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Gamma-ray bursts are the most luminous explosions in the Universe, and their origin as well as mechanism are the focus of intense research and debate. More than three decades since their serendipitous discovery, followed by several…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-12-06 P. N. Bhat , S. Guiriec

Gamma-ray emission from large structures is useful for tracing the propagation and distribution of cosmic rays throughout our Galaxy. For example, the search for gamma-ray emission from Giant Molecular Clouds may allow us to probe the flux…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-13 Henrike Fleischhack , Hugo Alberto Ayala Solares , Petra Huentemeyer , Matthew Coel

The Fermi bubbles are two giant bubbles in gamma rays lying above and below the Galactic center (GC). Despite numerous studies on the bubbles, their origin and emission mechanism remain elusive. Here we use a suite of hydrodynamic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-05-20 Ruiyu Zhang , Fulai Guo

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

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

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

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

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 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

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

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 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 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

Evidence has increasingly mounted in recent decades that outflows of matter and energy from the central parsecs of our Galaxy have shaped the observed structure of the Milky Way on a variety of larger scales. On scales of ~15 pc, the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-04-15 G. Ponti , F. Hofmann , E. Churazov , M. R. Morris , F. Haberl , K. Nandra , R. Terrier , M. Clavel , A. Goldwurm

The Fermi bubbles are large gamma-ray-emitting structures. They are symmetric about the Galactic Centre (GC), and their creation is therefore attributed to intensive energy injection at the GC. In this study, we focus on the non-equilibrium…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-12-16 Yutaka Fujita

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

The origin of the extragalactic gamma-ray background is a pressing cosmological mystery. The Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope has recently measured the intensity and spectrum of this background; both are substantially different from previous…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-16 Brian D. Fields , Vasiliki Pavlidou , Tijana Prodanovic

{\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 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 Fermi Bubbles were discovered about a decade ago in the {\it Fermi}-LAT data as a double-lobe structure extending up to 55 deg. in Galactic latitudes above and below the Galactic Center. At the moment their origin is still unknown. The…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-08-25 E. Moulin , A. Montanari , D. Malyshev , Dm. Malyshev