English

Cosmic ray propagation in galactic turbulence

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena 2015-06-17 v2

Abstract

We revisit propagation of galactic cosmic rays (CRs) in light of recent advances in CR diffusion theory in realistic interstellar turbulence. We use a tested model of turbulence in which it has been shown that fast modes dominate scattering of CRs. As a result, propagation becomes inhomogeneous and environment dependent. By adopting the formalism of the nonlinear theory developed by Yan & Lazarian, we calculate the diffusion of CRs self-consistently from first principles. We assume a two- phase model for the Galaxy to account for different damping mechanisms of the fast modes, and we find that the energy dependence of the diffusion coefficient is mainly affected by medium properties. We show that it gives a correct framework to interpret some of the recent CR puzzles.

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@article{arxiv.1310.5732,
  title  = {Cosmic ray propagation in galactic turbulence},
  author = {Carmelo Evoli and Huirong Yan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1310.5732},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

6 pages, 4 figures. Accepted for publication on ApJ

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