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We investigate the diffusion of cosmic rays (CR) close to their sources. Propagating individual CRs in purely isotropic turbulent magnetic fields with maximal scale of spatial variations Lmax, we find that CRs diffuse anisotropically at…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-06-29 G. Giacinti , M. Kachelriess , D. V. Semikoz

We performed high-resolution simulations of a sample of 14 galaxy clusters that span a mass range from 5 x 10^13 M_solar/h to 2 x 10^15 M_solar/h to study the effects of cosmic rays (CRs) on thermal cluster observables such as X-ray…

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

One of the unsolved problems in cosmic ray (CR) physics is the small radial gradient of the gamma-ray intensity compared to the inferred CR source distribution in the Galactic disk. In diffusive CR propagation models the most natural…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 D. Breitschwerdt , V. Dogiel , H. J. V"olk

Cosmic rays (CRs) are the primary driver of ionization in star forming molecular clouds (MCs). Despite their potential impacts on gas dynamics and chemistry, no simulations of star cluster formation following the creation of individual…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-07-26 Margot Fitz Axen , Stella Offner , Phillip F. Hopkins , Mark R. Krumholz , Michael Y. Grudic

We present a parameter study of the magnetohydrodynamical dynamo driven by cosmic rays in the interstellar medium (ISM) focusing on the efficiency of magnetic field amplification and the issue of energy equipartition between magnetic,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Michał Hanasz , Katarzyna Otmianowska-Mazur , Grzegorz Kowal , Harald Lesch

Cosmic rays (CRs) play a pivotal role in various astrophysical systems, delivering feedback over a broad range of scales. However, modeling CR transport remains challenging due to its inherently multi-scale nature and complex microphysics.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-05 Xihui Zhao , Xue-Ning Bai , Eve C. Ostriker

Simulations of Galactic CR transport were performed with the software GALPROP, with the resulting gamma-ray flux calculated up to the PeV regime. The impact of altering parameters such as the number and distribution of CR sources, the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-04-29 Peter Marinos

Cosmic ray propagation is determined by the properties of interstellar turbulence. The multiphase nature of interstellar medium (ISM) and diversity of driving mechanisms give rise to spatial variation of turbulence properties. Meanwhile,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-09-21 Huirong Yan

Recently, Zhang & Liu (2024) proposed a turbulent convection model for multiscale anisotropies of cosmic rays (CRs), with an assumption of isotropic diffusion such that the anisotropies are statistically isotropic. However, this assumption…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-06-26 Yiran Zhang , Siming Liu

Cosmic rays travel throughout the Galaxy, leaving traces from radio to ultra-high-energy gamma rays due to interactions with the interstellar gas, radiation field and magnetic field. Therefore, it is necessary to utilize multi-wavelength…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-03-15 Xin-Yu He , Pei-Pei Zhang , Qiang Yuan , Yi-Qing Guo

We investigate the dynamical impact of cosmic rays in cosmological simulations of galaxy formation using adaptive-mesh refinement simulations of a $10^{12}$ solar mass halo. In agreement with previous work, a run with only our standard…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-23 Munier Salem , Greg L. Bryan , Cameron Hummels

The nature of cosmic rays (CRs) and cosmic ray transport in galaxy clusters is probed by a number of observations. Radio observations reveal the synchrotron radiation of cosmic ray electrons (CRe) spiraling around cluster magnetic fields.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-06-26 Joshua Wiener , Ellen G. Zweibel

Recent studies have suggested that low-energy cosmic rays (CRs) may be accelerated inside molecular clouds by the shocks associated with star formation. We use a Monte Carlo transport code to model the propagation of CRs accelerated by…

Cosmic rays (CRs) are known to play a key role in many astrophysical environments: they can modify shock dynamics, influence the thermochemistry and the ionization of the interstellar medium, regulate galaxy mass content by driving galactic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-25 Nimatou-Seydi Diallo , Yohan Dubois , Alexandre Marcowith , Joki Rosdahl , Benoît Commerçon

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

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 formation of galactic outflows from supernova explosions (SNe) with the moving-mesh code AREPO in a stratified column of gas with a surface density similar to the Milky Way disk at the solar circle. We compare different…

Understanding the physical mechanisms that control galaxy formation is a fundamental challenge in contemporary astrophysics. Recent advances in the field of astrophysical feedback strongly suggest that cosmic rays (CRs) may be crucially…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-10-10 Mateusz Ruszkowski , Christoph Pfrommer

Cosmological hydrodynamic simulations of large scale structure in the universe have shown that accretion shocks and merger shocks form due to flow motions associated with the gravitational collapse of nonlinear structures. Estimated speed…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Hyesung Kang , T. W. Jones