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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

The nucleus of the Milky Way is known to harbour regions of intense star formation activity as well as a super-massive black hole. Recent Fermi space telescope observations have revealed regions of \gamma-ray emission reaching far above and…

Recently evidence has emerged for enormous features in the gamma-ray sky observed by the Fermi-LAT instrument: bilateral `bubbles' of emission centered on the core of the Galaxy and extending to around 10 kpc above and below the Galactic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2011-03-24 Roland M. Crocker , Felix Aharonian

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

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

{\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

Using deep archival observations from the Chandra X-ray Observatory, we present an analysis of linear X-ray-emitting features located within the southern portion of the Galactic center chimney, and oriented orthogonal to the Galactic plane,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-05-14 Scott C. Mackey , Mark R. Morris , Gabriele Ponti , Konstantina Anastasopoulou , Samaresh Mondal

Fermi bubbles, the recently observed giant (~10 kpc high) gamma-ray emitting lobes on either side of our Galaxy (Su et al. 2010), appear morphologically connected to the Galactic center, and thus offer a chance to test several models of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2012-01-18 Kastytis Zubovas , Sergei Nayakshin , Andrew King

Recently, the {\it{Fermi}} space telescope has discovered two large $\gamma$-ray emission regions, the so-called "Fermi bubbles", that extend up to $\sim 50^\circ$ above and below the Galactic center. The $\gamma$-ray emission from the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-15 Satyendra Thoudam

The Galactic Center's giant outflows are manifest in three different, non-thermal phenomena: i) the hard-spectrum, \gamma-ray `Fermi Bubbles' emanating from the nucleus and extending to |b| ~ 50 degrees; ii) the hard-spectrum,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-07-30 Roland M. Crocker , Geoffrey V. Bicknell , Andrew M. Taylor , Ettore Carretti

A pair of non-thermal radio bubbles recently discovered in the inner few hundred parsecs of the Galactic center bears a close spatial association with elongated, thermal X-ray features called the X-ray chimneys. While their morphology,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-06-02 Mengfei Zhang , Zhiyuan Li , Mark R. Morris

In response to the comment posted by Nakashima et al. (arXiv:1903.1176), regarding prior claims for the features that we referred to as the Galactic Center Chimneys (2019, Nature, 567, 347), we point out the following: 1) The Nakashima et…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-04-16 G. Ponti , F. Hofmann , E. Churazov , M. R. Morris , F. Haberl , K. Nandra R. Terrier , M. Clavel , A. Goldwurm

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…

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

One of the most exciting discoveries of recent years is a pair of gigantic gamma-ray emission regions, the so-called Fermi bubbles, above and below the Galactic center. The bubbles, discovered by the Fermi space telescope, extend up to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-23 Satyendra Thoudam

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

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 Bubbles are gamma-ray structures extending from the center of the Milky Way to +/-50 degree Galactic latitude that were discovered in data obtained by the Fermi/LAT instrument. Their origin and power source remain uncertain. To…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-11-11 Ami Tank , Roland Crocker , Mark R. Krumholz

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

We analyze the gamma-ray sky at energies of 0.5 to 50 GeV using the undecimated wavelet transform on the sphere. Focusing on the inner $60^{\circ} \times 60^{\circ}$ of the sky, we identify and characterize four separate residuals beyond…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-08-15 Bhaskaran Balaji , Ilias Cholis , Patrick J. Fox , Samuel D. McDermott
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