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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

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

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 diffuse gamma-ray sky revealed 'Bubbles' of emission above and below the Galactic Plane symmetric around the centre of the Milky Way with a height of 10 kpc in both directions. At present there is no convincing explanation for the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-22 Wim de Boer , Markus Weber

Fermi bubbles are giant gamma-ray structures extended north and south of the Galactic center with characteristic sizes of order of 10 kpc recently discovered by Fermi Large Area Telescope. Good correlation between radio and gamma-ray…

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

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 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

Galactic outflows are ubiquitous in galaxies containing active star formation or supermassive black hole activity. The presence of a large-scale outflow from the center of our own Galaxy was confirmed after the discovery of two large ($\sim…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-03-18 Kartick C. Sarkar

The Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope was launched more than 13 years ago and since then it has dramatically changed our knowledge of the gamma-ray sky. With more than three billions photons from the whole sky, collected in the energy range…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-09-09 Giacomo Principe

The origin of the Fermi bubbles and the microwave haze is yet to be determined. To disentangle different models requires detailed comparisons between theoretical predictions and multi-wavelength observations. Our previous simulations have…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2013-10-30 H. -Y. K. Yang , M. Ruszkowski , E. Zweibel

Recent Fermi results have focused attention on gamma-ray burst's (GRB) prompt emission phase, which is rich in phenomenology and poorly understood. The broad band spectra observed by Fermi does not fit into any of the frameworks of existing…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-11-16 Asaf Pe'er

Fermi LAT has discovered two extended gamma-ray bubbles above and below the galactic plane. We propose that their origin is due to the energy release in the Galactic center (GC) as a result of quasi-periodic star accretion onto the central…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2011-09-14 D. O. Chernyshov , K. -S. Cheng , V. A. Dogiel , C. M. Ko , W. -H. Ip , Y. Wang

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 gamma-ray survey of the sky by the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope offers both opportunities and challenges for multiwavelength and multi-messenger studies. Gamma-ray bursts, pulsars, binary sources, flaring Active Galactic Nuclei, and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-13 D. J. Thompson

The Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, as an all-sky survey and monitoring mission, is producing daily/weekly sampled gamma-ray light curves for dozens of blazars and other high-energy sources. Highlights on MeV-GeV gamma-ray variability…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-12-13 Stefano Ciprini

The discovery of the Fermi bubbles---a huge bilobular structure seen in GeV gamma-rays above and below the Galactic center---implies the presence of a large reservoir of high energy particles at $\sim 10 \, \text{kpc}$ from the disk. The…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-02-27 Philipp Mertsch , Vahé Petrosian

The enigma of cosmic ray origin and propagation stands as a key question in particle astrophysics. The precise spatial and spectral measurements of diffuse Galactic gamma-ray emission provide new avenues for unraveling this mystery. Based…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-01 Qi-Ling Chen , Qiang Yuan , Yi-Qing Guo , Ming-Ming Kang , Chao-Wen Yang

For more than one year the Fermi Large Area Telescope has been surveying the gamma-ray sky from 20 MeV to more than 300 GeV with unprecedented statistics and angular resolution. One of the key science targets of the Fermi mission is diffuse…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 Luigi Tibaldo

The LAT instrument on the Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope is performing an all-sky survey from 20 MeV to 300 GeV with unprecedented statistics and angular resolution. This is providing a wealth of new information on the non-thermal emission…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 A. W. Strong