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Cosmic rays (CRs) propagate in the Milky Way and interact with the interstellar medium and magnetic fields. These interactions produce emissions that span the electromagnetic spectrum, and are an invaluable tool for understanding the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-12-29 E. Orlando , P. Harrington , A. W. Strong

Several lines of evidence point to a relationship between gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) and the high mass stars that explode as supernovae. Arguments that GRB sources accelerate cosmic rays (CRs) are summarized. High-energy neutrino detection…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 C. D. Dermer , A. Atoyan

Highly relativistic jets from merger and accretion induced collapse of compact stellar objects, which may produce the cosmological gamma ray bursts (GRBs), are also very efficient and powerful cosmic ray accelerators. The expected…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Arnon Dar

The preheating of intergalactic medium(IGM) by structure collapsing and ultraviolet background(UVB) are investigated in cosmological hydrodynamical simulations. When gravitational collapsing is the sole heating mechanism, we find that (1)…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-09-27 Weishan Zhu , Long-Long Feng

We study the escape of cosmic-ray protons accelerated at a supernova remnant (SNR). We are interested in their propagation in interstellar medium (ISM) after they leave the shock neighborhood where they are accelerated, but when they are…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-18 Yutaka Fujita , Yutaka Ohira , Fumio Takahara

Cosmic rays produced or deposited at sites in hot cluster gas are thought to provide the pressure that forms X-ray cavities. While cavities have a net cooling effect on cluster gas, young, expanding cavities drive shocks that increase the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 William G. Mathews

We carry out a suite of simulations of the evolution of cosmic-ray (CR) driven, radiatively-cooled cold clouds embedded in hot material, as found in galactic outflows. In such interactions, CRs stream towards the cloud at the Alfv\'en…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-12-16 Marcus Brüggen , Evan Scannapieco

We investigate the shock acceleration of particles in massive galaxy mergers or collisions, and show that cosmic rays (CRs) can be accelerated up to the second knee energy ~0.1-1 EeV and possibly beyond, with a hard spectral index Gamma ~…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-19 Kazumi Kashiyama , Peter Mészáros

Abbreviated Abstract: A kinetic model of particle acceleration in supernova remnants (SNRs) is extended to study the cosmic ray (CR) and associated high energy gamma-ray production during SN shock propagation through the inhomogeneous…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Evgeny G. Berezhko , Heinrich J. Voelk

Quenching of star-formation has been identified in many starburst and post-starburst galaxies, indicating burst-like star-formation histories (SFH) in the primordial Universe. We have investigated the role of high energy cosmic rays (CRs)…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-07-10 Ellis R. Owen , Kinwah Wu , Xiangyu Jin , Pooja Surajbali , Noriko Kataoka

Does cosmic ray (CR) pressure matter for the circumgalactic medium (CGM)? Despite growing interest, this remains a debated question, complicated by limited observational constraints and differing implementations of CR physics in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-10-27 Manami Roy , Kung-Yi Su , Stephanie Tonnesen , Yue Samuel Lu , Cameron Hummels , Sam B. Ponnada

We investigate the dynamical impact of cosmic rays in cosmological simulations of galaxy formation using adaptive-mesh refinement simulations of a $10^{12}$ solar mass halo. In agreement with previous work, a run with only our standard…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-23 Munier Salem , Greg L. Bryan , Cameron Hummels

Diffusive shock acceleration is the prime candidate for efficient acceleration of cosmic rays. Galactic cosmic rays are believed to originate predominantly from this process in supernova remnant shock waves. Confinement of the cosmic rays…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-10-07 K. M. Schure , A. R. Bell

The rate of terrestrial irradiation events by galactic gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) is estimated using recent standard-energy results. We assume that GRBs accelerate high-energy cosmic rays, and present results of three-dimensional simulations…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Charles D. Dermer , Jeremy M. Holmes

We study the propagation of mildly-relativistic cosmic rays (CRs) in multiphase interstellar medium environments with conditions typical of nearby disk galaxies. We employ the techniques developed in Armillotta+21 to post-process three…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-05-04 Lucia Armillotta , Eve C. Ostriker , Yan-Fei Jiang

It has recently been shown that the highest energy cosmic rays (CRs) may originate in the same cosmological objects producing $\gamma$-ray bursts. This model requires the presence of intergalactic magnetic fields (IGMF) to delay the arrival…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Eli Waxman , Jordi Miralda-Escude

Starburst galaxies have a highly increased star-formation rate compared to regular galaxies and inject huge amounts of kinetic power into the interstellar medium via supersonic stellar winds, and supernova explosions. Supernova remnants,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-07-20 Stefan Ohm

Relativistic charged particles (CR for cosmic-rays) produced by Supernova explosion of the first generation of massive stars that are responsible for the re-ionization of the universe escape into the intergalactic medium, carrying an…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Francesco Miniati , A. R. Bell

Massive stars blow powerful winds and eventually explode as supernovae. By doing so, they inject energy and momentum in the circumstellar medium, which is pushed away from the star and piles up to form a dense and expanding shell of gas.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-07-06 Stefano Gabici

Cosmological simulations show that, at the present time, a substantial fraction of the gas in the intergalactic medium (IGM) has been shock-heated to T>10^5 K. Here we develop an analytic model to describe the fraction of shocked,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Steven Furlanetto , Abraham Loeb