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Pith's one-line read The paper shows that thermal instability in halo gas heated by streaming cosmic rays is controlled by the ratio of cosmic-ray pressure to gas pressure, and that the unstable modes oscillate at the Alfvén speed rather than growing…

desk verdict A careful and explicit linear stability analysis that corrects earlier CR-heated TI work and maps out the parameter space; the main caveat is the assumed Alfvén-speed streaming transport. read the letter →

arxiv 1908.10367 v2 pith:74A3OIVE submitted 2019-08-27 astro-ph.GA astro-ph.HE

Philipp Kempski , Eliot Quataert This is my paper · ORCID
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keywords thermalinstabilitycosmic-raystreamingAlfvénspeedgalaxyhalosmultiphasegasdiffusionphotoionizationequilibriumcollisionalionization
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The reading

The paper asks whether thermal instability can still fragment hot halo gas when that gas is heated by cosmic rays streaming down their pressure gradient. It argues that the answer is controlled by one number, $\eta=p_c/p_g$: at small $\eta$ perturbations are isobaric and the usual growth rates apply, while at large $\eta$ they are isochoric. The perturbed cosmic-ray heating term does not change growth rates much, but it makes every thermally unstable mode oscillate at a frequency of order the Alfvén speed, so the instability is formally an overstability even in a uniform medium. This matters because galaxy halos, groups, and clusters show cold multiphase gas whose origin may be thermal instability; the paper shows when CR heating permits that instability and when it suppresses it.

What carries the argument

The machinery is the linearized system built from the gas and cosmic-ray pressure equations. In the high-$\beta$ limit the dispersion relation reduces to a quadratic in the mode frequency $\omega$, coupling $\delta p_c$ and $\delta p_g$ through pressure balance $\delta p_c\approx-\delta p_g$. The organizing parameter is $\eta=p_c/p_g$, which decides whether the eigenmode is isobaric or isochoric. The frequency $\omega_a=\mathbf{k}\cdot\mathbf{v}_A$ appears through the perturbed CR heating and supplies the real part of the entropy mode, while $\omega_d=\kappa(\hat{\mathbf{b}}\cdot\mathbf{k})^2$ parametrizes diffusion and can damp a band of unstable wavenumbers, giving a CR Field length $\lambda_{\rm CRF}\sim 2\pi|\hat{\mathbf{b}}\cdot\hat{\mathbf{k}}|\sqrt{\eta\kappa/\omega_c}$ for $\eta<1$ when $\kappa\omega_c/(\eta v_A^2)\lesssim1$.

What would settle it

Numerically solve the linearized gas-plus-cosmic-ray equations in a uniform, high-$\beta$, CR-heated background with $\kappa=0$, cooling slope $\Lambda_T=-1$, and $\eta=1$. The paper predicts the gas entropy mode has frequency $\omega\approx-(2/3)\omega_a-(2/3)i\Lambda_T\omega_c$, so the unstable mode oscillates at the Alfvén frequency; if the mode is purely growing with no real oscillatory part at finite $\eta$, the central overstability claim is wrong.

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Core claim

The central claim is that in a plasma heated by streaming cosmic rays, linear thermal stability is governed by the ratio of cosmic-ray pressure to gas pressure, $\eta=p_c/p_g$, through the coupling of the perturbed CR pressure to density. In the high-$\beta$ limit the entropy mode obeys a quadratic dispersion relation combining the gas and CR energy equations. For $\eta\ll1$ the mode is isobaric with growth rate $(2/5)(2-\Lambda_T)\omega_c$; for $\eta\gg1$ it is isochoric with growth rate $-(2/3)\Lambda_T\omega_c$. In both regimes CR streaming introduces an oscillation frequency $\omega_a=\mathbf{k}\cdot\mathbf{v}_A$ in the gas entropy mode, so thermal instability is an overstability. CR diffusion can suppress instability in an intermediate band of $\eta$ and wavenumber, acting effectively like thermal conduction with a CR Field length, but only when $\kappa\omega_c/(\eta v_A^2)\lesssim1$. In gravitationally stratified halos, the convective-instability criterion takes the Schwarzschild form $d s_{\rm eff}/dz<0$ with $s_{\rm eff}=\ln(p_g/\rho^{5/3})+\eta\ln(p_c/\rho^{4/3})$, and the entropy-mode oscillation frequency can exceed the free-fall frequency.

Load-bearing premise

The conclusions assume cosmic rays stream down their pressure gradient at exactly the Alfvén speed, with any residual transport captured by a constant diffusion coefficient along the magnetic field; if super-Alfvénic or non-diffusive transport dominates, the predicted heating perturbations and stability boundaries would change.

