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The Galactic Center is surrounded by two giant plasma lobes known as the Fermi Bubbles, extending ~10 kpc both above and below the Galactic plane. Spectroscopic observations of Fermi Bubble directions at radio, ultraviolet, and optical…

In this study, we analyze giant Galactic spurs seen in both radio and X-ray all-sky maps to reveal their origins. We discuss two types of giant spurs: one is the brightest diffuse emission near the map's center, which is likely to be…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-02-16 Jun Kataoka , Marino Yamamoto , Yuki Nakamura , Soichiro Ito , Yoshiaki Sofue , Yoshiyuki Inoue , Takeshi Nakamori , Tomonori Totani

The formation of supermassive black holes through the gravitational collapse of supermassive objects ($M \ga 10^4 M_\odot$) has been proposed as a source of cosmological gamma-ray bursts. The major advantage of this model is that such…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Kevork Abazajian , George M. Fuller , Xiangdong Shi

The Fermi bubbles are part of a complex region of the Milky Way. This region presents broadband extended non-thermal radiation, apparently coming from a physical structure rooted in the Galactic Centre and with a partly-ordered magnetic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-18 Maxim V. Barkov , Valenti Bosch-Ramon

Context: The recently discovered spherical eROSITA bubbles arise up to a latitude of $\pm$80\deg-85\deg in the X-ray regime of the Milky Way halo. Similar to the $\gamma$-ray Fermi bubbles, they evolve around the Galactic center, making a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-03-05 Tassilo Scheffler , Michael M. Schulreich , David P. P. R. Schurer , Dieter Breitschwerdt

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are extremely energetic events at cosmological distances. They provide unique laboratory to investigate fundamental physical processes under extreme conditions. Due to extreme luminosities, GRBs are detectable at…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-12-21 Poonam Chandra

The successful discovery of X-ray, optical and radio afterglows of GRB has made possible the identification of host galaxies at cosmological distances. The energy release inferred in these outbursts place them among the most energetic and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 P. Meszaros

Eighteen years after their discovery, the astronomical sources and radiation mechanisms of fast radio bursts remain mysterious. Their radiation is as bright as that of pulsars, with brightness temperatures as high as $\sim 10^{36}$ K,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-23 J. I. Katz

The full, radio to $\gamma$-ray spectrum of the Fermi bubbles is shown to be consistent with standard strong-shock electron acceleration at the bubble edge, without the unnatural energy cutoffs and unrealistic electron cooling of previous…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-12-09 Uri Keshet , Ilya Gurwich , Assaf Lavi , Dina Avitan , Teodor Linnik

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are bright flashes of gamma-rays coming from the cosmos. They occur roughly once per day, last typically 10s of seconds and are the most luminous events in the universe. More than three decades after their discovery,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-09-03 Neil Gehrels , Peter Meszaros

The Fermi bubbles, two giant gamma-ray bubbles above and below the Galactic center (GC), are among the most important findings of the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. Because of the proximity, spatially resolved, multi-wavelength…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-12-01 H. -Y. K. Yang , M. Ruszkowski

We report the Chandra detection of X-ray emission spatially coincident with the kpc-scale radio bubbles in the nearby (D_L ~ 31 Mpc) AGN-starburst galaxy NGC 6764. The X-ray emission originates in hot gas (kT ~ 0.75 keV), which may either…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 J. H. Croston , M. J. Hardcastle , P. Kharb , R. P. Kraft , A. Hota

The Fermi and eROSITA bubbles in the Milky Way represent an archetypal case of galactic nucleus feedback, yet their origin remains highly debated. Here we use hydrodynamic simulations to investigate the formation of the "Fermi bubbles" in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-01-09 Shaokun Xie , Fulai Guo , Ruiyu Zhang , B. Mingo , Fangzheng Shi , Jiang-Tao Li

Motivated by the discovery of the non-thermal Fermi bubble features both below and above the Galactic plane, we investigate a scenario in which these bubbles are formed through Galacto-centric outflow. Cosmic rays (CR) both diffusing and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-01-11 Andrew M. Taylor , Gwenael Giacinti

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 $E^{-3}$…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-09-16 Nayantara Gupta , Biman B. Nath , Peter L. Biermann , Eun -Suk Seo , Todor Stanev , Julia Becker Tjus

We report on Suzaku observations of large-scale X-ray structures possibly related with the Fermi Bubbles obtained in 2013 with a total duration of ~ 80 ks. The observed regions were the: (i) northern cap (N-cap; l ~ 0 deg, 45 deg < b < 55…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-23 M. Tahara , J. Kataoka , Y. Takeuchi , T. Totani , Y. Sofue , J. S. Hiraga , H. Tsunemi , Y. Inoue , M. Kimura , C. C. Cheung , S. Nakashima

The galactic diffuse $\gamma$-ray emission, as seen by Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT), shows a sharp peak in the region around 4 kpc from the Galactic center, which can be interpreted either as due to an enhanced density of cosmic-ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-03-23 Giada Peron , Felix Aharonian , Sabrina Casanova , Ruizhi Yang , Roberta Zanin

For more than one year the Fermi Large Area Telescope has been surveying the gamma-ray sky from 20 MeV to more than 300 GeV with unprecedented statistics and angular resolution. One of the key science targets of the Fermi mission is diffuse…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 Luigi Tibaldo

In 2007 we were part of a team that discovered the so-called ``Lorimer Burst'', the first example of a new class of objects now known as fast radio bursts (FRBs). These enigmatic events are only a few ms in duration and occur at random…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-06-12 Duncan R. Lorimer , Maura A. McLaughlin , Matthew Bailes

We analyse processes of particle acceleration in the Fermi Bubbles. The goal of our investigations is to obtain restrictions for acceleration mechanisms. Our analysis of the three processes: acceleration from background plasma,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-18 V. A. Dogiel , K. -S. Cheng , D. O. Chernyshov , C. -M. Ko