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We investigate the nature of the diffuse Galactic emission in the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) temperature anisotropy data. Substantial dust-correlated emission is observed at all WMAP frequencies, far exceeding the expected…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-07-09 Douglas P. Finkbeiner

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

Gamma rays and microwave observations of the Galactic Center and surrounding areas indicate the presence of anomalous emission, whose origin remains ambiguous. The possibility of dark matter (DM) annihilation explaining both signals through…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-28 Andrey E. Egorov , Jennifer M. Gaskins , Elena Pierpaoli , Davide Pietrobon

A generic prediction in the paradigm of weakly interacting dark matter is the production of relativistic particles from dark matter pair-annihilation in regions of high dark matter density. Ultra-relativistic electrons and positrons…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-11-20 Tim Linden , Stefano Profumo , Brandon Anderson

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

This paper proposes a short review on our knowledge on the dust emission in the diffuse sky from far-IR to the mm wavelength. The current understanding is based mainly on the analysis of the COBE data combined with several templates of gas…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 G. Lagache

It was proposed that the two phenomena, WMAP-Planck haze and Fermi bubbles, may have a common origin. In the present paper we analyze the spatial structure of the haze using the Planck 2018 data release. It is found that the spatial…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-12-14 G. Rubtsov , Y. Zhezher

One important prediction of acceleration of particles in the supernova caused shock in the magnetic wind of exploding Wolf Rayet and Red Super Giant stars is the production of an energetic particle component with an E^-2 spectrum, at a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-14 Peter L. Biermann , Julia K. Becker , Gabriel Caceres , Athina Meli , Eun-Suk Seo , Todor Stanev

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

We present a new study of the high latitude galactic contributions to the millimeter sky, based on an analysis of the WMAP data combined with several templates of dust emission (DIRBE/COBE and FIRAS/COBE) and gas tracers (HI and Halpha). To…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 G. Lagache

Spatial associations have been found between interstellar neutral hydrogen (HI) emission morphology and small-scale structure observed by the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) in an area bounded by l = 60 & 180 deg, b = 30 & 70…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Gerrit L. Verschuur

Recently, an analysis of data from the Fermi Gamma Ray Space Telescope has revealed a flux of gamma rays concentrated around the inner ~0.5 degrees of the Milky Way, with a spectrum that is sharply peaked at 2-4 GeV. If interpreted as the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-05-05 Dan Hooper , Tim Linden

We study the variation of the spectrum of the Fermi Bubbles with Galactic latitude. Far from the Galactic plane (|b| > 30 degrees), the observed gamma-ray emission is nearly invariant with latitude, and is consistent with arising from…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-02-28 Dan Hooper , Tracy R. Slatyer

Galactic neutral hydrogen (HI) within a few hundred parsecs of the Sun contains structure with an angular distribution that is similar to small-scale structure observed by the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP). A total of 108…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Gerrit L. Verschuur

The Wisconsin H-Alpha Mapper (WHAM) is a new facility dedicated to the study of faint optical emission lines from diffuse interstellar gas. During its first 18 months of operation, WHAM carried out a survey of the interstellar H-alpha…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 R. J. Reynolds , L. M. Haffner , S. L. Tufte

Anomalous Microwave Emission (AME) is a component of diffuse Galactic radiation observed at frequencies in the range $\approx 10$-60 GHz. AME was first detected in 1996 and recognised as an additional component of emission in 1997. Since…

[Abridged] We present updated estimates of Galactic foreground emission using seven years of WMAP data. Using the power spectrum of differences between multi-frequency template-cleaned maps, we find no evidence for foreground contamination…

Analyses of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation maps made by the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) have revealed anomalies not predicted by the standard inflationary cosmology. In particular, the power of the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 V. Dikarev , O. Preuss , S. Solanki , H. Krueger , A. Krivov

We present a full-sky model of polarized Galactic microwave emission based on three years of observations by the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) at frequencies from 23 to 94 GHz. The model compares maps of the Stokes Q and U…

The Fermi Bubbles, which comprise two large and homogeneous regions of spectrally hard gamma-ray emission extending up to $55^{o}$ above and below the Galactic Center, were first noticed in GeV gamma-ray data from the Fermi Telescope in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-13 H. A. Ayala Solares , C. M. Hui , P. Hüntemeyer