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Cosmic-Ray and Plasma Coupling for Isothermal Supersonic Turbulence in the Magnetized Interstellar Medium

  • Authors: Matt L. Sampson, James R. Beattie, Romain Teyssier, Philipp Kempski, Eric R. Moseley, Benoit Commerçon, Yohan Dubois, Joakim Rosdahl

Matt L. Sampson et al 2026 The Astrophysical Journal 1001 .

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Caption: Figure 4.

Top row: the same as Figure 3 for the logarithmic, mean-normalized plasma density, ﹩s=\mathrm{log}(\rho /{\rho }_{0})﹩. In the top right panel, we show log-normal models for the density fluctuations for mixed-driving ﹩{ \mathcal M }\approx 4﹩ turbulence without any influence from the CRs (﹩{ \mathcal M }﹩ theory) and with an effect from the CRs by changing the plasma effective sound speed directly from the CR Pc ∝ ρ4/3 equation of state (﹩{{ \mathcal M }}_{{\rm{eff}}}﹩ theory), showing that the density fluctuations are bounded between these limits. Second row: the parallel components of the Alfvén velocity, ﹩{{\boldsymbol{v}}}_{{\rm{A}},\parallel }={{\boldsymbol{B}}}_{\parallel }/\sqrt{\rho }﹩. Bottom row: the perpendicular components of the Alfvén velocity, ﹩{{\boldsymbol{v}}}_{{\rm{A}},\perp }={{\boldsymbol{B}}}_{\perp }/\sqrt{\rho }﹩. Note: the limits for the x-axis of the rightmost vA panels have been reduced for better visual comparison between runs in the super-Alfvénic regime.

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