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Fermi has discovered two giant gamma-ray-emitting bubbles that extend nearly 10kpc in diameter north and south of the galactic center (GC). The existence of the bubbles was first evidenced in X-rays detected by ROSAT and later WMAP detected…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-27 K. S. Cheng , D. O. Chernyshov , V. A. Dogiel , 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

We analyse the origin of the gamma-ray flux from the Fermi Bubbles (FBs) in the framework of the hadronic model in which gamma-rays are produced by collisions of relativistic protons with the protons of background plasma in the Galactic…

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

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 origin of sub-TeV gamma rays detected by Fermi-LAT from the Fermi bubbles at the Galactic center is still unknown. In a hadronic model, acceleration of protons and/or nuclei and their subsequent interactions with gas in the bubble…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-04-11 Soebur Razzaque , Lili Yang

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

The existence and extent of non-thermal phenomena in galaxy clusters is now well established. A key question in our understanding of these phenomena is the origin of the relativistic electrons which may be constrained by the modelling of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Gianfranco Brunetti

The bipolar, nonthermal, high-latitude lobes known as the Fermi bubbles (FBs) are thought to originate from a massive energy release near the Galactic centre (GC). We constrain the FB engine and the circumgalactic medium (CGM) by…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-09-21 Santanu Mondal , Uri Keshet , Kartick C. Sarkar , Ilya Gurwich

Low frequency electromagnetic turbulence is generated in relativistically outflowing plasma that sweeps up particles from the surrounding environment. Electrons are energized by stochastic gyroresonant acceleration with the turbulence…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 R. Schlickeiser , C. D. Dermer

The Bubble regime of electron acceleration in ultra-relativistic laser plasma is considered. It has been shown that the bubble can produce ultra-short dense bunches of electrons with quasi-monoenergetic energy spectra. The first experiment…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. Pukhov , S. Gordienko , S. Kiselev , I. Kostyukov

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 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

Observational aspects of solar flares relevant to the acceleration process of electrons and protons are reviewed and it is shown that most of these observations can be explained by the interaction with flare plasma of a power law energy…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Vahe Petrosian

Stochastic acceleration of electrons and protons by waves propagating parallel to the large scale magnetic fields of magnetized plasmas is studied with emphasis on the feasibility of accelerating particles from a thermal background to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-16 Vahé Petrosian , Siming Liu

In this study, we treat the Fermi bubbles as a scaled-up version of supernova remnants (SNRs). The bubbles are created through activities of the super-massive black hole (SMBH) or starbursts at the Galactic center (GC). Cosmic-rays (CRs)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-17 Yutaka Fujita , Yutaka Ohira , Ryo Yamazaki

The non-thermal particle spectra responsible for the emission from many astrophysical systems are thought to originate from shocks via a first order Fermi process otherwise known as diffusive shock acceleration. The same mechanism is also…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-12 B. Reville , A. R. Bell , G. Gregori

We suggest a model of Fermi Bubbles (FBs) in the Galactic halo of the altitude about 7-8 kpc, which is seen in non-thermal microwave and gamma-ray ranges. It was assumed that this emission is generated by relativistic electrons of cosmic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-25 V. A. Dogiel , D. O. Chernyshov , T. S. Fatekhov , A. M. Kiselev , C. M. Ko

The Fermi bubbles are gigantic gamma-ray structures in our Galaxy. The physical origin of the bubbles is still under debate. The leading scenarios can be divided into two categories. One is the nuclear star forming activity similar to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-17 Yoshiyuki Inoue , Shinya Nakashima , Masaya Tahara , Jun Kataoka , Tomonori Totani , Yutaka Fujita , Yoshiaki Sofue

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

We explore the impact of Fermi-like acceleration of Lyman-alpha (Ly{\alpha}) photons across shock fronts on the observed Ly{\alpha} spectral line shape. We first confirm the result of Neufeld & McKee (1988) that this mechanism gives rise to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-11-18 Andrew S. Chung , Mark Dijkstra , Benedetta Ciardi , Max Gronke