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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 investigate the dynamical interaction between cosmic rays (CRs) and the multiphase interstellar medium (ISM) using numerical magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations with a two-moment CR solver and TIGRESS simulations of star-forming…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-01-10 Lucia Armillotta , Eve C. Ostriker , Chang-Goo Kim , Yan-Fei Jiang

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

We investigate the transport of spectrally resolved cosmic ray (CR) protons with kinetic energies between $1-100$ GeV within the dynamic, multiphase interstellar medium (ISM), using a two-moment CR fluid solver applied to a TIGRESS MHD…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-02 Lucia Armillotta , Eve C. Ostriker , Nora B. Linzer

Feedback mediated by cosmic rays (CRs) is an important process in galaxy formation. Because CRs are long-lived and because they are transported along magnetic field lines independently of any gas flow, they can efficiently distribute their…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-03-24 Timon Thomas , Christoph Pfrommer , Rüdiger Pakmor

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…

Cosmic rays (CRs) have critical impacts in the multiphase interstellar medium (ISM), driving dynamical motions in low-density plasma and modifying the ionization state, temperature, and chemical composition of higher-density atomic and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-02-23 Christopher J. Bambic , Xue-Ning Bai , Eve C. Ostriker

Cosmic rays (CRs) with ~GeV energies can contribute significantly to the energy and pressure budget in the interstellar, circumgalactic, and intergalactic medium (ISM, CGM, IGM). Recent cosmological simulations have begun to explore these…

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 rays (CR) propagate through the galactic scales down to the smaller scales at which stars form. CRs are close to energy equipartition with the other components of the interstellar medium and can provide a support against gravity if…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-02-13 Benoît Commerçon , Alexandre Marcowith , Yohan Dubois

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

This paper studies cosmic ray (CR) transport in magneto hydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence. CR transport is strongly dependent on the properties of the magnetic turbulence. We perform test particle simulations to study the interactions of CR…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-02-23 Snehanshu Maiti , Kirit Makwana , Heshou Zhang , Huirong Yan

Cosmic ray transport on galactic scales depends on the detailed properties of the magnetized, multiphase interstellar medium (ISM). In this work, we post-process a high-resolution TIGRESS magnetohydrodynamic simulation modeling a local…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-11-24 Lucia Armillotta , Eve C. Ostriker , Yan-Fei Jiang

Cosmic rays (CRs) are a pivotal non-thermal component of galaxy formation and evolution. However, the intricacies of CR physics, particularly how they propagate in the circumgalactic medium (CGM), remain largely unconstrained. In this work,…

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 rays (CRs) are thought to be an important feedback mechanism in star-forming galaxies. They can provide an important source of pressure support and possibly drive outflows. We perform multidimensional CR-magnetohydrodynamic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-03-01 Xiaoshan Huang , Shane W. Davis

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

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

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

We investigate the impact of cosmic rays (CR) and different modes of CR transport on the properties of Milky Way-mass galaxies in cosmological magneto-hydrodynamical simulations in the context of the AURIGA project. We systematically study…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-07-15 Tobias Buck , Christoph Pfrommer , Rüdiger Pakmor , Robert J. J. Grand , Volker Springel
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