Editorial extensions

If this is right

  • In collisional-ionization-equilibrium halo gas, which has a cooling slope $\Lambda_T<0$, cosmic-ray heating does not stabilize thermal instability for realistic $\eta$; multiphase cold gas can still condense.
  • Thermally unstable perturbations in CR-heated gas are not stationary growing modes but waves traveling at roughly the Alfvén speed once $\eta\sim1$, so the condensation process carries an intrinsic oscillation.
  • Cosmic-ray diffusion suppresses thermal instability only in a limited range of parameters, and for $\kappa\omega_c/(\eta v_A^2)\gtrsim1$ even high-wavenumber perturbations remain isobarically unstable; there is no universal CR Field length.
  • In gravitationally stratified halos the CR-driven entropy-mode frequency can exceed the free-fall frequency, which would shift the critical $t_{\rm cool}/t_{\rm ff}$ quoted for multiphase gas formation.
  • A stratified CR-heated medium is convectively unstable exactly when $d s_{\rm eff}/dz<0$, giving a Schwarzschild-like criterion that depends only on gas and CR pressure scale heights.

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Editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • A direct test of the overstability claim is a nonlinear CR-MHD simulation of a cooling parcel with streaming at $v_A$: if the saturated condensation develops coherent oscillations at the local Alfvén frequency, the linear prediction is borne out.
  • The CR Field length implies a minimum clump size when streaming is subdominant; comparing observed sizes of cold circumgalactic-medium clouds with $\lambda_{\rm CRF}$ for adopted $\kappa$ and $\eta$ could constrain the diffusion coefficient.
  • Because photoionization-equilibrium gas is predicted to be always stable while collisional-ionization-equilibrium gas is usually unstable, the mere existence of cold gas in a halo becomes a diagnostic of the dominant ionization and heating balance, apart from CR pressure.
  • If the correct transport is super-Alfvénic streaming rather than $v_A$ streaming plus constant diffusion, the perturbed heating term changes and the predicted oscillation frequencies and stability maps would need to be recomputed; this is the natural next step the paper leaves open.
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Summary. The paper presents a linear thermal stability analysis of dilute plasma heated by streaming cosmic rays, modeled with the standard gas-CR fluid equations (1)-(5). It treats three equilibria: a uniform background with unspecified heating balancing cooling (Section 4), a background in which CR heating balances radiative cooling (Section 5), and a gravitationally stratified CR-heated background (Section 6). The central variables are eta = p_c/p_g and beta, and the characteristic frequencies omega_c, omega_a, omega_d, and omega_ff. The main results are: (i) thermal instability growth rates depend strongly on eta, with perturbations isobaric for eta<<1 and isochoric for eta>>1; (ii) the perturbed CR heating term introduces oscillations at the Alfven frequency, making thermally unstable modes overstable for k dot B != 0; (iii) CR diffusion suppresses a finite band of modes and can introduce a CR Field length; (iv) gas in photoionization equilibrium is thermally stable for any eta, whereas CIE halo gas is generally unstable; and (v) a stratified CR-heated medium obeys a Schwarzschild-like convective instability criterion d s_eff/dz < 0. The analytic asymptotic limits (28)-(29), (40)-(41), and (43)-(44) are checked against the numerical solutions shown in Figures 2-3.

Significance. This is a careful and largely self-contained derivation that corrects and extends earlier heuristic treatments (e.g., Pfrommer 2013) by perturbing the CR energy equation consistently. The explicit linearization (20)-(24), the high-beta quadratic (25), and the asymptotic limits are mutually consistent, and the agreement with the full numerical solution in Figure 2 supports the central claim. The results are physically useful: they give falsifiable stability boundaries in the (eta, omega_d/omega_a) plane, identify the CR Field length, and predict an overstability frequency proportional to the Alfven speed. A notable strength is that the stability boundaries are derived rather than fitted; the only fits, equations (35) and (47), are descriptive broken power laws for the numerically computed Lambda_T,c. The main caveat is the adopted CR transport model: streaming exactly at v_A with a constant parallel diffusion coefficient kappa (Section 2.2). If super-Alfvenic streaming or non-diffusive transport dominates, the perturbed CR heating response changes and the predicted overstability frequencies and diffusion-sensitive boundaries would shift.

