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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

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…

Galactic winds regulate star formation in disk galaxies and help to enrich the circum-galactic medium. They are therefore crucial for galaxy formation, but their driving mechanism is still poorly understood. Recent studies have demonstrated…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-01-31 Svenja Jacob , Rüdiger Pakmor , Christine M. Simpson , Volker Springel , Christoph Pfrommer

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

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…

We investigate the impact of cosmic rays (CRs) on galactic outflows from a multi-phase interstellar medium with solar neighbourhood conditions. The three-dimensional magneto-hydrodynamical simulations include CRs as a relativistic fluid in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-07-11 Philipp Girichidis , Thorsten Naab , Michał Hanasz , Stefanie Walch

Cosmic ray (CR) feedback is critical for galaxy formation as CRs drive galactic winds, regularize star formation in galaxies, and escape from active galactic nuclei to heat the cooling cores of galaxy clusters. The feedback strength of CRs…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-06-10 Rouven Lemmerz , Mohamad Shalaby , Christoph Pfrommer , Timon Thomas

The role of cosmic rays generated by supernovae and young stars has very recently begun to receive significant attention in studies of galaxy formation and evolution due to the realization that cosmic rays can efficiently accelerate…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-04-11 R. Farber , M. Ruszkowski , H. -Y. K. Yang , E. G. Zweibel

Cosmic rays (CRs) are thought to play a dynamically important role in several key aspects of galaxy evolution, including the structure of the interstellar medium, the formation of galactic winds, and the non-thermal pressure support of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-11-19 Yohan Dubois , Benoît Commerçon , Alexandre Marcowith , Loann Brahimi

It is well known that cosmic rays (CRs) contribute significantly to the pressure of the interstellar medium in our own Galaxy, suggesting that they may play an important role in regulating star formation during the formation and evolution…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Martin Jubelgas , Volker Springel , Torsten A. Ensslin , Christoph Pfrommer

Galactic-scale winds are a generic feature of massive galaxies with high star formation rates across a broad range of redshifts. Despite their importance, a detailed physical understanding of what drives these mass-loaded global flows has…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Munier Salem , Greg L. Bryan

We study the propagation of mildly-relativistic cosmic rays (CRs) in multiphase interstellar medium environments with conditions typical of nearby disk galaxies. We employ the techniques developed in Armillotta+21 to post-process three…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-05-04 Lucia Armillotta , Eve C. Ostriker , Yan-Fei Jiang

Cosmic rays (CRs) are a dynamically important component of the interstellar medium (ISM) of galaxies. The $\sim$GeV CRs that carry most CR energy and pressure are likely confined by self-generated turbulence, leading them to stream along…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-11-16 Matt L. Sampson , James R. Beattie , Mark R. Krumholz , Roland M. Crocker , Christoph Federrath , Amit Seta

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

Heating of virialized gas by streaming cosmic rays (CRs) may be energetically important in galaxy halos, groups and clusters. We present a linear thermal stability analysis of plasmas heated by streaming CRs. We separately treat equilibria…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-02-24 Philipp Kempski , Eliot Quataert

We study transport of GeV cosmic rays (CRs) in a set of high-resolution TIGRESS magnetohydrodynamic simulations of the star-forming interstellar medium (ISM). Our local disk patch models sample a wide range of gas surface densities,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-09-04 Ronan Hix , Lucia Armillotta , Eve Ostriker , Chang-Goo Kim

We study the streaming instability of GeV$-100~$GeV cosmic rays (CRs) and its damping in the turbulent interstellar medium (ISM). We find that the damping of streaming instability is dominated by ion-neutral collisional damping in weakly…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-03-14 Siyao Xu , Alex Lazarian

The majority of galactic baryons reside outside of the galactic disk in the diffuse gas known as the circumgalactic medium (CGM). While state-of-the art simulations excel at reproducing galactic disk properties, many struggle to drive…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-12-05 Iryna Butsky , Thomas R. Quinn

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

We present semi-analytical models of galactic outflows in high redshift galaxies driven by both hot thermal gas and non-thermal cosmic rays. Thermal pressure alone may not sustain a large scale outflow in low mass galaxies (i.e $M\sim…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-02-21 Saumyadip Samui , Kandaswamy Subramanian , Raghunathan Srianand