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The Galactic cosmic ray (GCR) intensity has been postulated by others to vary cyclically with a peak to valley ratio of ~3:1, as the Solar System moves from the Spiral Arm to the Inter-Arm regions of the Galaxy. These intensities have been…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 T. Sloan , A. W. Wolfendale

We present a hydrodynamical simulation of the turbulent, magnetized, supernova (SN)-driven interstellar medium (ISM) in a stratified box that dynamically couples the injection and evolution of cosmic rays (CRs) and a self-consistent…

Recent advances on gamma-ray observations from SuperNova Remnants and Molecular Clouds offer the possibility to study in detail the properties of the propagation of escaping Cosmic Rays (CR). However, a complete theory for CR transport…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-09-09 Lara Nava , Stefano Gabici , Alexandre Marcowith , Giovanni Morlino , Vladimir Ptuskin

The role of cosmic rays generated by supernovae and young stars has very recently begun to receive significant attention in studies of galaxy formation and evolution due to the realization that cosmic rays can efficiently accelerate…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-04-11 R. Farber , M. Ruszkowski , H. -Y. K. Yang , E. G. Zweibel

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

Various studies firmly establish the fact that gamma-ray observations can act as a unique probe to detect the possible cosmic ray (CR) sources, study the CR density distribution and explore the average properties of interstellar medium…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-01-08 Sayan Biswas , Nayantara Gupta

The gamma-ray emission from Starburst and Starforming Galaxies (SBGs and SFGs) strongly suggest a correlation between star-forming activity and gamma-ray luminosity. However, the very nature of cosmic-ray (CR) transport and the degree of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-08-17 A. Ambrosone , M. Chianese , D. F. G. Fiorillo , A. Marinelli , G. Miele

Galactic cosmic rays (CRs) are a fundamental non-thermal component of the interstellar medium (ISM). Understanding the transport of super-high-energy particles is essential for interpreting observations of Galactic PeVatrons. Classical…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-07 Yue Hu

The spatial distribution of cosmic ray (CR) particles in the interstellar medium (ISM) is of major importance in radio astronomy, where its knowledge is essential for the interpretation of observations, and in theoretical astrophysics,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-06-28 Devika Tharakkal , Andrew P. Snodin , Graeme R. Sarson , Anvar Shukurov

The thermal plasma of galaxy clusters lost most of its information on how structure formation proceeded as a result of dissipative processes. In contrast, non-equilibrium distributions of cosmic rays (CR) preserve the information about…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Christoph Pfrommer , Torsten A. Ensslin , Volker Springel

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…

Low energy cosmic-rays (CRs) are responsible for gas heating and ionization of interstellar clouds, which in turn introduces coupling to Galactic magnetic fields. So far the CR ionization rate (CRIR) has been estimated using indirect…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-11-16 Shmuel Bialy

The physics of energetic particle propagation in magnetised environments plays a crucial role in both the processes of acceleration and transport of cosmic rays. Recent theoretical developments in the field of cosmic ray research have been…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-10-31 Elena Amato , Pasquale Blasi

Cosmic ray (CR) electrons are key tracers of non-thermal processes in galaxies, yet their spectra are often modelled under the untested assumption of steady state between injection and cooling. In this work, we present a time-dependent…

Star-forming galaxies (SFGs) emit non-thermal radiation from radio to gamma-rays. We aim to investigate the main mechanisms of global CR transport and cooling in SFGs. The way they contribute in shaping the relations between non-thermal…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-01-05 P. Kornecki , E. Peretti , S. del Palacio , P. Benaglia , L. J. Pellizza

Cosmic rays (CRs) are a ubiquitous non-thermal component of the interstellar medium (ISM). A data-driven three-dimensional (3D) map of their distribution is essential for understanding CR transport and constraining the spatial distribution…

Propagation of cosmic rays (CRs) in turbulent and magnetized astrophysical media is a long-standing problem that requires both understanding of the properties of turbulent magnetic fields and their interaction with energetic particles. This…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-04-07 Alex Lazarian , Siyao Xu , Yue Hu

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

Observations of giant radio halos provide unambiguous evidence for the existence of cosmic ray (CR) electrons and magnetic fields in galaxy clusters. The physical mechanism generating radio halos is still heavily debated. We critically…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-09-28 Christoph Pfrommer , Torsten Ensslin , Francesco Miniati , Kandaswamy Subramanian

Phenomenological models of cosmic-ray (CR) transport in the Milky Way (MW) can reproduce a wide range of observations assuming that CRs scatter off of magnetic-field fluctuations with spectrum $\propto k^{-\delta}$ and $\delta \sim…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-06-15 Philipp Kempski , Eliot Quataert