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CR压力各向异性驱动的陀螺共振不稳定性的动力学MHD模拟

Kinetic-MHD simulations of gyroresonance instability driven by CR pressure anisotropy

Olga Lebiga, Reinaldo Santos-Lima, Huirong Yan

摘要:

宇宙射线(CR)的传输对于理解几乎所有的高能现象都是至关重要的。既有大尺度磁流体动力学(MHD)湍流,也有通过等离子体不稳定性产生的局部湍流,这两种湍流对CR在天体物理介质中的传播都很重要。由CR压力各向异性触发的共振不稳定性在调节低能CR($\lesssim 100$ GeV)在星际和星系团内介质(ISM和ICM)中的平行空间扩散中的潜在作用已经在以前的理论工作中被证明。本文旨在通过直接数值模拟研究陀螺共振不稳定性,以定量地获得波粒散射率。为此,我们采用一维PIC-MHD代码来跟踪陀螺共振不稳定性的增长和饱和。我们从模拟中提取的俯仰角扩散系数$D_{μμ}$产生的不稳定性在线性和饱和阶段,和一个非常好的协议(3倍内)被发现与准线性理论(QLT)预测的值。我们的研究结果支持QLT的适用性建模的低能量CRs的散射的回旋共振不稳定性,这种不稳定性和大规模的MHD湍流之间的复杂的相互作用。

英文摘要:

The transport of cosmic rays (CRs) is crucial for the understanding of almost all high-energy phenomena. Both pre-existing large-scale magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence and locally generated turbulence through plasma instabilities are important for the CR propagation in astrophysical media. The potential role of the resonant instability triggered by CR pressure anisotropy to regulate the parallel spatial diffusion of low-energy CRs ($\lesssim 100$ GeV) in the interstellar and intracluster medium of galaxies (ISM and ICM) has been showed in previous theoretical works. This work aims to study the gyroresonance instability via direct numerical simulations, in order to access quantitatively the wave-particle scattering rates. For this we employ a 1D PIC-MHD code to follow the growth and saturation of the gyroresonance instability. We extract from the simulations the pitch-angle diffusion coefficient $D_{μμ}$ produced by the instability during the linear and saturation phases, and a very good agreement (within a factor of 3) is found with the values predicted by the quasilinear theory (QLT). Our results support the applicability of the QLT for modeling the scattering of low-energy CRs by the gyroresonance instability in the complex interplay between this instability and the large-scale MHD turbulence.

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