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Energetic nonthermal particles (cosmic rays, CRs) are accelerated in supernova remnants, relativistic jets and other astrophysical objects. The CR energy density is typically comparable with that of the thermal components and magnetic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-15 A. M. Bykov , A. Brandenburg , M. A. Malkov , S. M. Osipov

Current-day cosmic ray (CR) propagation studies use static Milky-Way models and fit parametrized source distributions to data. Instead, we use three-dimensional magneto-hydrodynamical (MHD) simulations of isolated galaxies with the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-05-25 Maria Werhahn , Christoph Pfrommer , Philipp Girichidis , Ewald Puchwein , Rüdiger Pakmor

We explore the physics of the gyro-resonant cosmic ray streaming instability (CRSI) including the effects of ion-neutral (IN) damping. This is the main damping mechanism in (partially-ionized) atomic and molecular gas, which are the primary…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-06-16 Illya Plotnikov , Eve C. Ostriker , Xue-Ning Bai

Using an idealized set-up, we investigate the dynamical role of cosmic rays (CRs) in the early stages of galactic outflows for galaxies of halo masses $10^{8}$, $10^{11}$ and $10^{12}$ $M_\odot$. The outflow is launched from a central…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-08-04 Ranita Jana , Siddhartha Gupta , Biman B. Nath

We investigate the growth of hydromagnetic waves driven by streaming cosmic rays in the precursor environment of a supernova remnant shock. It is known that transverse waves propagating parallel to the mean magnetic field are unstable to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 B. Reville , J. G. Kirk , P. Duffy , S. O. Sullivan

Galactic cosmic rays (CRs) play a crucial role in galaxy formation and evolution by altering gas dynamics and chemistry across multiple scales. Typical numerical simulations of CR transport assume a constant diffusion coefficient for the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-10-16 Sarah Thiele , Romain Teyssier

We present a novel analytic framework to model the steady-state structure of multiphase galactic winds comprised of a hot, volume-filling component and a cold, clumpy component. We first derive general expressions for the structure of the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-01-19 Drummond B. Fielding , Greg L. Bryan

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

Context. Indirect observations of the cosmic-ray electron (CRE) distribution via synchrotron emission is crucial for deepening the understanding of the CRE transport in the interstellar medium, and in investigating the role of galactic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-01-24 Julien Dörner , Patick Reichherzer , Julia Becker Tjus , Volker Heesen

We study the nonlinear growth of kinetic gyroresonance instability of cosmic rays (CRs) induced by large scale compressible turbulence. This feedback of cosmic rays on turbulence was shown to induce an important scattering mechanism in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-03-28 Huirong Yan , A. Lazarian

We investigate the impact of cosmic rays (CRs) on the circumgalactic medium (CGM) in FIRE-2 simulations, for ultra-faint dwarf through Milky Way (MW)-mass halos hosting star-forming (SF) galaxies. Our CR treatment includes injection by…

An extinction-free estimator of the star-formation rate (SFR) of galaxies is critical for understanding the high-redshift universe. To this end, the nearly linear, tight correlation of far-infrared (FIR) and radio luminosity of star-forming…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-09-22 Maria Werhahn , Christoph Pfrommer , Philipp Girichidis

Cosmic ray (CR) hydrodynamics is a (re-)emerging field of high interest due to the importance of CRs for the dynamical evolution of the interstellar, the circumgalactic, and the intracluster medium. In these environments, CRs with GeV…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-11-03 Timon Thomas , Christoph Pfrommer

The properties of cosmic shock waves are studied through numerical simulations in two cosmological scenarios (SCDM and LCDM). The scaling relations for the average radius and velocity associated with the accretion shocks are somewhat…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Francesco Miniati , Dongsu Ryu , Hyesung Kang , T. W. Jones

We report first results of first global galactic-scale CR-MHD simulations of cosmic-ray-driven dynamo. We investigate the dynamics of magnetized interstellar medium (ISM), which is dynamically coupled with the cosmic-ray (CR) gas. We assume…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2009-11-05 Michał Hanasz , Dominik Wóltański , Kacper Kowalik

Using a multi-fluid approach, we investigate streaming and thermal instabilities of the electron-ion plasma with homogeneous cold cosmic rays propagating perpendicular to the background magnetic field. Perturbations are considered to be…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-19 Anatoly K. Nekrasov , Mohsen Shadmehri

We investigate the streaming and thermal instabilities of the electron-ion plasma with homogeneous cold cosmic rays drifting perpendicular to the background magnetic field in the multi-fluid approach. One-dimensional perturbations along the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2012-03-27 Anatoly K. Nekrasov , Mohsen Shadmehri

A cosmological hydrodynamic code is described, which includes a routine to compute cosmic ray acceleration and transport in a simplified way. The routine was designed to follow explicitly diffusive acceleration at shocks, and second-order…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Dongsu Ryu , Francesco Miniati , Tom W. Jones , Hyesung Kang

We present 2-D hydrodynamic simulation of rotating galactic winds driven by radiation. We study the structure and dynamics of the cool and/or warm component($T \simeq 10^4$ K) which is mixed with dust. We have taken into account the total…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-04 Indranil Chattopadhyay , Mahavir Sharma , Biman B. Nath , Dongsu Ryu

In order for diffusive shock acceleration (DSA) to accelerate particles to high energies, the energetic particles must be able to interact with magnetic turbulence over a broad wavelength range. The weakly anisotropic distribution of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-20 A. M. Bykov , S. M. Osipov , D. C. Ellison
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