Title
Cosmic rays in star-forming galaxies: transport, feedback, and non-thermal messengers


Abstract: Supernovae ultimately deposit ~10% of their total energy in a population of relativistic cosmic rays that subsequently interact with the interstellar medium (ISM) via magnetic forces. Because these particles lose energy to radiation only slowly compared to the ~90% of the supernova energy that is deposited in the ISM as heat, they are a potentially important feedback mechanism in galaxies despite their comparatively small energy budget. Their effectiveness, however, depends crucially on the poorly-understood plasma processes that couple them to the bulk, neutral ISM. In this talk I introduce a new, physically-motivated model for the coupling between cosmic rays and the neutral, star-forming ISM, and show that it successfully predicts the gamma-ray spectra of resolved nearby galaxies, the galactic IR-gamma correlation, and the cosmological gamma-ray background. I conclude by exploring the implications of this model for the importance of cosmic ray feedback, demonstrating that this mechanism is likely unimportant for rapidly star-forming galaxies either today or in the early universe, but may be critical for local dwarfs and quiescent spirals

Kartick Sarkar is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.
Topic: HUJI astro-lunch
https://huji.zoom.us/j/84740565269?pwd=R2o3Vk9BUFRGZ0hzT3B6Zm9USmthQT09
 
Meeting ID: 847 4056 5269
Passcode: w31c0m3

Meeting recordings: Part1 , Part2