minor comments (7)
  1. [Section 4.1, footnote 3] In footnote 3, 'equlibrium' should be 'equilibrium', and the notation delta Q/Q should be defined explicitly or by example, since it is not immediately clear which fluid variables are included in Q.
  2. [Section 6.3.1, Eq. (49)] In Eq. (49) and the surrounding paragraph, delta appears to denote Lagrangian perturbations, whereas everywhere else in the paper (e.g., Eqs. 20-24 and Appendix C) delta denotes Eulerian perturbations. Please state this explicitly or use a different symbol such as Delta for Lagrangian perturbations; as printed, the triple equality in Eq. (49) is confusing and could be misread as an inconsistency.
  3. [Section 4.6 and Appendix B] The sentence 'CR diffusion does not suppress the overall excitation of thermal instability' is ambiguous because Figure 3 shows a broad region where diffusion does suppress instability. Rephrase to indicate that diffusion does not suppress the instability of all modes, but rather of a range of modes.
  4. [Eq. (34)] There is an extra comma inside the parenthetical factor: '(omega_c/10^-15 s^-1,)^-1/2' should read '(omega_c/10^-15 s^-1)^-1/2'.
  5. [Abstract and Section 7] The acronym CIE is used without definition at first use; define 'collisional ionization equilibrium (CIE)' when it first appears, and keep the terminology consistent with the abstract.
  6. [Section 5.1] The statement that 'the cosmic-ray pressure equation (5) then implies that p_c proportional to rho^2/3' is not immediately obvious; add a brief derivation or a pointer to the relevant equations so the reader can verify this background relation.
  7. [Sections 4-6] The full dispersion relation is not written out, and the numerical eigenvalue solutions depend on MATLAB; for reproducibility, consider providing the code as supplementary material or an appendix.

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No significant circularity; stability boundaries and overstability frequencies follow from the stated fluid equations and tabulated external cooling functions.

full rationale

The paper's central results are derived by linearizing the gas-CR equations (1)-(5) and solving the resulting eigenvalue problem, rather than by fitting to a target. The eta-dependent isobaric/isochoric transition, the O(omega_a) oscillation of thermally unstable modes, the diffusion-modified stability maps, and the PIE/CIE stability conclusions all follow from the dispersion relations (25) and (38) and their asymptotic limits (28)-(29) and (39)-(41). The only fitted expressions, equations (35) and (47), are descriptive broken power-law fits to the computed Lambda_T,c(eta) boundary and do not enter any derivation. External inputs are standard: the CR transport model (streaming at v_A plus constant kappa) is stated as an assumption, and the stability conclusions for PIE/CIE use Lambda_T > 2 from Wiersma et al. (2009) and Lambda_T < 0 in the 1e5-1e7 K range from Draine (2011). Author self-citations (e.g., McCourt et al. 2012; Sharma et al. 2012) are contextual and not load-bearing; no uniqueness theorem is invoked from prior work. The uniform-medium and CR-heated-background results agree with the full numerical eigenvalues shown in Figure 2, and the Appendix E convective-instability calculation independently recovers the Schwarzschild-like criterion (51). No step reduces by construction to its own input.

Assumptions & free parameters 5 free parameters · 7 assumptions · 0 invented entities

All results follow from the linearized gas-CR MHD equations without a fitted target result. The free parameters are either illustrative fiducial values or descriptive broken-power-law fits of the numerically computed stability boundary. The assumptions are standard and explicitly flagged.

free parameters (5)
  • eta* and q in Lambda_T,c broken power law (uniform medium, eq. 35) = eta* = 1.62, q = -1.19
    Best-fit parameters describing the numerically computed stability boundary Lambda_T,c(eta); descriptive fit, not used to derive stability conditions.
  • eta* and q in Lambda_T,c broken power law (CR-heated background, eq. 47) = eta* = 1.19, q = -1.13
    Best-fit parameters for the stability boundary in the CR-heated background; descriptive fit.
  • fiducial omega_a/omega_c = 10^3
    Adopted in Figure 2; chosen to satisfy the local WKB ordering, results are insensitive for omega_a greater than about omega_c or omega_c/eta.
  • fiducial beta = 100
    Adopted for plots; results depend only mildly on beta for beta greater than about 3.
  • fiducial omega_ff/omega_c = 20
    Motivated by observed cluster halos with t_cool/t_ff less than about 10; used in the gravity section and Figure 5.
assumptions (7)
  • domain assumption CRs stream down their pressure gradient at the Alfvén speed v_A, giving the heating rate -v_A dot grad p_c (self-confinement limit of the streaming instability).
    Adopted in eqs. (2), (4), and (5) and throughout; if super-Alfvénic streaming dominates, the perturbed heating term changes.
  • domain assumption The high-beta limit delta_pc approximately equals -delta_pg holds for the analytic dispersion relations, verified numerically for beta greater than about 3.
    Used in Section 4.3, eq. (25), and Section 5.2, eq. (38); Figures 2 and 3 show agreement with the exact solution at beta = 100 and beta = 3.
  • domain assumption Local WKB ordering: omega_s much greater than omega_c and omega_ff, and omega_a much greater than omega_c (unless k dot B = 0).
    Eqs. (14)-(15) restrict the analysis to local perturbations with kH much greater than 1; growth rates are stated for this regime.
  • domain assumption Cooling functions: collisional ionization equilibrium has Lambda_T less than or about 0 at 10^5 to 10^7 K (Draine 2011); photoionization equilibrium has Lambda_T greater than 2 (Wiersma et al. 2009).
    Used to conclude that CIE gas is thermally unstable and PIE gas is stable (Sections 4.8 and 7).
  • domain assumption The background with CR heating balancing cooling has grad p_c = -grad p_g (hydrostatic equilibrium, no gravity) and p_c proportional to rho^(2/3).
    Section 5.1, eqs. (36)-(37); needed for the non-uniform equilibrium calculation.
  • domain assumption For the convective criterion, the rising blob is adiabatic, requiring omega_c less than omega_ff and omega_a less than omega_ff.
    Section 6.3.1; the criterion is also derived from the linearized equations in Appendix E.
  • standard math Linear perturbation theory with Fourier modes exp(ik dot r - i omega t) is valid for small perturbations.
    Standard method used throughout Sections 4-6.

