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High-energy heavy-ion particle accelerators have long served as proxies for the harsh space radiation environment, enabling both fundamental life-science research and applied testing of flight hardware. Traditionally, monoenergetic…

Space Physics · Physics 2026-02-05 Luca Lunati , Enrico Pierobon , Uli Weber , Tim Wagner , Tabea Pfuhl , Marco Durante , Christoph Schuy

Spectra of Galactic Cosmic Rays (GCRs) measured at the Earth are the combination of several processes: sources production and acceleration, propagation in the interstellar medium and propagation in the heliosphere. Inside the solar cavity…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-23 P. Bobik , G. Boella , M. J. Boschini , C. Consolandi , S. Della Torre , M. Gervasi , D. Grandi , K. Kudela , E. Memola , S. Pensotti , P. G. Rancoita , M. Tacconi

Systematic effects arising from cosmic rays have been shown to be a significant threat to space telescopes using high-sensitivity bolometers. The LiteBIRD space mission aims to measure the polarised Cosmic Microwave Background with…

On their way through the heliosphere, Galactic Cosmic Rays (GCRs) are modulated by various effects before they can be detected at Earth. This process can be described by the Parker equation, which calculates the phase space distribution of…

Space Physics · Physics 2017-11-28 Jan Gieseler , Bernd Heber , Konstantin Herbst

The Gamma-Ray Integrated Detectors (GRID) are a space science mission that employs compact gamma-ray detectors mounted on NanoSats in low Earth orbit (LEO) to monitor the transient gamma-ray sky. Owing to the unpredictability of the time…

The primary components of radiation in interplanetary space are galactic cosmic rays (GCR) and solar cosmic radiation (SCR). GCR originates from outside of our Solar System, while SCR consists of low energy solar wind particles that flow…

Space Physics · Physics 2016-12-30 P. Paschalis , A. Tezari , M. Gerontidou , H. Mavromichalaki , P. Nikolopoulou

Galactic Cosmic Rays (GCRs) are mainly protons confined in the galactic magnetic field to form an isotropic flux inside the galaxy. Before reaching the Earth orbit they enter the Heliosphere and undergo diffusion, convection, magnetic drift…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-23 P. Bobik , M. J. Boschini , C. Consolandi , S. Della Torre , M. Gervasi , D. Grandi , K. Kudela , S. Pensotti , P. G. Rancoita

Measurements of the low energy spectrum of Galactic Cosmic Rays (GCR) by detectors at or near the Earth are affected by Solar modulation. To overcome this difficulty, we consider nearby molecular clouds as GCR detectors outside the Solar…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-03 A. Neronov , D. V. Semikoz , A. M. Taylor

The main scientific goal of the Gravitational wave high-energy Electromagnetic Counterpart All-sky Monitor (GECAM) is to monitor various types of Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRB) originated from merger of binary compact stars, which could also…

The acceleration of cosmic ray particles and their propagation in the Milky Way and the heliosphere tangle with each other, leading to complexity and degeneracy of the modeling of Galactic cosmic rays (GCRs). The recent measurements of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-08-22 Cheng-Rui Zhu , Qiang Yuan , Da-Ming Wei

Direct measurements of cosmic ray (CR) species combined with observations of their associated gamma-ray emissions can be used to constrain models of CR propagation, trace the structure of the Galaxy, and search for signatures of new…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-04-11 Gudlaugur Johannesson , Troy A. Porter , Igor V. Moskalenko

Cosmic rays (CRs) are an integral component of the interstellar medium, producing broadband emission while interacting with other Galactic matter components like the interstellar gas or magnetic fields. In addition to observations,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-10-12 Julia Thaler , Ralf Kissmann , Olaf Reimer

In this note, we report the results of a simulation of the galactic component of high energy gamma rays, as seen by the future AMS-02 experiment on-board the International Space Station. The purpose of AMS is to measure the Cosmic Ray…

We present the implementation and the first results of cosmic ray (CR) feedback in the Feedback In Realistic Environments (FIRE) simulations. We investigate CR feedback in non-cosmological simulations of dwarf, sub-$L\star$ starburst, and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-09-04 T. K. Chan , D. Keres , P. F. Hopkins , E. Quataert , K. -Y. Su , C. C. Hayward , C. -A. Faucher-Giguere

The observed interaction product of Cosmic Rays (CRs) and Galactic magnetic fields (GMF) is the Galactic synchrotron emission integrated over the line-of-sight (LOS). The GMF strength and morphology and the CR density can be probed by…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-04-08 I. M. Polderman , M. Haverkorn , T. R. Jaffe

Cosmic rays (CRs) are ubiquitous in the interstellar medium (ISM) of nearby galaxies, but many of their properties are not well-constrained. Gamma-ray observations provide a powerful tool in this respect, allowing us to constrain both the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-07-19 Maria Werhahn , Philipp Girichidis , Christoph Pfrommer , Joseph Whittingham

We present the first simulations evolving resolved spectra of cosmic rays (CRs) from MeV-TeV energies (including electrons, positrons, (anti)protons, and heavier nuclei), in live kinetic-MHD galaxy simulations with star formation and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-29 Philip F. Hopkins , Iryna S. Butsky , Georgia V. Panopoulou , Suoqing Ji , Eliot Quataert , Claude-Andre Faucher-Giguere , Dusan Keres

The study presents an effective approach for deriving and utilizing polarity-based cross-correlation functions to forecast Galactic Cosmic Ray (GCR) fluxes based on solar activity proxies. By leveraging a universal correlation framework…

The effects of complex, mixed-ion radiation fields on neuronal function remain largely unexplored. Here, we present a complete analysis of the nano-scale physics associated with broad-spectrum galactic cosmic ray (GCR) irradiation in a…

Medical Physics · Physics 2022-12-07 Jonah S. Peter , Jan Schuemann , Kathryn D. Held , Aimee L. McNamara

The Milky Way's galactic center is a highly dynamical, crowded environment. Gamma ray observations of this region, such as the excess of GeV scale gamma rays observed by Fermi LAT, have been of tremendous interest to both the high energy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-24 Isabel S. Sands , Philip F. Hopkins , Sam B. Ponnada , Dusan Keres , Lina Necib , Yen-Hsing Julius Lin
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