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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

Recent advances on gamma-ray observations from SuperNova Remnants and Molecular Clouds offer the possibility to study in detail the properties of the propagation of escaping Cosmic Rays (CR). However, a complete theory for CR transport…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-09-09 Lara Nava , Stefano Gabici , Alexandre Marcowith , Giovanni Morlino , Vladimir Ptuskin

A correct description of cosmic-ray (CR) diffusion in turbulent plasma is essential for many astrophysical and heliospheric problems. This paper aims to present physical diffusion behavior of CRs in actual turbulent magnetic fields, model…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-16 Siyao Xu , Huirong Yan

Numerical simulations shed light onto earlier not trackable problem of magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence. They allowed to test the predictions of different models and choose the correct ones. Inevitably, this progress calls for revisions…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-12-27 Huirong Yan , A. Lazarian

We have developed a model which aims to reproduce observational data of many kinds related to cosmic-ray (CR) origin and propagation: direct measurements of nuclei, antiprotons, electrons and positrons, gamma-rays, and synchrotron…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 I. V. Moskalenko , A. W. Strong

We propose a brand-new formalism for the propagation of relativistic cosmic ray (CR) particles. The propagation of CRs has often been described using the diffusion approximation, which has the drawback that the propagation speed of CRs near…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-05-22 Norita Kawanaka , Rohta Takahashi

We study diffusion of Cosmic Rays (CRs) in turbulent magnetic fields using test particle simulations. Electromagnetic fields are produced in direct numerical MHD simulations of turbulence and used as an input for particle tracing, particle…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-18 A. Beresnyak , H. Yan , A. Lazarian

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

Propagation of cosmic rays (CRs) in turbulent and magnetized astrophysical media is a long-standing problem that requires both understanding of the properties of turbulent magnetic fields and their interaction with energetic particles. This…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-04-07 Alex Lazarian , Siyao Xu , Yue Hu

Non-thermal emission from relativistic Cosmic Ray (CR) electrons gives insight into the strength and morphology of intra-cluster magnetic fields, as well as providing powerful tracers of structure formation shocks. Emission caused by CR…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-03-21 Ludwig M. Böss , Ulrich P. Steinwandel , Klaus Dolag , Harald Lesch

Anisotropic diffusion is imperative in understanding cosmic ray diffusion across the Galaxy, the heliosphere, and the interplay of cosmic rays with the Galactic magnetic field. This diffusion term contributes to the highly stiff nature of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-09 Pranab J. Deka , Ralf Kissmann , Lukas Einkemmer

Cosmic rays (CRs) have recently re-emerged as attractive candidates for mediating feedback in galaxies because of their long cooling timescales. They can have energy densities comparable to the thermal gas, but do not suffer catastrophic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-01-25 Joshua Wiener , Christoph Pfrommer , S. Peng Oh

The spectrum and morphology of the diffuse Galactic gamma-ray emission carries valuable information on cosmic ray (CR) propagation. Recent results obtained by analyzing Fermi-LAT data accumulated over seven years of observation show a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-08-05 S. Recchia , P. Blasi , G. Morlino

Particle acceleration by turbulence plays a role in many astrophysical environments. The non- linear evolution of the underlying cosmic-ray spectrum is complex and can be described by a Fokker-Planck equation, which in general has to be…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Julius Donnert , Gianfranco Brunetti

Phenomenological models of cosmic-ray (CR) transport in the Milky Way (MW) can reproduce a wide range of observations assuming that CRs scatter off of magnetic-field fluctuations with spectrum $\propto k^{-\delta}$ and $\delta \sim…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-06-15 Philipp Kempski , Eliot Quataert

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

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

Cosmic ray propagation in the Galaxy is shortly reviewed. In particular we consider the self-consistent models of CR propagation. In these models CR streaming instability driven by CR anisotropy results in the Alfv\'enic turbulence which in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-23 V. N. Zirakashvili

The physics of cosmic rays (CR) is a promising candidate for explaining the driving of galactic winds and outflows. Recent galaxy formation simulations have demonstrated the need for active CR transport either in the form of diffusion or…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-07-19 Ruediger Pakmor , Christoph Pfrommer , Christine M. Simpson , Volker Springel

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…