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The Galactic Wind Haze and its $\gamma$-spectrum

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena 2013-09-16 v2 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

We study the possibility that the gamma ray emission in the Fermi bubbles observed is produced by cosmic ray electrons with a spectrum similar to Galactic cosmic rays. We argue that the cosmic ray electrons steepen near 1 TeV from E3E^{-3} to about E4.2E^{-4.2}, and are partially secondaries derived from the knee-feature of normal cosmic rays. We speculate that the observed feature at 130\sim 130 GeV could essentially be due to inverse Compton emission off a pair-production peak on top of a turn-off in the γ\gamma ray spectrum at 130\sim 130 GeV. It suggests that the knee of normal cosmic rays is the same everywhere in the Galaxy. A consequence could be that all supernovae contributing give the same cosmic ray spectrum, with the knee feature given by common stellar properties; in fact, this is consistent with the supernova theory proposed by Bisnovatyi-Kogan (1970), a magneto-rotational mechanism, if massive stars converge to common properties in terms of rotation and magnetic fields just before they explode.

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@article{arxiv.1301.4405,
  title  = {The Galactic Wind Haze and its $\gamma$-spectrum},
  author = {Nayantara Gupta and Biman B. Nath and Peter L. Biermann and Eun -Suk Seo and Todor Stanev and Julia Becker Tjus},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1301.4405},
  year   = {2013}
}

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16 pages, 2 figures, more discussions added

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