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  title        = {Pith review of: Thermal Instability of Halo Gas Heated by Streaming Cosmic Rays},
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abstract

Heating of virialized gas by streaming cosmic rays (CRs) may be energetically important in galaxy halos, groups and clusters. We present a linear thermal stability analysis of plasmas heated by streaming CRs. We separately treat equilibria with and without background gradients, and with and without gravity. We include both CR streaming and diffusion along the magnetic-field direction. Thermal stability depends strongly on the ratio of CR pressure to gas pressure, which determines whether modes are isobaric or isochoric. Modes with $\mathbf{k \cdot B }\neq 0$ are strongly affected by CR diffusion. When the streaming time is shorter than the CR diffusion time, thermally unstable modes (with $\mathbf{k \cdot B }\neq 0$) are waves propagating at a speed $\propto$ the Alfv\'en speed. Halo gas in photoionization equilibrium is thermally stable independent of CR pressure, while gas in collisional ionization equilibrium is unstable for physically realistic parameters. In gravitationally stratified plasmas, the oscillation frequency of thermally overstable modes can be higher in the presence of CR streaming than the buoyancy/free-fall frequency. This may modify the critical $t_{\rm cool}/t_{\rm ff}$ at which multiphase gas is present. The criterion for convective instability of a stratified, CR-heated medium can be written in the familiar Schwarzschild form $d s_{\rm eff} / d z < 0$, where $s_{\rm eff}$ is an effective entropy involving the gas and CR pressures. We discuss the implications of our results for the thermal evolution and multiphase structure of galaxy halos, groups and clusters.

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Figures reproduced from arXiv: 1908.10367 by the authors.

Figure 1
Figure 1. Top: CR heating versus cooling as a function of η (eq. 6) and β (eq. 7). R is the ratio of CR heating to radiative cooling (eq. 18; here we use ωff = 20ωc and Hc = 3H), and increases with increasing CR pressure fraction η and with decreasing β. The white dashed line indicates the approximate region where cosmic￾ray heating is comparable to cooling (R ∼ 1). Bottom: Order-of￾magnitude estimate of the CR pressure fract… view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Thermal instability growth rates as a function of η. Im(ω) > 0 corresponds to growing modes. Unless explicitly stated otherwise in the plots, the presented growth rates are for our fiducial parameters (ωa = 103ωc and β = 100). We consider smaller ωa in the left panels (with β = 100 fixed) and smaller β in the middle panels (with ωa = 103ωc fixed). Top panels: Thermal instability in uniform medium. Left: growth/dampi… view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Effect of CR diffusion on thermal instability. We show thermal stability/instability boundaries of modes with k · B , 0 in the (η, ωd/ωa) plane, for ωa = 103ωc and β → ∞ (the fiducial β = 100 case looks the same). Im(ω) > 0 (growing modes) are shown in red, Im(ω) < 0 (decaying modes) are shown in blue. Top panels: Stability/instability boundaries in uniform medium. Left: ΛT = −1. Right: ΛT = 1/2. The dark blue shows… view at source ↗
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Figure 4
Figure 4. Figure 4: ΛT,c versus η ≡ pc /pg, where ΛT,c is the ∂ ln Λ/∂ lnT that defines the boundary between overall thermal stability and instability. For a given η, thermal instability occurs if ΛT < ΛT,c . Top: ΛT,c in a uniform medium. Bottom: ΛT,c in a medium with background CR heati…
Figure 5
Figure 5. Figure 5: Thermal and convective instability of gravitationally stratified plasmas with ωff = 20ωc , β = 10 and ωa = 0 (blue and orange lines). Buoyancy-driven instability occurs when η satis￾fies eq. 51 (vertical dashed line). The dashed curve shows the approximate growth rate …
Figure 6
Figure 6. Figure 6: Convective stability/instability boundary in the (β, η) plane for two choices of ωff cos θB /ωc , where θB is the angle between the z-axis (direction of gravity and pressure gradients) and the magnetic field. For a given choice of ωff cos θB /ωc , there is a maximum β …

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