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Current-day cosmic ray (CR) propagation studies use static Milky-Way models and fit parametrized source distributions to data. Instead, we use three-dimensional magneto-hydrodynamical (MHD) simulations of isolated galaxies with the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-05-25 Maria Werhahn , Christoph Pfrommer , Philipp Girichidis , Ewald Puchwein , Rüdiger Pakmor

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

We use linear analysis to examine the effect of cosmic rays (CRs) on the Parker-Jeans instability of magnetized self-gravitating gaseous disks. We adopt a slab equilibrium model in which the gravity (including self-gravity) is perpendicular…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Takuhito Kuwabara , Chung-Ming Ko

We study transport of GeV cosmic rays (CRs) in a set of high-resolution TIGRESS magnetohydrodynamic simulations of the star-forming interstellar medium (ISM). Our local disk patch models sample a wide range of gas surface densities,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-09-04 Ronan Hix , Lucia Armillotta , Eve Ostriker , Chang-Goo Kim

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

We aim to elucidate cosmic ray (CR) propagation in the weakly ionized environments of supernova remnants (SNRs) basing our analysis on the cosmic ray cloud (CRC) model developed by \citet{2013ApJ...768...73M} and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-01-15 L. Brahimi , A. Marcowith , V. S. Ptuskin

The majority of galactic baryons reside outside of the galactic disk in the diffuse gas known as the circumgalactic medium (CGM). While state-of-the art simulations excel at reproducing galactic disk properties, many struggle to drive…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-12-05 Iryna Butsky , Thomas R. Quinn

Cosmic rays (CR) play an important role in dense molecular cores, affecting their thermal and dynamical evolution and initiating the chemistry. Several studies have shown that the formation of protostellar discs in collapsing clouds is…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-17 Marco Padovani , Patrick Hennebelle , Daniele Galli

The north-south (NS) anisotropy of galactic cosmic rays (GCRs) is dominated by a diamagnetic drift flow of GCRs in the interplanetary magnetic field (IMF), allowing us to derive key parameters of cosmic-ray propagation, such as the density…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-17 M. Kozai , Y. Hayashi , K. Fujii , K. Munakata , C. Kato , N. Miyashita , A. Kadokura , R. Kataoka , S. Miyake , M. L. Duldig , J. E. Humble , K. Iwai

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

Cosmic ray transport on galactic scales depends on the detailed properties of the magnetized, multiphase interstellar medium (ISM). In this work, we post-process a high-resolution TIGRESS magnetohydrodynamic simulation modeling a local…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-11-24 Lucia Armillotta , Eve C. Ostriker , Yan-Fei Jiang

Cosmological filaments, galaxy clusters, and galaxies are magnetized reservoirs of cosmic rays (CRs). The exchange of CRs across these structures is usually modeled assuming that they remain charged and magnetically confined. At high…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-27 Ellis R. Owen , Kinwah Wu , Yoshiyuki Inoue , Tatsuki Fujiwara , Qin Han , Hayden P. H. Ng

Cosmic rays (CRs) are an important source of feedback in a variety of astrophysical contexts. Magneto-hydrodynamical (MHD) simulations treating CRs as a fluid have shown that how their feedback operates is strongly dependent on their…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-09-25 Joki Rosdahl , Yohan Dubois , Benoit Commercon , Nimatou Diallo , Nai Chieh Lin , Alexandre Marcowith

The anisotropy of cosmic rays (CRs) in the solar vicinity is generally at- tributed to the CR streaming due to the discrete distribution of CR sources or local magnetic field modulation. Recently, the two dimensional large scale CR…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2012-04-17 Xiao-bo Qu , Yi Zhang , Liang Xue , Cheng Liu , Hong-bo Hu

Angular momentum transport by magnetic fields is important for formation and evolution of protoplanetary disks. The effects of magnetic fields are suppressed due to non-ideal magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) effects such as ambipolar diffusion and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-15 Erika Nishio , Kengo Tomida , Yuki Kudoh , Shigeo S. Kimura

Irregular galaxies are usually smaller and less massive than their spiral, S0, and elliptical counterparts. Radio observations indicate that a magnetic field is present in irregular galaxies whose value is similar to that in spiral…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-11-20 H. Siejkowski , M. Soida , K. Otmianowska-Mazur , M. Hanasz , D. J. Bomans

Recently, cosmic rays (CRs) have emerged as a leading candidate for driving galactic winds. Small-scale processes can dramatically affect global wind properties. We run two-moment simulations of CR streaming to study how sound waves are…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-05-04 Tsun Hin Navin Tsung , S. Peng Oh , Yan-Fei Jiang

We have calculated the cosmic ray (CR) acceleration at young remnants from Type Ia supernovae expanding into a uniform interstellar medium (ISM). Adopting quasi-parallel magnetic fields, gasdynamic equations and the diffusion convection…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Hyesung Kang

We present a nonlinear Monte Carlo model of efficient diffusive shock acceleration (DSA) where the magnetic turbulence responsible for particle diffusion is calculated self-consistently from the resonant cosmic-ray (CR) streaming…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-19 Andrei M. Bykov , Donald C. Ellison , Sergei M. Osipov , Andrey E. Vladimirov

A theory of cosmic-ray transport in multi-phase diffusive media is developed, with the specific application to cases in which the cosmic-ray diffusion coefficient has large spatial fluctuations that may be inherently multi-scale. We…

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