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Cosmic rays (CRs) play a pivotal role in various astrophysical systems, delivering feedback over a broad range of scales. However, modeling CR transport remains challenging due to its inherently multi-scale nature and complex microphysics.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-05 Xihui Zhao , Xue-Ning Bai , Eve C. Ostriker

Cosmic rays (CRs) are known to play a key role in many astrophysical environments: they can modify shock dynamics, influence the thermochemistry and the ionization of the interstellar medium, regulate galaxy mass content by driving galactic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-25 Nimatou-Seydi Diallo , Yohan Dubois , Alexandre Marcowith , Joki Rosdahl , Benoît Commerçon

Cosmic rays (CRs) are thought to play a dynamically important role in several key aspects of galaxy evolution, including the structure of the interstellar medium, the formation of galactic winds, and the non-thermal pressure support of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-11-19 Yohan Dubois , Benoît Commerçon , Alexandre Marcowith , Loann Brahimi

Cosmic rays (CRs) are thought to play an important role in galaxy evolution. We study their effect when coupled to other important sources of feedback, namely supernovae and stellar radiation, by including CR anisotropic diffusion and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-05-27 Marion Farcy , Joakim Rosdahl , Yohan Dubois , Jérémy Blaizot , Sergio Martin-Alvarez

We present a new numerical algorithm to solve the recently derived equations of two-moment cosmic ray hydrodynamics (CRHD). The algorithm is implemented as a module in the moving mesh Arepo code. Therein, the anisotropic transport of cosmic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-02-24 Timon Thomas , Christoph Pfrommer , Rüdiger Pakmor

We present new simulations of local star-forming disks that self-consistently evolve cosmic rays (CRs) and multiphase gas using TIGRESS++. To isolate the role of CRs, we conduct paired simulations under solar-neighborhood conditions: a…

Numerical solutions of the cosmic-ray (CR) magneto-hydrodynamic equations are dogged by a powerful numerical instability, which arises from the constraint that CRs can only stream down their gradient. The standard cure is to regularize by…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-03-16 Yan-Fei Jiang , Peng Oh

Galactic cosmic rays (CRs) play a crucial role in galaxy formation and evolution by altering gas dynamics and chemistry across multiple scales. Typical numerical simulations of CR transport assume a constant diffusion coefficient for the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-10-16 Sarah Thiele , Romain Teyssier

Cosmic ray (CR) transport and acceleration is essential for many astrophysical problems, e.g., CMB foreground, ionization of molecular clouds and all high energy phenomena. Recent advances in MHD turbulence call for revisions in the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-12-06 Huirong Yan , A. Lazarian

Feedback mediated by cosmic rays (CRs) is an important process in galaxy formation. Because CRs are long-lived and because they are transported along magnetic field lines independently of any gas flow, they can efficiently distribute their…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-03-24 Timon Thomas , Christoph Pfrommer , Rüdiger Pakmor

We present a new implementation of radiation hydrodynamics (RHD) in the adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) code RAMSES. The multi-group radiative transfer (RT) is performed on the AMR grid with a first-order Godunov method using the M1 closure…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Joakim Rosdahl , Jeremy Blaizot , Dominique Aubert , Timothy Stranex , Romain Teyssier

It is well known that cosmic rays (CRs) contribute significantly to the pressure of the interstellar medium in our own Galaxy, suggesting that they may play an important role in regulating star formation during the formation and evolution…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Martin Jubelgas , Volker Springel , Torsten A. Ensslin , Christoph Pfrommer

We consider cosmic ray (CR) modified shocks with both streaming and diffusion in the two-fluid description. Previously, numerical codes were unable to incorporate streaming in this demanding regime, and have never been compared against…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-08-25 Tsun Hin Navin Tsung , S. Peng Oh , Yan-Fei Jiang

This paper studies cosmic ray (CR) transport in magneto hydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence. CR transport is strongly dependent on the properties of the magnetic turbulence. We perform test particle simulations to study the interactions of CR…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-02-23 Snehanshu Maiti , Kirit Makwana , Heshou Zhang , Huirong Yan

We review some recent findings on diffusion of cosmic rays (CRs) in magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence obtained by adopting the numerically-tested model of MHD turbulence, including perpendicular superdiffusion of CRs, inefficient…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-10-19 Siyao Xu

We study diffusion of Cosmic Rays (CRs) in turbulent magnetic fields using test particle simulations. Electromagnetic fields are produced in direct numerical MHD simulations of turbulence and used as an input for particle tracing, particle…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-18 A. Beresnyak , H. Yan , A. Lazarian

Cosmic ray (CR) transport and acceleration is determined by the properties of magnetic turbulence. Recent advances in MHD turbulence call for revisions in the paradigm of cosmic ray transport. We use the models of magnetohydrodynamic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-15 Huirong Yan

Recently, cosmic ray (CR) feedback has been identified as a critical process in galaxy formation but most previous simulations have integrated out the energy-dependence of the CR distribution, despite its large extent over more than twelve…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-03-15 Philipp Girichidis , Christoph Pfrommer , Rüdiger Pakmor , Volker Springel

We discuss new methods to integrate the cosmic ray (CR) evolution equations coupled to magneto-hydrodynamics (MHD) on an unstructured moving mesh, as realised in the massively parallel AREPO code for cosmological simulations. We account for…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-01-11 C. Pfrommer , R. Pakmor , K. Schaal , C. M. Simpson , V. Springel

The circumgalactic medium (CGM) contains information on the cumulative effect of galactic outflows over time, generally thought to be caused by feedback from star formation and active galactic nuclei. Observations of such outflows via…

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