activity
20242026
collaborators

6 papers

astro-ph.HE2026

Time-dependent cosmic-ray escape from wind bubbles: hard spectra formation

Lukas Merten, Sophie Aerdker, Enrico Peretti

Overview: Wind-driven bubbles are dynamic systems that can accelerate cosmic rays, depending on their physical properties, up to very high energies. We investigate how a time-depen…

physics.plasm-ph2025

Modelling cosmic-ray transport: magnetised versus unmagnetised motion in astrophysical magnetic turbulence

Jeremiah Lübke, Patrick Reichherzer, Sophie Aerdker +4

Cosmic-ray transport in turbulent astrophysical environments remains a multifaceted problem and, despite decades of study, the impact of complex magnetic field geometry -- evident…

astro-ph.HE2025

CRPropa 3.3: Toward a Unified Multi-Messenger Framework from GeV to ZeV Energies

Sophie Aerdker, Rafael Alves Batista, Julia Becker Tjus +11

We present CRPropa 3.3, the latest release of the publicly available Monte Carlo framework for simulating the propagation of high-energy particles in astrophysical environments. Th…

astro-ph.HE2025

Spectra for the Vacuum Cherenkov Effect in Astrophysical Electromagnetic Cascades with Lorentz Invariance Violation

Andrey Saveliev, Rafael Alves Batista, Feodor Mishin

Lorentz invariance violation is a feature of several quantum gravity models in which Lorentz symmetry is broken at high energies, possibly leading to changes in particle behavior a…

astro-ph.HE2025

Cosmic ray transport and acceleration in an evolving shock landscape

Sophie Aerdker, Roark Habegger, Lukas Merten +2

The sources of cosmic rays between the knee and the ankle are still debated. The Galactic wind and its termination shock have been proposed to contribute to this transition between…

astro-ph.HE2024

Modeling Cosmic-Ray Transport: A CRPropa based stochastic differential equation solver

Lukas Merten, Sophie Aerdker

We present a new code that significantly extends CRPropa's capabilities to model the ensemble averaged transport of charged cosmic rays in arbitrary turbulent magnetic fields. The…