English
Related papers

Related papers: Origin of the Fermi Bubble

200 papers

Fermi has discovered two giant gamma-ray-emitting bubbles that extend nearly 10 kpc in diameter. We propose that periodic star capture processes by the galactic supermassive black hole, Sgr A*, with a capture rate $<10^{-5}$ yr$^{-1}$ and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-09-29 V. A. Dogiel , D. O. Chernyshov , K. -S. Cheng , Y. Wang , C. -M. Ko , W. -H. Ip

The {\it Fermi} Large Area Telescope has recently discovered two giant gamma-ray bubbles which extend north and south of the Galactic center with diameters and heights of the order of $H\sim 10$ kpc. We suggest that the periodic star…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-03 K. S. Cheng , D. O. Chernyshov , V. A. Dogiel , C. M. Ko , W. H. Ip , Y. Wang

One of the most exciting discoveries of recent years is a pair of gigantic gamma-ray emission regions, the so-called Fermi bubbles, above and below the Galactic center. The bubbles, discovered by the Fermi space telescope, extend up to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-23 Satyendra Thoudam

Fermi LAT has discovered two extended gamma-ray bubbles above and below the galactic plane. We propose that their origin is due to the energy release in the Galactic center (GC) as a result of quasi-periodic star accretion onto the central…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2011-09-14 D. O. Chernyshov , K. -S. Cheng , V. A. Dogiel , C. M. Ko , W. -H. Ip , Y. Wang

Recently evidence has emerged for enormous features in the gamma-ray sky observed by the Fermi-LAT instrument: bilateral `bubbles' of emission centered on the core of the Galaxy and extending to around 10 kpc above and below the Galactic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2011-03-24 Roland M. Crocker , Felix Aharonian

Fermi bubbles are giant gamma-ray structures extended north and south of the Galactic center with characteristic sizes of order of 10 kpc recently discovered by Fermi Large Area Telescope. Good correlation between radio and gamma-ray…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-23 D. O. Chernyshov , K. S. Cheng , V. A. Dogiel , C. M. Ko

Recently, the {\it{Fermi}} space telescope has discovered two large $\gamma$-ray emission regions, the so-called "Fermi bubbles", that extend up to $\sim 50^\circ$ above and below the Galactic center. The $\gamma$-ray emission from the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-15 Satyendra Thoudam

Data from the Fermi-LAT reveal two large gamma-ray bubbles, extending 50 degrees above and below the Galactic center, with a width of about 40 degrees in longitude. The gamma-ray emission associated with these bubbles has a significantly…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-01-03 Meng Su , Tracy R. Slatyer , Douglas P. Finkbeiner

The Fermi bubbles were possibly created by large injections of energy into the Galactic Center (GC), either by an active galactic nucleus (AGN) or by nuclear starburst more than ~10 Myr ago. However, the origin of the diffuse gamma-ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-03-12 Jun Kataoka , Yoshiaki Sofue , Yoshiyuki Inoue , Masahiro Akita , Shinya Nakashima , Tomonori Totani

Gamma-ray data from Fermi-LAT reveal a bi-lobular structure extending up to 50 degrees above and below the galactic centre, which presumably originated in some form of energy release there less than a few million years ago. It has been…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-08-26 Philipp Mertsch , Subir Sarkar

Fermi bubbles, the recently observed giant (~10 kpc high) gamma-ray emitting lobes on either side of our Galaxy (Su et al. 2010), appear morphologically connected to the Galactic center, and thus offer a chance to test several models of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2012-01-18 Kastytis Zubovas , Sergei Nayakshin , Andrew King

The $Fermi$ gamma-ray telescope discovered a pair of bubbles at the Galactic center. These structures are spatially-correlated with the microwave emission detected by the WMAP and Planck satellites. These bubbles were likely inflated by a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-18 M. Ruszkowski , H. -Y. K. Yang , E. Zweibel

The Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope reveals two large gamma-ray bubbles in the Galaxy, which extend about 50 degrees (~ 10 kpc) above and below the Galactic center (GC) and are symmetric about the Galactic plane. Using axisymmetric…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-27 Fulai Guo , William G. Mathews

The Fermi bubbles are two lobes filled with non-thermal particles that emit gamma rays, extend $\approx$10 kpc vertically from the Galactic center, and formed from either nuclear star formation or accretion activity on Sgr A*. Simulations…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-09-21 Matthew J. Miller , Joel N. Bregman

A pair of giant gamma-ray bubbles have been revealed by the {\it Fermi} LAT. In this paper we investigate their formation mechanism. Observations have indicated that the activity of the supermassive black hole located at the Galactic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-19 Guobin Mou , Feng Yuan , Defu Bu , Mouyuan Sun , Meng Su

The Fermi bubbles are large gamma-ray-emitting structures. They are symmetric about the Galactic Centre (GC), and their creation is therefore attributed to intensive energy injection at the GC. In this study, we focus on the non-equilibrium…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-12-16 Yutaka Fujita

The discovery of the Fermi bubbles---a huge bilobular structure seen in GeV gamma-rays above and below the Galactic center---implies the presence of a large reservoir of high energy particles at $\sim 10 \, \text{kpc}$ from the disk. The…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-02-27 Philipp Mertsch , Vahé Petrosian

The Fermi bubbles are two giant bubbles in gamma rays lying above and below the Galactic center (GC). Despite numerous studies on the bubbles, their origin and emission mechanism remain elusive. Here we use a suite of hydrodynamic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-05-20 Ruiyu Zhang , Fulai Guo

The origin of the Fermi bubbles, which constitute two gamma-ray emitting lobes above and below the Galactic plane, remains unclear. The possibility that this Fermi bubbles gamma-ray emission originates from hadronic cosmic rays advected by…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-12-07 Olivier Tourmente , Donna Rodgers-Lee , Andrew M. Taylor

The Fermi bubbles, two giant structures above and below the Galactic center (GC), are among the most important discoveries of the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. Studying their physical origin has been providing valuable insights into…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-03-02 H. -Y. K. Yang , M. Ruszkowski , E. G. Zweibel
‹ Prev 1 2 3 10 Next ›