Cosmic ray streaming in the turbulent interstellar medium
arXiv:2112.06941 · doi:10.3847/1538-4357/ac4dfd
Abstract
We study the streaming instability of GeVGeV cosmic rays (CRs) and its damping in the turbulent interstellar medium (ISM). We find that the damping of streaming instability is dominated by ion-neutral collisional damping in weakly ionized molecular clouds, turbulent damping in the highly ionized warm medium, and nonlinear Landau damping in the Galactic halo. Only in the Galactic halo, is the streaming speed of CRs close to the Alfvén speed. Alfvénic turbulence plays an important role in both suppressing the streaming instability and regulating the diffusion of streaming CRs via magnetic field line tangling, with the effective mean free path of streaming CRs in the observer frame determined by the Alfvénic scale in super-Alfvénic turbulence. The resulting diffusion coefficient is sensitive to Alfvén Mach number, which has a large range of values in the multi-phase ISM. Super-Alfvénic turbulence contributes to additional confinement of streaming CRs, irrespective of the dominant damping mechanism.
arXiv comment11 pages, 4 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ
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