Cosmic ray transport in molecular cloud simulations boosts star formation efficiency by up to 43% and yields a top-heavier IMF with a high-mass slope shallower by ~20%.
Interactions of Cosmic Ray Nuclei
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We present convenient formulae for the energy losses of energetic atomic nuclei over the entire energy range relevant to the physics of cosmic rays. Results are applied to a leaky-box equation with a complete loss term. Thereby we derive the equilibrium spectrum of cosmic rays in various types of galaxies. We emphasize a spectral break energy at 450 MeV independent of the matter density, resulting from the transition from Coulomb and ionization losses to pion production losses as the relevant cooling process for the cosmic ray nuclei . We comment on the possible cosmic ray origin of the cosmic gamma ray background.
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The Effects of Cosmic Ray Protons on Galactic Nonthermal Filaments
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SAETASS: Solver for Astroparticle Equation of Transport Analysis in Spherical Symmetry
SAETASS solves the time-dependent astroparticle transport equation in spherical symmetry using a conservative finite-volume, operator-splitting framework, validated against analytical solutions and applied to cosmic-ray proton transport in a stellar-wind bubble.
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Cosmic-Ray Spectra and Metal Budget Regulated by the Galactic Wind
Galactic wind advection with a peak velocity of ~700 km/s reproduces cosmic ray spectral hardening from hundreds of GV and softening from a few TV without diffusion breaks, predicts a hard spectrum (index ~2) at 3-5 kpc altitudes consistent with Fermi bubbles, and shows the wind maintains disk metal