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Cosmic rays fill up the entire volume of galaxies, providing an important source of heating and ionisation of the interstellar medium, and may play a significant role in the regulation of star formation and galactic evolution. Diffuse…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-03 Troy A. Porter

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

The origin of the diffuse extragalactic gamma-ray background, which was measured with the large area telescope (LAT) aboard the Fermi satellite at energy below 820 GeV, and of the diffuse cosmic background of neutrinos, which was observed…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-21 Shlomo Dado , Arnon Dar

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

Using precise full-sky observations from Planck, and applying several methods of component separation, we identify and characterize the emission from the Galactic "haze" at microwave wavelengths. The haze is a distinct component of diffuse…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-11 Planck Collaboration , P. A. R. Ade , N. Aghanim , M. Arnaud , M. Ashdown , F. Atrio-Barandela , J. Aumont , C. Baccigalupi , A. Balbi , A. J. Banday , R. B. Barreiro , J. G. Bartlett , E. Battaner , K. Benabed , A. Benoît , J. -P. Bernard , M. Bersanelli , A. Bonaldi , J. R. Bond , J. Borrill , F. R. Bouchet , C. Burigana , P. Cabella , J. -F. Cardoso , A. Catalano , L. Cayón , R. -R. Chary , L. -Y Chiang , P. R. Christensen , D. L. Clements , L. P. L. Colombo , A. Coulais , B. P. Crill , F. Cuttaia , L. Danese , O. D'Arcangelo , R. J. Davis , P. de Bernardis , G. de Gasperis , A. de Rosa , G. de Zotti , J. Delabrouille , C. Dickinson , J. M. Diego , G. Dobler , H. Dole , S. Donzelli , O. Doré , U. Dörl , M. Douspis , X. Dupac , G. Efstathiou , T. A. Enßlin , H. K. Eriksen , F. Finelli , O. Forni , M. Frailis , E. Franceschi , S. Galeotta , K. Ganga , M. Giard , G. Giardino , J. González-Nuevo , K. M. Górski , S. Gratton , A. Gregorio , A. Gruppuso , F. K. Hansen , D. Harrison , G. Helou , S. Henrot-Versillé , C. Hernández-Monteagudo , S. R. Hildebrandt , E. Hivon , M. Hobson , W. A. Holmes , A. Hornstrup , W. Hovest , K. M. Huffenberger , T. R. Jaffe , T. Jagemann , W. C. Jones , M. Juvela , E. Keihänen , J. Knoche , L. Knox , M. Kunz , H. Kurki-Suonio , G. Lagache , A. Lähteenmäki , J. -M. Lamarre , A. Lasenby , C. R. Lawrence , S. Leach , R. Leonardi , P. B. Lilje , M. Linden-Vørnle , M. López-Caniego , P. M. Lubin , J. F. Macías-Pérez , B. Maffei , D. Maino , N. Mandolesi , M. Maris , P. G. Martin , E. Martínez-González , S. Masi , M. Massardi , S. Matarrese , F. Matthai , P. Mazzotta , P. R. Meinhold , A. Melchiorri , L. Mendes , A. Mennella , S. Mitra , M. -A. Miville-Deschênes , A. Moneti , L. Montier , G. Morgante , D. Munshi , J. A. Murphy , P. Naselsky , P. Natoli , H. U. Nørgaard-Nielsen , F. Noviello , S. Osborne , F. Pajot , R. Paladini , D. Paoletti , B. Partridge , T. J. Pearson , O. Perdereau , F. Perrotta , F. Piacentini , M. Piat , E. Pierpaoli , D. Pietrobon , S. Plaszczynski , E. Pointecouteau , G. Polenta , N. Ponthieu , L. Popa , T. Poutanen , G. W. Pratt , S. Prunet , J. -L. Puget , J. P. Rachen , R. Rebolo , M. Reinecke , C. Renault , S. Ricciardi , T. Riller , G. Rocha , C. Rosset , J. A. Rubiño-Martín , B. Rusholme , M. Sandri , G. Savini , B. M. Schaefer , D. Scott , G. F. Smoot , F. Stivoli , R. Sudiwala , A. -S. Suur-Uski , J. -F. Sygnet , J. A. Tauber , L. Terenzi , L. Toffolatti , M. Tomasi , M. Tristram , M. Türler , G. Umana , L. Valenziano , B. Van Tent , P. Vielva , F. Villa , N. Vittorio , L. A. Wade , B. D. Wandelt , M. White , D. Yvon , A. Zacchei , A. Zonca

