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Cosmic rays (CRs) are a dynamically important component of the interstellar medium (ISM) of galaxies. The $\sim$GeV CRs that carry most CR energy and pressure are likely confined by self-generated turbulence, leading them to stream along…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-11-16 Matt L. Sampson , James R. Beattie , Mark R. Krumholz , Roland M. Crocker , Christoph Federrath , Amit Seta

Weakly collisional, magnetised plasmas characterised by anisotropic viscosity and conduction are ubiquitous in galaxies, halos and the intracluster medium (ICM). Cosmic rays (CRs) play an important role in these environments as well, by…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-03-04 Philipp Kempski , Eliot Quataert , Jonathan Squire

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

Cosmic rays (CRs) have critical impacts in the multiphase interstellar medium (ISM), driving dynamical motions in low-density plasma and modifying the ionization state, temperature, and chemical composition of higher-density atomic and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-02-23 Christopher J. Bambic , Xue-Ning Bai , Eve C. Ostriker

Understanding cosmic ray (CR) diffusion in a partially ionized medium is both crucial and challenging. In this study, we investigate CR perpendicular superdiffusion and parallel transport in turbulent, partially ionized media using…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-10-09 Yue Hu , Siyao Xu , Alex Lazarian , James M. Stone , Philip F. Hopkins

Cosmic rays (CR) propagate through the galactic scales down to the smaller scales at which stars form. CRs are close to energy equipartition with the other components of the interstellar medium and can provide a support against gravity if…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-02-13 Benoît Commerçon , Alexandre Marcowith , Yohan Dubois

We study the change in cosmic-ray pressure, the change in cosmic-ray density, and the level of cosmic-ray induced heating via Alfven-wave damping when cosmic rays move from a hot ionized plasma to a cool cloud embedded in that plasma. The…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-28 John E. Everett , Ellen G. Zweibel

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

Heating of virialized gas by streaming cosmic rays (CRs) may be energetically important in galaxy halos, groups and clusters. We present a linear thermal stability analysis of plasmas heated by streaming CRs. We separately treat equilibria…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-02-24 Philipp Kempski , Eliot Quataert

Subsonic, compressive turbulence transfers energy to cosmic rays (CRs), a process known as non-resonant reacceleration. It is often invoked to explain observed ratios of primary to secondary CRs at $\sim \rm GeV$ energies, assuming wholly…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-01-23 Chad Bustard , S. Peng Oh

We study the effects of escaping cosmic rays (CRs) on the interstellar medium (ISM) around their source with spherically symmetric CR-hydrodynamical simulations taking into account the evolution of the CR energy spectrum, radiative cooling,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-07 Jiro Shimoda , Katsuaki Asano , Shu-ichiro Inutsuka

We investigate the dynamical interaction between cosmic rays (CRs) and the multiphase interstellar medium (ISM) using numerical magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations with a two-moment CR solver and TIGRESS simulations of star-forming…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-01-10 Lucia Armillotta , Eve C. Ostriker , Chang-Goo Kim , Yan-Fei Jiang

When a magnetised, thermal plasma containing a shock wave efficiently accelerates Cosmic Rays (CR) a reaction is exerted on the fluid structure. The simplest description of this process involves three conservation equations for the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 P. Duffy , L. O'C. Drury , H. J. Voelk

We study the capability of low-energy cosmic rays (CR) to penetrate into diffuse clouds when they move from the hot ionized plasma to a cool cloud embedded in that plasma. The spectrum of CR inside a cloud can be remarkably different from…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-10-30 Giovanni Morlino , Stefano Gabici

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

We explore the impact of diffusive cosmic rays (CRs) on the evolution of the interstellar medium (ISM) under varying assumptions of supernova explosion environment. In practice, we systematically vary the relative fractions of supernovae…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-12-28 Christine M. Simpson , Rüdiger Pakmor , Christoph Pfrommer , Simon C. O. Glover , Rowan Smith

Dynamically, cosmic rays with energies above about one GeV/nucleon may be important agents of galaxy evolution. Their pressures compare with the thermal and magnetic ones impacting galactic gas accretion, fountains and galactic outflows,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-05-18 A. Nuñez-Castiñeyra , I. A. Grenier , F. Bournaud , Y. Dubois , F. R. Kamal Youssef , P. Hennebelle

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

Cosmic-ray (CR) feedback is widely recognized as a key regulator of galaxy formation. After being accelerated at supernova remnant shocks, CRs propagate through the interstellar medium (ISM), establishing smooth large-scale distributions…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-10-21 Timon Thomas , Christoph Pfrommer , Rüdiger Pakmor , Rouven Lemmerz , Mohamad Shalaby

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…

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