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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 5.

Two-dimensional probability density functions of cosmic-ray energy density, Ec, and plasma density, ρ, p(Ecρ∣Pms, Pmc), with the probability density shown via the color and conditional over specific choices of Pms and Pmc. The rows show runs with increasing microphysical diffusion Prandtl numbers Pmc ∈ {0.0045, 0.45, 45, 4500}  from top to bottom. The columns show increasing ﹩{{ \mathcal M }}_{{\rm{A}}0}﹩ for sub-, trans-, and super-Alfvénic turbulence from left to right. In the top two rows and two rightmost columns (strong coupling regime) we plot Ec ∝ ρ4/3 and Ec ∝ ρ2/3 trendlines, representing the equation of state of a relativistic fluid and the modifications to the equation of state through streaming, respectively.

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