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Multiphase outflows, revealed by multi-wavelength observations, are crucial in redistributing gas and metals within and around galaxies. These outflows are often modelled theoretically using wind tunnel simulations of a cold ($\sim 10^4$ K)…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-12-10 Alankar Dutta , Prateek Sharma , Max Gronke

We use $1$D and $3$D two-fluid cosmic ray (CR) hydrodynamic simulations to investigate the role of CRs in the vicinity of a compact young star cluster. We model a self-gravitating cloud (density profile $\rho \propto r^{-1}$), include…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-08-08 Siddhartha Gupta , Biman B. Nath , Prateek Sharma

Cosmological shock waves result from supersonic flow motions induced by hierarchical clustering of nonlinear structures in the universe. These shocks govern the nature of cosmic plasma through thermalization of gas and acceleration of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Hyesung Kang , Dongsu Ryu , Renyue Cen , J. P. Ostriker

Galaxy clusters are known to be reservoirs of Cosmic Rays (CRs), as inferred from theoretical calculations or detection of CR-derived observables. CR acceleration in clusters is mostly attributed to the dynamical activity that produces…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-05 Reju Sam John , Surajit Paul , Luigi Iapichino , Karl Mannheim , Harish Kumar

It has been shown that supernova blast waves interacting with winds from massive stars in compact star clusters may be capable of producing cosmic-ray (CR) protons to above $10^{17}$ eV. We give a brief description of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-12-13 A. M. Bykov , M. E. Kalyashova , D. C. Ellison , S. M. Osipov

The local cosmic-ray (CR) spectra are calculated for typical characteristic regions of a cold dense molecular cloud, to investigate two so far neglected mechanisms of dust charging: collection of suprathermal CR electrons and protons by…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-11-05 Alexei Ivlev , Marco Padovani , Daniele Galli , Paola Caselli

Cosmic rays (CRs) propagate in the Milky Way and interact with the interstellar medium and magnetic fields. These interactions produce emissions that span the electromagnetic spectrum, and are an invaluable tool for understanding the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-12-29 E. Orlando , P. Harrington , A. W. Strong

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

The transport of cosmic rays (CRs) is crucial for the understanding of almost all high-energy phenomena. Both pre-existing large-scale magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence and locally generated turbulence through plasma instabilities are…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-02-28 Olga Lebiga , Reinaldo Santos-Lima , Huirong Yan

We calculate spectra of escaping cosmic rays (CRs) accelerated at shocks produced by expanding Galactic superbubbles powered by multiple supernovae producing a continuous energy outflow in star-forming galaxies. We solve the generalized…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-01-28 Zhaowei Zhang , Kohta Murase , Peter Mészáros

Nonthermal particles can be produced due to incomplete thermalization at collisionless shocks and further accelerated to very high energies via diffusive shock acceleration. In a previous study we explored the cosmic ray (CR) acceleration…

Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-18 Hyesung Kang

Cluster spiral galaxies suffer catastrophic losses of the cool, neutral gas component of their interstellar medium due to ram pressure stripping, contributing to the observed quenching of star formation in the disk compared to galaxies in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-03-30 Ryan Jeffrey Farber , Mateusz Ruszkowski , Stephanie Tonnesen , Paco Holguin

We study non-thermal emissions from cool cores in galaxy clusters. We adopted a recent model, in which cosmic-rays (CRs) prevail in the cores and stably heat them through CR streaming. The non-thermal emissions come from the interaction…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-03 Yutaka Fujita , Yutaka Ohira

We explore the impact of diffusive cosmic rays (CRs) on the evolution of the interstellar medium (ISM) under varying assumptions of supernova explosion environment. In practice, we systematically vary the relative fractions of supernovae…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-12-28 Christine M. Simpson , Rüdiger Pakmor , Christoph Pfrommer , Simon C. O. Glover , Rowan Smith

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

The quenching `maintenance' and `cooling flow' problems are important from the Milky Way through massive cluster elliptical galaxies. Previous work has shown that some source of energy beyond that from stars and pure magnetohydrodynamic…

We investigate stochastic particle acceleration in accretion flows. It is believed that the magnetorotational instability (MRI) generates turbulence inside accretion flows and that cosmic rays (CRs) are accelerated by the turbulence. We…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-05-25 Shigeo S. Kimura , Kenji Toma , Takeru K. Suzuki , Shu-ichiro Inutsuka

The non-resonant (Bell) streaming instability driven by energetic particles is crucial for producing amplified magnetic fields that are key to the acceleration of cosmic rays (CRs) in supernova remnants, around Galactic and extra-galactic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-10-12 D. Caprioli , G. Zacharegkas , C. Haggerty , S. Gupta , B. Schroer

Galaxy evolution is an important topic, and our physical understanding must be complete to establish a correct picture. This includes a thorough treatment of feedback. The effects of thermal-mechanical and radiative feedback have been…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-07-13 Ellis R. Owen , Kinwah Wu , Yoshiyuki Inoue , H. -Y. Karen Yang , Alison M. W. Mitchell

We investigate how cosmic ray (CR) transport in molecular clouds and their substructures can be probed using multi-wavelength observations. The detailed microphysics regulating the penetration and coupling of CRs in dense molecular…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-19 Hayden P. H. Ng , Ellis R. Owen , Naomi Tsuji , Szu-Ting Chen
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