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Models for cosmic ray (CR) dynamics fundamentally depend on the rate of CR scattering from magnetic fluctuations. In the ISM, for CRs with energies ~MeV-TeV, these fluctuations are usually attributed either to 'extrinsic turbulence' (ET) -…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-11-10 Philip F. Hopkins , Jonathan Squire , Iryna S. Butsky , Suoqing Ji

We use $1$D and $3$D two-fluid cosmic ray (CR) hydrodynamic simulations to investigate the role of CRs in the vicinity of a compact young star cluster. We model a self-gravitating cloud (density profile $\rho \propto r^{-1}$), include…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-08-08 Siddhartha Gupta , Biman B. Nath , Prateek Sharma

We use analytic calculations and time-dependent spherically-symmetric simulations to study the properties of isothermal galactic winds driven by cosmic-rays (CRs) streaming at the Alfv\'en velocity. The simulations produce time-dependent…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-11-24 Eliot Quataert , Yan-Fei Jiang , Todd A. Thompson

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

Low-energy cosmic rays (CRs) are confined by self-generated MHD waves in the mostly neutral ISM. We show that the CR transport equation can be expressed as a continuity equation for the CR number density involving an effective convection…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Paolo Padoan , John Scalo

Latest precise cosmic-ray (CR) measurements and present gamma-ray observations have started challenging our understanding of CR transport and interaction in the Galaxy. Moreover, because the density of CRs is similar to the density of the…

Cosmic rays (CRs) are transported out of the galaxy by diffusion and advection due to streaming along magnetic field lines and resonant scattering off self-excited Magneto-Hydro-Dynamic (MHD) waves. Thus momentum is transferred to the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-10-02 E. A. Dorfi , D. Steiner , F. Ragossnig , D. Breitschwerdt

Cosmic rays (CRs) are known to play a key role in many astrophysical environments: they can modify shock dynamics, influence the thermochemistry and the ionization of the interstellar medium, regulate galaxy mass content by driving galactic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-25 Nimatou-Seydi Diallo , Yohan Dubois , Alexandre Marcowith , Joki Rosdahl , Benoît Commerçon

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

Thanks to space-borne experiments of cosmic-ray (CR) detection, such as the AMS and PAMELA missions in low-Earth orbit, or the Voyager-1 spacecraft in the interstellar space, a large collection of multi-channel and time-resolved CR data has…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-07-01 Nicola Tomassetti , Fernando Barão , Bruna Bertucci , Emanuele Fiandrini , Miguel Orcinha

We investigate how cosmic ray (CR) transport in molecular clouds and their substructures can be probed using multi-wavelength observations. The detailed microphysics regulating the penetration and coupling of CRs in dense molecular…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-19 Hayden P. H. Ng , Ellis R. Owen , Naomi Tsuji , Szu-Ting Chen

The bulk propagation speed of GeV-energy cosmic rays is limited by frequent scattering off hydromagnetic waves. Most galaxy evolution simulations that account for this confinement assume the gas is fully ionized and cosmic rays are…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-06-09 Chad Bustard , Ellen G. Zweibel

Many recent numerical studies have argued that cosmic rays (CRs) from supernovae (SNe) or active galactic nuclei (AGN) could play a crucial role in galaxy formation, in particular by establishing a CR-pressure dominated circum-galactic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-08-29 Philip F. Hopkins , Iryna S. Butsky , Suoqing Ji , Dusan Keres

The observed bimodality in radio luminosity in galaxy clusters is puzzling. We investigate the possibility that cosmic-ray (CR) streaming in the intra-cluster medium can 'switch off' hadronically induced radio and gamma-ray emission. For…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-15 Joshua Wiener , S Peng Oh , Fulai Guo

Astrophysical plasmas are turbulent and magnetized. The interaction between cosmic rays (CRs) and magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence is a fundamental astrophysical process. Based on the current understanding of MHD turbulence, we revisit…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-05-13 Siyao Xu , Alex Lazarian

We present the implementation and the first results of cosmic ray (CR) feedback in the Feedback In Realistic Environments (FIRE) simulations. We investigate CR feedback in non-cosmological simulations of dwarf, sub-$L\star$ starburst, and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-09-04 T. K. Chan , D. Keres , P. F. Hopkins , E. Quataert , K. -Y. Su , C. C. Hayward , C. -A. Faucher-Giguere

The gyro-resonant cosmic-ray (CR) streaming instability is believed to play a crucial role in CR transport, leading to growth of Alfv\'en waves at small scales that scatter CRs, and impacts the interaction of CRs with the ISM on large…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-05-15 Xue-Ning Bai , Eve C. Ostriker , Illya Plotnikov , James M. Stone

We investigate a mechanism for accelerating cool (10$^4$ K) clouds in the circumgalactic medium (CGM) with cosmic rays (CRs), possibly explaining some characteristics of observed high velocity clouds (HVCs). Enforcing CRs to stream down…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-07-31 Joshua Wiener , Ellen G. Zweibel , Mateusz Ruszkowski

Cosmic ray propagation is determined by the properties of interstellar turbulence. The multiphase nature of interstellar medium (ISM) and diversity of driving mechanisms give rise to spatial variation of turbulence properties. Meanwhile,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-09-21 Huirong Yan

The microphysics of ~GeV cosmic ray (CR) transport on galactic scales remain deeply uncertain, with almost all studies adopting simple prescriptions (e.g. constant-diffusivity). We explore different physically-motivated, anisotropic,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-03-18 Philip F. Hopkins , Jonathan Squire , T. K. Chan , Eliot Quataert , Suoqing Ji , Dusan Keres , Claude-Andre Faucher-Giguere