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An extensive program for the calculation of galactic cosmic-ray propagation has been developed. Primary and secondary nucleons, primary and secondary electrons, and secondary positrons are included. The basic spatial propagation mechanisms…

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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

Numerical methods for radiative transfer play a key role in modern-day astrophysics and cosmology, including study of the inhomogeneous reionization process. In this context, ray tracing methods are well-regarded for accuracy but notorious…

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We present a hydrodynamical code based on the Smooth Particle Hydrodynamics technique implemented in an AP3M code aimed at solving the hydrodynamical and gravitational equations in a cosmological frame. We analyze the ability of the code to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-17 P. B. Tissera , D. G. Lambas , M. G. Abadi

We investigate a mechanism for accelerating cool (10$^4$ K) clouds in the circumgalactic medium (CGM) with cosmic rays (CRs), possibly explaining some characteristics of observed high velocity clouds (HVCs). Enforcing CRs to stream down…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-07-31 Joshua Wiener , Ellen G. Zweibel , Mateusz Ruszkowski

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

Recent advances in understanding of magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence call for revisions in the picture of cosmic ray transport. In this paper we use recently obtained scaling laws for MHD modes to obtain the scattering frequency for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Huirong Yan , A. Lazarian

Cosmological hydrodynamic simulations of large scale structure in the universe have shown that accretion shocks and merger shocks form due to flow motions associated with the gravitational collapse of nonlinear structures. Estimated speed…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Hyesung Kang , T. W. Jones

The properties of the Galactic supernova remnant SN 1006 are theoretically reanalysed. Nonlinear kinetic theory is used to determine the acceleration efficiency of cosmic rays (CRs) in the supernova remnant SN 1006. The known range of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-03-22 E. G. Berezhko , L. T. Ksenofontov , H. J. Voelk

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

We describe an extension of the cosmological hydrodynamics code ENZO to include the self-consistent transport of ionizing radiation modeled in the flux-limited diffusion approximation. A novel feature of our algorithm is a coupled implicit…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Michael L. Norman , Daniel R. Reynolds , Geoffrey C. So

A numerical scheme that incorporates a thermal leakage injection model into a combined gas dynamics and cosmic ray (CR, hereafter) diffusion-convection code has been developed. The particle injection is followed numerically by filtering the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Hyesung Kang , T. W. Jones , U. D. J. Gieseler

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

We present a numerical algorithm for the incorporation of the active cosmic ray transport, into the ZEUS-3D magnetohydrodynamical code. The cosmic ray transport is described by the diffusion-advection equation. The applied form of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 M. Hanasz , H. Lesch

An extensive program for the calculation of galactic cosmic-ray propagation has been developed. This is a continuation of the work described in Strong & Youssefi (1995). The main motivation for developing this code is the prediction of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 A. W. Strong , I. V. Moskalenko

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

The acceleration of ultra high energy cosmic rays is conjectured to occur through various interactions with the electromagnetic fields in different astrophysical objects, like magnetic matter clumps, besides the well-known shock and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-03-18 A. Tawfik , A. Saleh , M. T. Ghoneim , A. A. Hady

A new cosmological multidimensional hydrodynamic and N-body code based on an Adaptive Mesh Refinement scheme is described and tested. The hydro part is based on modern high-resolution shock-capturing techniques, whereas N-body approach is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Vicent Quilis

We have developed a cosmic ray (CR) shock code in one dimensional spherical geometry with which the particle distribution, the gas flow and their nonlinear interaction can be followed numerically in a frame comoving with an expanding shock.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Hyesung Kang , T. W. Jones

The study of Galactic diffuse $\gamma$ radiation combined with the knowledge of the distribution of the molecular hydrogen in the Galaxy offers a unique tool to probe the cosmic ray flux in the Galaxy. A methodology to study the level of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 S. Casanova , S. Gabici , F. A. Aharonian , K. Torii , Y. Fukui , T. Onishi , H. Yamamoto , A. Kawamura