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Measurements of ultra heavy nuclei at GeV/n energies in the galactic cosmic radiation address the question of the sources (nucleosynthetic s- and r-processes). As such, the determination of CR source abundances is a promising way to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 C. Combet , D. Maurin , J. Donnelly , L. O'C Drury , E. Vangioni-Flam

The scattering of fast radio bursts (FRBs) by the intergalactic medium (IGM) is explored using cosmological hydrodynamical simulations. We confirm that the scattering by the clumpy IGM has significant line-of-sight variations. We…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-17 Weishan Zhu , Long-Long Feng , Fupeng Zhang

Supernova remnants are believed to be the main sources of galactic Cosmic Rays (CR). Within this framework, particles are accelerated at supernova remnant shocks and then released in the interstellar medium. The mechanism through which CRs…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-08-19 Lara Nava , Stefano Gabici , Alexandre Marcowith , Giovanni Morlino , Vladimir S. Ptuskin

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,…

The variation in the intensity of cosmic rays at small angular scales is attributed to the interstellar turbulence in the vicinity of the Solar system. We show that {a turbulent origin of the small-scale structures implies that} the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-12-12 Rahul Kumar , Noemie Globus , David Eichler , Martin Pohl

Cosmic ray (CR) propagation is controlled by scattering in turbulent magnetic fields in space. In general, diffusive propagation is governed by pitch-angle diffusion in phase space. In this study, pitch-angle diffusion in the local…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-26 Huirong Yan , Siqi Zhao , Ming Zhang

We derive observational consequences of the hypothesis that cosmic rays (CR's) of energy $>10^{19}eV$ originate in the same cosmological objects producing gamma-ray bursts (GRB's). Inter-galactic magnetic fields $\gtrsim 10^{-12} G$ are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Jordi Miralda-Escude , Eli Waxman

Low-frequency radio observations of diffuse synchrotron radiation offer a unique vantage point for investigating the intricate relationship between gas and magnetic fields in the formation of structures within the Galaxy, spanning from the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-05-29 Andrea Bracco , Marco Padovani , Daniele Galli

Cosmic rays (CRs) play a decisive role within our own Galaxy. They provide partial pressure support against gravity, they trace past energetic events such as supernovae, and they reveal the underlying structure of the baryonic matter…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Torsten A. Ensslin , Christoph Pfrommer , Volker Springel , Martin Jubelgas

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

High-precision measurements of the cosmic-ray (CR) proton and helium spectra have revealed significant deviations from a simple power law, characterized by multiple spectral features, including a hardening above $\sim$100~GeV, a broad…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-14 Felix Aharonian , Bing Theodore Zhang

The problem in identifying the sites of origin of Galactic Cosmic Rays (CRs) is reviewed. Recent observational evidence from very-high energy (VHE, energies above 100 GeV) gamma-ray measurements is in contradiction with the surmise that…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 R. Plaga

The flux of gamma rays with energies >100MeV is dominated by diffuse emission from CRs illuminating the ISM of our Galaxy through the processes of Bremsstrahlung, pion production and decay, and inverse-Compton scattering. The study of this…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-02-22 LAT collaboration

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) may drive outflows and alter the phase structure of the circumgalactic medium, with potentially important implications on galaxy formation. However, these effects ultimately depend on the dominant mode of transport of CRs…

Most of the diffuse Galactic GeV gamma-ray emission is produced via collisions of cosmic ray (CR) protons with ISM protons. As such the observed spectra of the gamma-rays and the CRs should be strongly linked. Recent observations of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-02-01 Lara Nava , David Benyamin , Tsvi Piran , Nir J. Shaviv

The spectral data on the diffuse Galactic gamma-rays, at medium and high latitudes (|b| > 10) and energies of 1-100 GeV, recently published by the Fermi Collaboration are used to produce a novel study on the gamma-ray emissivity in the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-10-28 Maryam Tavakoli , Ilias Cholis , Carmelo Evoli , Piero Ullio

Constraining the behavior of cosmic ray data observed at Earth requires a precise understanding of how the cosmic rays propagate in the interstellar medium. The interstellar medium is not homogeneous; although turbulent magnetic fields…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-05-25 J. Patrick Harding , Chris L. Fryer , Susan Mendel

We study the nonlinear growth of kinetic gyroresonance instability of cosmic rays (CRs) induced by large scale compressible turbulence. This feedback of cosmic rays on turbulence was shown to induce an important scattering mechanism in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-03-28 Huirong Yan , A. Lazarian

Propagation of Galactic cosmic rays (CR) in the interstellar medium (ISM) is among the unsolved problems in particle astrophysics. Interpretation of CR spectrum and composition measurements and their possible link to dark matter crucially…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-09-11 Paolo Desiati , Juan Carlos Díaz Vélez , Nikolai Pogorelov , Ming Zhang