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The Fermi bubbles are structures observed in gamma rays at GeV energies, emanating from the central region of our galaxy and extending up to 8.5 kpc above and below the galactic plane. While initial studies showed a flat brightness across…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-08-02 Pooja Surajbali

The newly launched X-ray satellite, eRosita, has recently revealed two gigantic bubbles extending to ~80 degrees above and below the Galactic center. The morphology of these "eRosita bubbles" bears a remarkable resemblance to the Fermi…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-03-08 H. -Y. Karen Yang , M. Ruszkowski , E. Zweibel

The Magellanic Clouds, two dwarf galaxy companions to the Milky Way, are among the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) brightest gamma-ray sources. Aiming at a comprehensive modeling of the non-thermal electromagnetic and neutrino emission in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-03-15 Massimo Persic , Yoel Rephaeli

The Galactic center region near l$\approx0.2^0$ hosts a mixture of nonthermal linear filaments and thermal radio continuum features associated with the radio Arc. Chandra observations of this region reveal an X-ray filament and diffuse…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 F. Yusef-Zadeh , C. Law , M. Wardle

One of the most prominent features of the $\gamma$-ray sky is the emission from our own Galaxy. The Galactic plane has been observed by Fermi-LAT in GeV and H.E.S.S. in TeV light. Fermi has modeled the Galactic emission as the sum of a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-09 Ellis Owen , Christoph Deil , Axel Donath , Régis Terrier

The Galactic plane is a strong hard x-ray emitter and the emission forms a narrow continuous ridge. The currently known hard x-ray sources are far too few to explain the ridge x-ray emission, and the fundamental question as to whether the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Ken Ebisawa , Yoshitomo Maeda , Hidehiro Kaneda , Shigeo Yamauchi

We study the spatial correlation of astrophysical neutrinos detected by IceCube with the geometry of the two large globular structures located in the center of our Galaxy, known as Fermi Bubbles (FB). Using the Fermi-LAT data collected…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-16 Paola Alvarez-Hurtado , Nissim Fraija , Antonio Galvan , Antonio Marinelli

One of the leading explanations for the origin of Fermi Bubbles is a past jet activity in the Galactic center supermassive black hole Sgr A$^*$. The claimed jets are often assumed to be perpendicular to the Galactic plane. Motivated by the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-07-12 Kartick C. Sarkar , Santanu Mondal , Prateek Sharma , Tsvi Piran

Recent IceCube results suggest that the first detection of very high energy astrophysical neutrinos have been accomplished. We consider these results at face value in a Galactic origin context. Emission scenarios from both the Fermi bubble…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-19 Andrew M. Taylor , Stefano Gabici , Felix Aharonian

Recent observations of gamma-rays with the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) in the direction of the inner Galaxy revealed a mysterious GeV excess. Its intensity is significantly above predictions of the standard model of cosmic rays (CRs)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-08-10 Dmitry O. Chernyshov , Andrei E. Egorov , Vladimir A. Dogiel , Alexei V. Ivlev

The origin of the high-energy gamma-ray emission from the Milky Way center is still unclear and debated because of the impact of systematics afflicting the measurements from current experiments. Several theories and phenomenological models…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-07-30 Sofia Ventura

Since the discovery of cosmic rays (CRs) over a century ago, their origin has remained a mystery and a key research question. Recently, the LHAASO experiment identified the first CR super-acceleration source, the Cygnus bubble, which can…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-08-06 Lin Nie , Xiang-Li Qian , Yi-Qing Guo , Si-Ming Liu

More than 90% of the Galactic gas-related gamma-ray emissivity above 1 GeV is attributed to the decay of neutral pions formed in collisions between cosmic rays and interstellar matter, with lepton-induced processes becoming increasingly…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-13 C. D. Dermer , A. W. Strong , E. Orlando , L. Tibaldo

The Fermi Large Area Telescope data appear to have an excess of gamma rays from the inner 150 pc of the Galactic Center (GC). The main explanations proposed for this are: an unresolved population of millisecond pulsars (MSPs), dark matter…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-10-30 Chris Gordon , Oscar Macias

The high energy activity in the inner few degrees of the Galactic center is traced by diffuse radio, X-ray and gamma-ray emission. The physical relationship between different components of diffuse gas emitting at multiple wavelengths is a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-05 F. Yusef-Zadeh , J. W. Hewitt , M. Wardle , V. Tatischeff , D. Roberts , W. Cotton , H. Uchiyama , M. Nobukawa , T. G. Tsuru , C. Heinke , M. Royster

We consider the synchrotron emission from electrons out in the Galactic halo bubble region where the Fermi bubble structures reside. Utilising a simple analytical expression for the non-thermal electron distribution and a toy magnetic field…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-10-04 Vasundhara Shaw , Arjen van Vliet , Andrew M. Taylor

The aim of this work is to improve models for the gamma-ray discrete or small-scale structure related to H2 interstellar gas. Reliably identifying this contribution is important to disentangle gamma-ray point sources from interstellar gas,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-07-12 Christopher M. Karwin , Alex Broughton , Simona Murgia , Alexander Shmakov , Mohammadamin Tavakoli , Pierre Baldi

Using new ultraviolet (UV) spectra of five background quasars from the Cosmic Origins Spectrograph on the Hubble Space Telescope, we analyze the low-latitude (|b|=20-30 degree) regions of the Fermi Bubbles, the giant gamma-ray emitting…

Observations indicate two nested pairs of extended bipolar bubbles emanating from the Milky-Way center - the $|b|\sim80^\circ$ latitude eROSITA bubbles (RBs), encompassing the smaller, $|b|\sim 50^{\circ}$ Fermi bubbles (FBs) - and classify…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-21 Arka Ghosh , Uri Keshet , Santanu Mondal

We analyse the model of stochastic re-acceleration of electrons, which are emitted by supernova remnants (SNRs) in the Galactic Disk and propagate then into the Galactic halo, in order to explain the origin on nonthermal (radio and…

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