Cosmic-ray Transport in Magnetohydrodynamic Turbulence

Maiti, Snehanshu and Makwana, Kirit and Zhang, Heshou and et al, . (2022) Cosmic-ray Transport in Magnetohydrodynamic Turbulence. The Astrophysical Journal, 926 (1). pp. 1-8. ISSN 0004-637X

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Abstract

This paper studies cosmic-ray (CR) transport in magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence. CR transport is strongly dependent on the properties of the magnetic turbulence. We perform test particle simulations to study the interactions of CR with both total MHD turbulence and decomposed MHD modes. The spatial diffusion coefficients and the pitch angle scattering diffusion coefficients are calculated from the test particle trajectories in turbulence. Our results confirm that the fast modes dominate the CR propagation, whereas Alfvén and slow modes are much less efficient and have shown similar pitch-angle scattering rates. We investigate the cross field transport on large and small scales. On large/global scales, normal diffusion is observed and the diffusion coefficient is suppressed by MAζ compared to the parallel diffusion coefficients, with ζ closer to 4 in Alfvén modes than that in total turbulence, as theoretically expected. For the CR transport on scales smaller than the turbulence injection scale, both the local and global magnetic reference frames are adopted. Superdiffusion is observed on such small scales in all the cases. Particularly, CR transport in Alfvén modes show clear Richardson diffusion in the local reference frame. The diffusion transitions smoothly from the Richardson's one with index 1.5 to normal diffusion as the particle mean free path decreases from λ≥ ≫ L to λ ≥ L, where L is the injection/coherence length of turbulence. Our results have broad applications to CRs in various astrophysical environments. © 2022. The Author(s). Published by the American Astronomical Society.

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IITH Creators:

IITH Creators	ORCiD
Makwana, Kirit	https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4430-931X

Item Type:

Article

Additional Information:

The work is supported by the base funding from DESY. The authors thank the anonymous referee for their valuable comments, which has helped improve the quality of the paper. We acknowledge helpful communications with S. Malik.

Uncontrolled Keywords:

cosmic-ray (CR) transport, magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence, spatial diffusion coefficients.

Subjects:

Physics

Divisions:

Department of Physics

Depositing User:

. LibTrainee 2021

Date Deposited:

13 Jul 2022 10:48

Last Modified:

13 Jul 2022 10:48