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The interaction of cosmic rays (CRs) with magnetic fields and the interstelar medium (ISM) leads to the production of nonthermal radiation. Although this has been a topic of study for many years, it still poses many challenges to the…

The origin of cosmic rays (CRs) and how they propagate remain unclear. Studying the propagation of CRs in magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence can help to comprehend many open issues related to CR origin and the role of turbulent magnetic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-01-10 Na-Na Gao , Jian-Fu Zhang

Observations reveal a uniform Kolmogorov turbulence throughout the diffuse ionized interstellar medium (ISM) and supersonic turbulence preferentially located in the Galactic plane. Correspondingly, we consider the Galactic distribution of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-01-25 Siyao Xu , Bing Zhang

We present an analysis of rotation measure (RM) fluctuations from the Test Region of the Southern Galactic Plane Survey (SGPS), along with emission measure (EM) fluctuations in the same field taken from the Southern H-Alpha Sky Survey…

Molecular clouds are complex magnetized structures, with variations over a broad range of length scales. Ionization in dense, shielded clumps and cores of molecular clouds is thought to be caused by charged cosmic rays (CRs). These CRs can…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-07-27 Ellis R. Owen , Alvina Y. L. On , Shih-Ping Lai , Kinwah Wu

Substructure in the interstellar medium (ISM) is crucial for establishing the correlation between star formation and feedback and has the capacity to significantly perturb stellar orbits, thus playing a central role in galaxy dynamics and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-02-06 Shaunak Modak , Eve C. Ostriker , Chris Hamilton , Scott Tremaine

Galactic cosmic rays (CR) are particles presumably accelerated in supernova remnant shocks that propagate in the interstellar medium up to the densest parts of molecular clouds, losing energy and their ionisation efficiency because of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-05-25 M. Padovani , A. Marcowith , P. Hennebelle , K. Ferrière

We study dynamical effects of cosmics rays (CRs) on the thermal instability in the linear regime. CRs and the thermal plasma are treated as two different interacting fluids, in which CRs can diffuse along the magnetic field lines. We show…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-05-14 Mohsen Shadmehri

The problem of the origin of cosmic rays in the shocks produced by supernova explosions at energies below the so called 'knee' (at ~3*10$^6$ GeV) in the energy spectrum is addressed, with special attention to the propagation of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 A. D. Erlykin , A. A. Lagutin , A. W. Wolfendale

We analyse predictions of the CR lepton fluxes at the Earth of both secondary and primary origins, evaluate the theoretical uncertainties, and determine their level of consistency with respect to the available data. For propagation, we use…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-01-19 T. Delahaye , J. Lavalle , R. Lineros , F. Donato , N. Fornengo

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

We consider a possibility of identification of sources of cosmic rays (CR) of the energy above 1 TeV via observation of degree-scale extended gamma-ray emission which traces the locations of recent sources in the Galaxy. Such emission in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-05-30 A. Neronov , D. V. Semikoz

After more than a century of discovering cosmic rays, a comprehensive description of their origin, propagation, and composition still eludes us. One of the difficulties is that these particles interact with magnetic fields; therefore, their…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-07-13 Vanessa López-Barquero , Paolo Desiati

Cosmic ray (CR) feedback in galaxy evolution has seen a theoretical resurgence in the past decade, but significant uncertainties remain in CR transport through the interstellar and circum-galactic media (ISM and CGM). While several works…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-09-04 Sam B. Ponnada

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

We develop a theory to account for the cosmic ray spectrum between 1 GeV and 10^4 GeV following the earlier papers of this series. We use the basic concept that the cosmic ray particles are accelerated in a supernova shock that travels…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Peter L. Biermann , Richard G. Strom

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

Given that the bulk of the galactic cosmic rays (CRs) originates from transient point-like sources, such as supernova remnants, the flux of the CR primary component measured at Earth depends on the local source history. Whereas the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-10-01 D. Bisschoff , I. Büsching , M. S. Potgieter

We simulate the neutrino and $\gamma$-ray emissions of the Galaxy which are originated from the hadronic scattering of cosmic rays (CR) with the interstellar medium (ISM). Rather than assuming a uniform CR density, we estimate the spatial…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-10-27 Carmelo Evoli , Dario Grasso , Luca Maccione

Young massive star clusters (YMSCs) have been proposed as excellent candidates for the main sources of Galactic cosmic rays (CRs) up to the PeV range. The detection and study of gamma rays in the very-high-energy (E>100GeV) range has…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-11 Rowan Batzofin , Pierre Cristofari , Kathrin Egberts