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Using hybrid simulations (kinetic ions--fluid electrons), we test the linear theory predictions of the cosmic ray (CR) streaming instability. We consider two types of CR distribution functions: a "hot" distribution where CRs are represented…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-09-16 Colby Haggerty , Damiano Caprioli , Ellen Zweibel

We present results of time evolution of oblique MHD plane shocks including diffusive cosmic ray acceleration with backreaction on the plasma flows. The simulations include self-consistent effects of finite Alfven wave propagation and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-06-13 P. P. Edmon , T. W. Jones , H. Kang

Multichannel Cosmic Ray (CR) spectra and the large scale CR anisotropy can hardly be made compatible in the framework of conventional isotropic and homogeneous propagation models. These models also have problems explaining the longitude…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-06-13 Carmelo Evoli , Daniele Gaggero , Dario Grasso , Luca Maccione

While it is well-known that cosmic rays (CRs) can gain energy from turbulence via second order Fermi acceleration, how this energy transfer affects the turbulent cascade remains largely unexplored. Here, we show that damping and steepening…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-15 Chad Bustard , S. Peng Oh

Cosmic rays (CRs) are tracers of solar events when they are associated with solar flares, but also galactic events when they come from outside our solar system. SEPs are correlated with the 11-year solar cycle while GCRs are anti-correlated…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-06 Barbara Perri , Allan Sacha Brun , Antoine Strugarek , Victor Réville

Cosmic rays (CRs) are thought to play an important role in galaxy evolution. We study their effect when coupled to other important sources of feedback, namely supernovae and stellar radiation, by including CR anisotropic diffusion and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-05-27 Marion Farcy , Joakim Rosdahl , Yohan Dubois , Jérémy Blaizot , Sergio Martin-Alvarez

Cosmic rays (CRs) and magnetic fields may be dynamically important in driving large-scale galactic outflows from rapidly star-forming galaxies. We construct two-dimensional axisymmetric models of the local starburst and super-wind galaxy…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-04-29 Benjamin J. Buckman , Tim Linden , Todd A. Thompson

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

We discuss new methods to integrate the cosmic ray (CR) evolution equations coupled to magneto-hydrodynamics (MHD) on an unstructured moving mesh, as realised in the massively parallel AREPO code for cosmological simulations. We account for…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-01-11 C. Pfrommer , R. Pakmor , K. Schaal , C. M. Simpson , V. Springel

When a magnetised, thermal plasma containing a shock wave efficiently accelerates Cosmic Rays (CR) a reaction is exerted on the fluid structure. The simplest description of this process involves three conservation equations for the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 P. Duffy , L. O'C. Drury , H. J. Voelk

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

Dynamically, cosmic rays with energies above about one GeV/nucleon may be important agents of galaxy evolution. Their pressures compare with the thermal and magnetic ones impacting galactic gas accretion, fountains and galactic outflows,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-05-18 A. Nuñez-Castiñeyra , I. A. Grenier , F. Bournaud , Y. Dubois , F. R. Kamal Youssef , P. Hennebelle

The propagation of cosmic rays can be described as a diffusive motion in most galactic environments. High-energy gamma-rays measured by Fermi have allowed inference of a gradient in the cosmic-ray density and spectral energy behavior in the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-10-14 J. Dörner , P. Reichherzer , L. Merten , J. Becker Tjus , H. Fichtner , M. J. Pueschel , E. G. Zweibel

Measurements of solar wind turbulence reveal the ubiquity of discontinuities. In this study, we investigate how the discontinuities, especially rotational discontinuities (RDs), are formed in magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence. In a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-09 Liping Yang , Lei Zhang , Jiansen He , Chuanyi Tu , Linghua Wang , Eckart Marsch , Xin Wang , Shaohua Zhang , Xueshang Feng

We study the capability of low-energy cosmic rays (CR) to penetrate into diffuse clouds when they move from the hot ionized plasma to a cool cloud embedded in that plasma. The spectrum of CR inside a cloud can be remarkably different from…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-10-30 Giovanni Morlino , Stefano Gabici

Cosmic rays (CRs) are a plausible mechanism for launching winds of cool material from the discs of star-forming galaxies. However, there is no consensus on what types of galaxies likely host CR-driven winds, or what role these winds might…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-03-03 Roland M. Crocker , Mark R. Krumholz , Todd A. Thompson

Galactic cosmic rays (CRs) are a fundamental non-thermal component of the interstellar medium (ISM). Understanding the transport of super-high-energy particles is essential for interpreting observations of Galactic PeVatrons. Classical…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-07 Yue Hu

We introduce a static toy model of the cosmic ray (CR) universe in which cosmic ray propagation is taken to be diffusive and cosmic ray sources are distributed randomly with a density the same as that of local L* galaxies, $5 \times…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-10-29 Roger Clay , Roland M. Crocker

Within the classical convection--diffusion approximation, we show that the angular distribution of cosmic rays (CRs) in a highly turbulent flow may exhibit significant small-scale anisotropies. The CR intensity angular power spectrum $…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-02-27 Yiran Zhang , Siming Liu

Cosmological MHD simulations of galaxy cluster formation show a significant amplification of seed magnetic fields. We developed a novel method to decompose cluster magnetized turbulence into modes and showed that the fraction of the fast…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-12 Andrey Beresnyak , Hao Xu , Hui Li , Reinhard Schlickeiser