The origin of the diffuse gamma-ray background (DGRB), the one that remains after subtracting all individual sources from observed gamma-ray sky, is unknown. The DGRB possibly encompasses contributions from different source populations such…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-05-02 Saqib Hussain , Rafael Alves Batista , Elisabete M. de Gouveia Dal Pino , Klaus Dolag

We present a new extended gamma ray excess detected with the Fermi Satellite Large Area Telescope toward the Galactic Center that traces the morphology of infrared starlight emission. Combined with its measured spectrum, this new extended…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-07-13 Kevork N. Abazajian , Nicolas Canac , Shunsaku Horiuchi , Manoj Kaplinghat , Anna Kwa

Future gamma-ray survey instruments, such as newASTROGAM and AMEGO-X, will significantly improve previous and current all-sky surveys at MeV energies. In this paper we discuss the continuum emission from the Milky Way, two prominent large…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-09 Markus Ackermann , Denys Malyshev , Dmitry V. Malyshev

Although accretion onto supermassive black holes in other galaxies is seen to produce powerful jets in X-ray and radio, no convincing detection has ever been made of a kpc-scale jet in the Milky Way. The recently discovered pair of 10 kpc…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-05 Meng Su , Douglas P. Finkbeiner

The gamma-ray emission in broad-line blazars is generally explained as inverse Compton (IC) radiation of relativistic electrons in the jet scattering optical-UV photons from the Broad Line Region (BLR), the so-called BLR External Compton…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-05-16 L. Costamante , S. Cutini , G. Tosti , E. Antolini , A. Tramacere

Reliable identification of the origin of the high-energy non-thermal emission from the Galactic Center (GC) is not achievable without adequate consideration of the ambient conditions such as the magnetic field configuration or gas…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-09-19 Mehmet Guenduez , Julia Becker Tjus , Katia Ferrière , Ralf-Jürgen Dettmar , Dominik J. Bomans

Recently, tentative evidence for an excess of gamma rays at energies around 130 GeV has been reported from analyses of data from the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT). The excess is potentially of great interest, as it could be associated…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-07-04 Stefano Profumo , Tim Linden

The origin of Galactic cosmic rays (with energies up to 10^15 eV) remains unclear, though it is widely believed that they originate in the shock waves of expanding supernova remnants. Currently the best way to investigate their acceleration…

Astrophysics · Physics 2012-08-27 The H. E. S. S. Collaboration , : , F. A. Aharonian

In 2010, the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope observed two gamma-ray emitting structures, the Fermi Bubbles (FBs), that extend up to 55{\deg} above and below the Galactic plane and that seem to emanate from the Galactic center region.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-18 Francesco Xotta , Nina Bavdaž , Christopher Eckner , Dmitry Malyshev , Judit Pérez-Romero , Gabrijela Zaharijas

The majority of galactic gamma rays are produced by interaction of cosmic rays with matter or radiation fields. This results in a diffuse radiation concentrated in the galactic plane where the flux of cosmic rays and the density of material…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-29 R. Fleysher

The Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope discovered two \gamma-ray emitting bubble-shaped structures that extend nearly symmetrically on either side of our Galaxy and appear morphologically connected to the Galactic center. The origin of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-08-28 Luis Alfredo Anchordoqui , Brian James Vlcek

The Milky Way's galactic center is a highly dynamical, crowded environment. Gamma ray observations of this region, such as the excess of GeV scale gamma rays observed by Fermi LAT, have been of tremendous interest to both the high energy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-24 Isabel S. Sands , Philip F. Hopkins , Sam B. Ponnada , Dusan Keres , Lina Necib , Yen-Hsing Julius Lin

The three major large-scale, diffuse $\gamma$-ray structures of the Milky Way are the Galactic disk, a bulge-like GeV excess towards the Galactic center, and the Fermi bubble. Whether such structures can also be present in other normal…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-04-03 Li Feng , Zhiyuan Li , Meng Su , Pak-Hin T. Tam , Yang Chen

Outflows and feedback are key ingredients of galaxy evolution. Evidence for an outflow arising from the Galactic center (GC) has recently been discovered at different wavelength. We show that the X-ray, radio, and infrared emissions are…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-02-10 G. Ponti , M. R. Morris , E. Churazov , I. Heywood , R. P. Fender

Observations of the Galactic Center (GC) region in very-high-energy (VHE, >100 GeV) gamma rays, conducted with the High Energy Stereoscopic System (H.E.S.S.), led to the detection of an extended region of diffuse gamma-ray emission in 2006.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-07-15 Alexander Ziegler , Christopher van Eldik