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Recently the Fermi-LAT data have revealed two gamma-ray emitting bubble-shaped structures at the Galactic center. If the observed gamma rays have hadronic origin (collisions of accelerated protons), the bubbles must emit high energy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-07-06 Cecilia Lunardini , Soebur Razzaque

We investigate non-thermal emission from the Fermi bubbles on a hadronic model. Cosmic-ray (CR) protons are accelerated at the forward shock of the bubbles. They interact with the background gas in the Galactic halo and create $\pi^0$-decay…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-19 Yutaka Fujita , Yutaka Ohira , Ryo Yamazaki

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

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 Fermi bubbles are two large structures in the gamma-ray sky extending to $55^\circ$ above and below the Galactic center. We analyze 50 months of Fermi Large Area Telescope data between 100 MeV and 500 GeV above $10^\circ$ in Galactic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-09-22 LAT Collaboration

The origin of the Fermi bubbles recently detected by the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope in the inner Galaxy is mysterious. In the companion paper Guo & Mathews (Paper I), we use hydrodynamic simulations to show that they could be produced…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-30 Fulai Guo , William G. Mathews , Gregory Dobler , S. Peng Oh

The Fermi bubbles (FBs) are large gamma-ray emitting lobes extending up to $55\deg$ in latitude above and below the Galactic center (GC). Although the FBs were discovered 8 years ago, their origin and the nature of the gamma-ray emission…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-12-02 Laura Herold , Dmitry Malyshev

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

{\it Fermi}-LAT has recently detected two gamma ray bubbles disposed symmetrically with respect to the Galactic plane. The bubbles have been suggested to be in a quasi-steady state, inflated by ongoing star formation over the age of the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-28 K. Zubovas , A. R. King , S. Nayakshin

The Fermi bubbles are one of the most remarkable features in the gamma-ray sky revealed by the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT). The nature of the gamma-ray emission and the origin of the bubbles are still open questions. In this note, we…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-04-11 Dmitry Malyshev

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

The Fermi Bubbles are enigmatic \gamma-ray features of the Galactic bulge. Both putative activity (within $\sim$ few $\times$ Myr) connected to the Galactic center super-massive black hole and, alternatively, nuclear star formation have…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-18 Roland M. Crocker , Geoffrey V. Bicknell , Ettore Carretti , Alex S. Hill , Ralph S. Sutherland

The Fermi Bubbles are giant Galactic structures observed in both gamma-rays and microwaves. Recent studies have found support for the hypothesis that the gamma-ray and microwave emission can both be understood as arising from a hard…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-05-03 Sruthi A. Narayanan , Tracy R. Slatyer

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

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

Galactic center (GC) is expected to be the brightest source of possible dark matter (DM) annihilation signal. Excess gamma-ray emission has been detected by several groups. Both DM and more conventional astrophysical explanations of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-02-12 Dmitry Malyshev

The Fermi Bubbles (FB) are a pair of large-scale ellipsoidal structures extending above and below the Galactic plane almost symmetrically aligned with the Galactic Center. After more than 10 years since their discovery, their nature and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-03-23 Michela Negro , Henrike Fleischhack , Andreas Zoglauer , Seth Digel , Marco Ajello

Despite their discovery fifteen years ago, the nature and origin of the Fermi bubbles remain unclear. We here investigate the effect a magnetic field can have on a subsonic breeze outflow emanating from the Galactic centre region. The…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-18 Olivier Tourmente , Donna Rodgers-Lee , Andrew M. Taylor

Various studies have implied the existence of a gaseous halo around the Galaxy extending out to 100 kpc. Galactic cosmic rays (CRs) that propagate to the halo, either by diffusion or by convection with the possibly existing large-scale…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-01-30 Ruo-Yu Liu , Huirong Yan , Xiang-Yu Wang , Shi Shao , Hui Li

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