide a powerful tool in this respect, allowing us to constrain both the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-07-19 Maria Werhahn , Philipp Girichidis , Christoph Pfrommer , Joseph Whittingham

Energy injection by supernovae may drive hot supersonic galactic winds in rapidly star-forming galaxies, driving metal-enriched gas into the circumgalactic medium and potentially accelerating cool gas. If sufficiently mass-loaded, such…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-04-28 Cassandra Lochhaas , Todd A. Thompson , Evan E. Schneider

Fluid approximations to cosmic ray (CR) transport are often preferred to kinetic descriptions in studies of the dynamics of the interstellar medium (ISM) of galaxies, because they allow simpler analytical and numerical treatments.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-06-04 L. F. S. Rodrigues , A. P. Snodin , G. R. Sarson , Anvar Shukurov

Galaxy-scale outflows of gas, or galactic winds (GWs), driven by energy from star formation are a pivotal mechanism for regulation of star formation in the current model of galaxy evolution. Observations of this phenomenon have proliferated…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-12-14 David S. N. Rupke

Galactic cosmic rays (CRs) are accelerated by astrophysical shocks, primarily supernova remnants (SNRs), via diffusive shock acceleration (DSA), an efficient mechanism that predicts power-law energy distributions of CRs. However,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-09-24 Rebecca Diesing , Damiano Caprioli

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

Observational implications are derived for two standard models of supernovae-driven galactic winds: a freely expanding steady-state wind and a wind sourced by a self-similarly expanding superbubble including thermal heat conduction. It is…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-07-27 Avery Meiksin

Star formation in galaxies appears to be self-regulated by energetic feedback processes. Among the most promising agents of feedback are cosmic rays (CRs), the relativistic ion population of interstellar and intergalactic plasmas. In these…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-01-30 Timon Thomas , Christoph Pfrommer

We examine the possibility that ram pressure exerted by the galactic wind from the Galaxy could have stripped gas from the Local Group dwarf galaxies, thereby affecting their star formation histories. Whether gas stripping occurs or not…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-13 H. Hirashita , H. Kamaya , S. Mineshige

We consider the thermal and non-thermal emission from the inner 200 pc of the Galaxy. The radiation from this almost star-burst-like region is ultimately driven dominantly by on-going massive star formation. We show that this region's radio…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-20 Roland M. Crocker , David I. Jones , Felix Aharonian , Casey J. Law , Fulvio Melia , Juergen Ott

Winds arising from galaxies, star clusters, and active galactic nuclei are crucial players in star and galaxy formation, but it has proven remarkably difficult to use observations of them to determine physical properties of interest,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-08-30 Mark R. Krumholz , Todd A. Thompson , Eve C. Ostriker , Crystal L. Martin

Galactic cosmic rays (CR) are particles presumably accelerated in supernova remnant shocks that propagate in the interstellar medium up to the densest parts of molecular clouds, losing energy and their ionisation efficiency because of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-05-25 M. Padovani , A. Marcowith , P. Hennebelle , K. Ferrière

The formation of galaxies is significantly influenced by galactic winds, possibly driven by cosmic rays due to their long cooling times and better coupling to plasma compared to radiation. In this study, we compare the radio observations of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-10-04 H. -H. Sandy Chiu , Mateusz Ruszkowski , Timon Thomas , Maria Werhahn , Christoph Pfrommer

Cosmic rays (CRs) play a pivotal role in shaping the thermal and dynamical properties of astrophysical environments, such as galaxies and galaxy clusters. Recent observations suggest a stronger confinement of CRs in certain astrophysical…

We investigate the effects of cosmic ray (CR) dynamics on cold, dense clouds embedded in a hot, tenuous galactic halo. If the magnetic field does not increase too much inside the cloud, the local reduction in Alfv\'en speed imposes a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-01-25 Joshua Wiener , S. Peng Oh , Ellen G. Zweibel

The coarse-grained propagation of Galactic cosmic rays (CRs) is traditionally constrained by phenomenological models of Milky Way CR propagation fit to a variety of direct and indirect observables; however, constraining the fine-grained…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-02-07 Chad Bustard , John Wu

Cosmic rays (CRs) are an integral part of the non-thermal pressure budget in the interstellar medium (ISM) and are the leading-order ionization mechanism in cold molecular clouds. We study the impacts that different microphysical CR…

Diffuse gamma-ray emission is a key tracer of cosmic rays (CRs) in galaxies, encoding information about their transport, energetics, and interactions with the interstellar medium. Interpreting the Milky Way gamma-ray sky is challenging…

We present new simulations of local star-forming disks that self-consistently evolve cosmic rays (CRs) and multiphase gas using TIGRESS++. To isolate the role of CRs, we conduct paired simulations under solar-neighborhood conditions: a…