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A correct description of cosmic-ray (CR) diffusion in turbulent plasma is essential for many astrophysical and heliospheric problems. This paper aims to present physical diffusion behavior of CRs in actual turbulent magnetic fields, model…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-16 Siyao Xu , Huirong Yan

We present results of elaborate four-dimensional simulations of the propagation of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays (UHECR), which are based on a realistic astrophysical scenario. The distribution of the arrival directions of the UHECR is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-02-19 David Wittkowski , Karl-Heinz Kampert

Cosmic rays in the energy range from about 10's GeV to several 100's TeV are observed on Earth with an energy-dependent anisotropy of order 0.01-0.1%, and a consistent topology that appears to significantly change at higher energy. The…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-03 P. Desiati , A. Lazarian

We study the role of local interstellar turbulence in shaping the large-scale anisotropy in the arrival directions of TeV-PeV cosmic-rays (CRs) on the sky. Assuming pitch-angle diffusion of CRs in a magnetic flux tube containing the Earth,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-04-03 Gwenael Giacinti , John G. Kirk

This work presents a scenario of ultra-high energy cosmic ray source distribution where a nearby source is solely responsible for the anisotropies in arrival directions of cosmic rays while the rest of the sources contribute only…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-01-09 Andrej Dundović , Günter Sigl

The existence of the cosmic ray Halo in our Galaxy has been discussed for more than half a century. If it is real it could help to explain some puzzling features of the cosmic ray flux: its small radial gradient, nearly perfect isotropy and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-19 Anatoly Erlykin , Arnold Wolfendale

Diffusion of cosmic rays (CRs) is the key process of understanding their propagation and acceleration. We employ the description of spatial separation of magnetic field lines in MHD turbulence in Lazarian & Vishniac (1999) to quantify the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-12-21 A. Lazarian , Huirong Yan

Simulations of the cosmic-ray (CR) anisotropy down to TeV energies are presented, using turbulence parameters consistent with those inferred from observations of the interstellar medium. We compute the angular power spectra $C_{\ell}$ of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-10-15 Wenyi Bian , Gwenael Giacinti , Brian Reville

We calculate the large-scale cosmic-ray (CR) anisotropies predicted for a range of Goldreich-Sridhar (GS) and isotropic models of interstellar turbulence, and compare them with IceTop data. In general, the predicted CR anisotropy is not a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-02-07 Gwenael Giacinti , John G. Kirk

The physics of cosmic rays (CR) is a promising candidate for explaining the driving of galactic winds and outflows. Recent galaxy formation simulations have demonstrated the need for active CR transport either in the form of diffusion or…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-07-19 Ruediger Pakmor , Christoph Pfrommer , Christine M. Simpson , Volker Springel

We investigate the anisotropic diffusion of cosmic rays in the large-scale Galactic magnetic field, where diffusion occurs at different rates along and across the magnetic field lines. To model this process, we use stochastic differential…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-06-17 Ala'a AL-Zetoun

Recently, Zhang & Liu (2024) proposed a turbulent convection model for multiscale anisotropies of cosmic rays (CRs), with an assumption of isotropic diffusion such that the anisotropies are statistically isotropic. However, this assumption…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-06-26 Yiran Zhang , Siming Liu

Important informations on the origin and the propagation mechanisms of cosmic rays may be provided by the measurement of the anisotropies of their arrival direction. In this paper the observation of anisotropy regions at different angular…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 Roberto Iuppa

The arrival directions of multi-TeV cosmic rays show significant anisotropies at small angular scales. It has been argued that this small scale structure is reflecting the local, turbulent magnetic field in the presence of a global dipole…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-12-01 Philipp Mertsch , Markus Ahlers

During the past two decades, experiments in both the Northern and Southern hemispheres have observed a small but measurable energy-dependent sidereal anisotropy in the arrival direction distribution of galactic cosmic rays. The relative…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-10-16 The HAWC Collaboration , The IceCube Collaboration

The distribution of arrival directions of cosmic rays is remarkably isotropic, which is a consequence of their repeated scattering in magnetic fields. Yet, high-statistics observatories like IceCube and HAWC have revealed the presence of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-12-04 Philipp Mertsch , Markus Ahlers

We consider the propagation of galactic cosmic rays under assumption that the interstellar medium is a fractal one. An anomalous diffusion equation in terms of fractional derivatives is used to describe of cosmic ray propagation. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. A. Lagutin , V. V. Uchaikin

A conventional explanation of the dipole anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation is in terms of the Doppler effect: our galaxy is moving with respect to CMB frame with $ \sim 600 ~ km ~ s^{-1} $. However, as the deep…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Jaroszynski , B. Paczynski

We developed a new method in order to detect and quantify a potential anisotropy in the ultrahigh energy cosmic ray flux. The proposed method is a new statistical tool based upon the percolation process that is used in physics to describe…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-10-19 Guillaume Decerprit , Benjamin Rouillé d'Orfeuil , Cyril Lachaud

The energy spectra and anisotropies are very important probes of the origin of cosmic rays. Recent measurements show that complicated but very interesting structures exist, at similar energies, in both the spectra and energy-dependent…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-01-04 Bing-Qiang Qiao , Qing Luo , Qiang Yuan , Yi-Qing Guo