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The Fermi bubbles, two giant structures above and below the Galactic center (GC), are among the most important discoveries of the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. Studying their physical origin has been providing valuable insights into…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-03-02 H. -Y. K. Yang , M. Ruszkowski , E. G. Zweibel

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

We study the possibility that the gamma ray emission in the Fermi bubbles observed is produced by cosmic ray electrons with a spectrum similar to Galactic cosmic rays. We argue that the cosmic ray electrons steepen near 1 TeV from $E^{-3}$…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-09-16 Nayantara Gupta , Biman B. Nath , Peter L. Biermann , Eun -Suk Seo , Todor Stanev , Julia Becker Tjus

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 Gamma-ray Space Telescope reveals two large bubbles in the Galaxy, which extend nearly symmetrically ~50 degrees above and below the Galactic center (GC). Using three-dimensional (3D) magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations that…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-05 H. -Y. K. Yang , M. Ruszkowski , P. M. Ricker , E. Zweibel , D. Lee

We analyse processes of electron acceleration in the Fermi Bubbles in order to define parameters and restrictions of the models, which are suggested for the origin of these giant radio and gamma-ray structures. In the case of leptonic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-19 K. S. Cheng , D. O. Chernyshov , V. A. Dogiel , C. M. Ko

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

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

Gamma-ray data from Fermi-LAT show a bi-lobular structure extending up to 50 degrees above and below the Galactic centre, coincident with a possibly related structure in the ROSAT X-ray map which presumably originated in some energy release…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-08-04 Philipp Mertsch , Subir Sarkar

The Fermi bubbles, two giant gamma-ray bubbles above and below the Galactic center (GC), are among the most important findings of the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. Because of the proximity, spatially resolved, multi-wavelength…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-12-01 H. -Y. K. Yang , M. Ruszkowski

The Fermi bubbles are part of a complex region of the Milky Way. This region presents broadband extended non-thermal radiation, apparently coming from a physical structure rooted in the Galactic Centre and with a partly-ordered magnetic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-18 Maxim V. Barkov , Valenti Bosch-Ramon

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

Two enigmatic gamma-ray features in the Galactic central region, known as Fermi Bubbles (FBs), were found from Fermi-LAT data. An energy release (e.g., by tidal disruption events in the Galactic center, GC), generates a cavity with a shock…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-11-25 Vladimir A. Dogiel , Chung-Ming Ko

Two giant plasma lobes, known as the Fermi Bubbles, extend 10 kpc above and below the Galactic Center. Since their discovery in X-rays in 2003 (and in gamma-rays in 2010), the Bubbles have been recognized as a new morphological feature of…

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

The Fermi bubbles were possibly created by large injections of energy into the Galactic Center (GC), either by an active galactic nucleus (AGN) or by nuclear starburst more than ~10 Myr ago. However, the origin of the diffuse gamma-ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-03-12 Jun Kataoka , Yoshiaki Sofue , Yoshiyuki Inoue , Masahiro Akita , Shinya Nakashima , Tomonori Totani

Analysis of the Fermi-LAT data has revealed two extended structures above and below the Galactic Centre emitting gamma rays with a hard spectrum, the so-called Fermi bubbles. Hadronic models attempting to explain the origin of the Fermi…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-10-19 ANTARES Collaboration , S. Adrián-Martínez , A. Albert , I. Al Samarai , M. André , G. Anton , S. Anvar , M. Ardid , T. Astraatmadja , J-J. Aubert , B. Baret , J. Barrios-Martí , S. Basa , V. Bertin , S. Biagi , C. Bigongiari , C. Bogazzi , B. Bouhou , M. C. Bouwhuis , J. Brunner , J. Busto , A. Capone , L. Caramete , C. Cârloganu , J. Carr , S. Cecchini , Z. Charif , Ph. Charvis , T. Chiarusi , M. Circella , F. Classen , R. Coniglione , L. Core , H. Costantini , P. Coyle , A. Creusot , C. Curtil , G. De Bonis , I. Dekeyser , A. Deschamps , C. Donzaud , D. Dornic , Q. Dorosti , D. Drouhin , A. Dumas , T. Eberl , U. Emanuele , A. Enzenhöfer , J-P. Ernenwein , S. Escoffier , K. Fehn , P. Fermani , V. Flaminio , F. Folger , U. Fritsch , L. A. Fusco , S. Galatà , P. Gay , S. Geißelsöder , K. Geyer , G. Giacomelli , V. Giordano , A. Gleixner , J. P. Gómez-González , K. Graf , G. Guillard , H. van Haren , A. J. Heijboer , Y. Hello , J. J. Hernández-Rey , B. Herold , J. Hößl , C. Hugon , C. W. James , M. de Jong , M. Kadler , O. Kalekin , A. Kappes , U. Katz , P. Kooijman , A. Kouchner , I. Kreykenbohm , V. Kulikovskiy , R. Lahmann , E. Lambard , G. Lambard , G. Larosa , D. Lattuada , D. Lefèvre , E. Leonora , D. Lo Presti , H. Loehner , S. Loucatos , F. Louis , S. Mangano , M. Marcelin , A. Margiotta , J. A. Martínez-Mora , S. Martini , T. Michael , T. Montaruli , M. Morganti , C. Müller , M. Neff , E. Nezri , D. Palioselitis , G. E. Păvălaş , C. Perrina , V. Popa , T. Pradier , C. Racca , G. Riccobene , R. Richter , C. Rivière , A. Robert , K. Roensch , A. Rostovtsev , D. F. E. Samtleben , M. Sanguineti , P. Sapienza , J. Schmid , J. Schnabel , S. Schulte , F. Schüssler , T. Seitz , R. Shanidze , C. Sieger , F. Simeone , A. Spies , M. Spurio , J. J. M. Steijger , Th. Stolarczyk , A. Sánchez-Losa , M. Taiuti , C. Tamburini , Y. Tayalati , A. Trovato , B. Vallage , C. Vallée , V. Van Elewyck , M. Vecchi , P. Vernin , E. Visser , S. Wagner , J. Wilms , E. de Wolf , K. Yatkin , H. Yepes , J. D. Zornoza , J. Zúñiga

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

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

We study a scenario in which the Fermi bubbles are formed through a Galactocentric outflow of gas and pre-accelerated cosmic-rays (CR). We take into account CR energy losses due to proton-proton interactions with the gas present in the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-10-29 Gwenael Giacinti , Andrew M. Taylor