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The nonresonant cosmic ray instability, predicted by Bell (2004), is thought to play an important role in the acceleration and confinement of cosmic rays (CRs) close to supernova remnants. Despite its importance, the exact mechanism…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-09-17 Georgios Zacharegkas , Damiano Caprioli , Colby Haggerty

The nonresonant cosmic ray instability, predicted by Bell (2004), is thought to play an important role in the acceleration and confinement of cosmic rays (CR) close to supernova remnants. Despite its importance, the exact mechanism…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-03-24 Georgios Zacharegkas , Damiano Caprioli , Colby Haggerty , Siddhartha Gupta

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

A critical component of particle acceleration in astrophysical shocks is the non-resonant (Bell) instability, where the streaming of cosmic rays (CRs) leads to the amplification of magnetic fields necessary to scatter particles. In this…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-02-11 Emily Lichko , Damiano Caprioli , Benedikt Schroer , Siddhartha Gupta

A non-resonant instability for the amplification of the interstellar magnetic field in young Supernova Remnant (SNR) shocks was predicted by Bell (2004), and is thought to be relevant for the acceleration of cosmic ray (CR) particles. For…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-18 L. Gargate , R. A. Fonseca , J. Niemiec , M. Pohl , R. Bingham , L. O. Silva

Cosmic rays (CRs) streaming in weakly magnetized plasmas can drive large-amplitude magnetic fluctuations via nonresonant streaming instability (NRSI), or Bell instability. Using one-dimensional kinetic simulations, we investigate how…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-11-27 Saikat Das , Siddhartha Gupta , Prateek Sharma

Streaming cosmic rays can power the exponential growth of a seed magnetic field by exciting a non-resonant instability that feeds on their bulk kinetic energy. By generating the necessary turbulent magnetic field, it is thought to play a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-03-28 Alexis Marret , Andrea Ciardi , Roch Smets , Julien Fuchs , Loic Nicolas

Cosmic-ray streaming instabilities at supernova shocks are discussed in the quasilinear diffusion formalism which takes into account the feedback effect of wave growth on the cosmic ray streaming motion. In particular, the nonresonant…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-13 Qinghuan Luo , Don Melrose

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

The cosmic ray current-driven (CRCD) instability, predicted by Bell (2004), consists of non-resonant, growing plasma waves driven by the electric current of cosmic rays (CRs) that stream along the magnetic field ahead of both relativistic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Mario A. Riquelme , Anatoly Spitkovsky

Cosmic ray (CR) currents through magnetised plasma drive strong instabilities producing amplification of the magnetic field. This amplification helps explain the CR energy spectrum as well as observations of supernova remnants and radio…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-07-31 James H. Matthews , Anthony R. Bell , Katherine M. Blundell , Anabella T. Araudo

Nonresonant current instability was identified by Bell (2004) as an important mechanism for magnetic field amplification in supernova remnants. In this paper we focus on studying the nonlinear stage of this instability using the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-06-06 Andrey Beresnyak , Hui Li

We have studied the non-resonant streaming instability of charged energetic particles moving through a background plasma, discovered by Bell (2004). We confirm his numerical results regarding a significant magnetic field amplification in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 V. N. Zirakashvili , V. S. Ptuskin , H. J. Voelk

We investigate magnetic-field amplification driven by the nonresonant hybrid (NRH or Bell) instability and its impact on cosmic-ray (CR) acceleration at reverse shocks of ultrafast outflows (UFOs) from active galactic nuclei (AGN). Previous…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-01-27 Rei Nishiura , Tsuyoshi Inoue

Magnetic field amplification by relativistic streaming plasma instabilities is central to a wide variety of high-energy astrophysical environments as well as to laboratory scenarios associated with intense lasers and electron beams. We…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-06-02 J. R. Peterson , S. Glenzer , F. Fiuza

We show that the Bell instability, which is widely considered potentially important for cosmic-ray acceleration, is the low-frequency limit of a gyroresonant interaction between the protons of the interstellar medium and shear-Alfv\'en…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-03-13 Martin S. Weidl , Dan Winske , Christoph Niemann

A non-resonant streaming instability driven by cosmic-ray currents, also called Bell's instability, is proposed as a candidate for providing the required magnetic turbulence of efficient diffusive shock accelerations. To demonstrate the…

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

The non-thermal particles escaping from collisionless shocks into the surrounding medium can trigger a non-resonant streaming instability that converts parts of their drift kinetic energy into large amplitude magnetic field perturbations,…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-01-28 Alexis Marret , Andrea Ciardi , Roch Smets

Energetic nonthermal particles (cosmic rays, CRs) are accelerated in supernova remnants, relativistic jets and other astrophysical objects. The CR energy density is typically comparable with that of the thermal components and magnetic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-15 A. M. Bykov , A. Brandenburg , M. A. Malkov , S. M. Osipov
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