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The Galactic center (GC) provides a unique laboratory for a detailed examination of the interplay between massive star formation and the nuclear environment of our Galaxy. Here, we present an 100 ks Chandra ACIS observation of the Arches…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Q. Daniel Wang , Hui Dong , Cornelia Lang

We report a correspondence between giant, polarized microwave structures emerging north from the Galactic plane near the Galactic center and a number of GeV gamma-ray features, including the eastern edge of the recently-discovered northern…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-02-17 David I. Jones , Roland M. Crocker , Wolfgang Reich , Jürgen Ott , Felix A. Aharonian

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

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

We report the discovery of eleven high-velocity HI clouds at Galactic latitudes of 25-30 degrees, likely embedded in the Milky Way's nuclear wind. The clouds are detected with deep Green Bank Telescope 21 cm observations of a $3.2^\circ…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-07-08 Rongmon Bordoloi , Andrew J. Fox , Felix J. Lockman

The Milky Way centre exhibits an intense flux in the gamma and X-ray bands, whose origin is partly ascribed to the possible presence of a large population of millisecond pulsars (MSPs) and cataclysmic variables (CVs), respectively. However,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-06-13 Manuel Arca-Sedda , Bence Kocsis , Timothy Brandt

A recent article "An X-ray chimney extending hundreds of parsecs above and below the Galactic Centre" (2019, Nature, 567, 34) reported the detection of chimney-like X-ray-emitting features above and below the Galactic Center from XMM-Newton…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-03-29 Shinya Nakashima , Katsuji Koyama , Q. Daniel Wang

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 and eROSITA bubbles, large diffuse structures in our Galaxy, can be the by-products of the steady star formation activity. To simultaneously explain the star formation history of the Milky Way and the metallicity of $\sim$…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-08-26 Jiro Shimoda , Katsuaki Asano

The Fermi Bubbles, which comprise two large and homogeneous regions of spectrally hard gamma-ray emission extending up to $55^{o}$ above and below the Galactic Center, were first noticed in GeV gamma-ray data from the Fermi Telescope in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-13 H. A. Ayala Solares , C. M. Hui , P. Hüntemeyer

The center of the Milky Way is offering one of the most striking mystery in Astroparticle Physics. An excess of gamma rays (GCE) has been measured by several groups in the data collected by the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) towards the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-11-18 Mattia Di Mauro

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 origin of the X-ray emission from the central region of the Galaxy has remained a mystery, despite extensive study over the past two decades. A fundamental question is the relative contribution of the point-source and diffuse components…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Q. D. Wang , E. V. Gotthelf , C. C. Lang

After the discovery of Fermi Bubbles and the excess of gamma-ray emission, the Galactic Centre has received increasing attention with the aim to understand its role in the origin and acceleration of primary cosmic rays (CRs). Based on a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-06-15 Rita C. Anjos , Fernando Catalani

We study the spatial correlation of astrophysical neutrinos detected by IceCube with the geometry of the two large globular structures located in the center of our Galaxy, known as Fermi Bubbles (FB). Using the Fermi-LAT data collected…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-16 Paola Alvarez-Hurtado , Nissim Fraija , Antonio Galvan , Antonio Marinelli

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

Understanding our Galactic Center is easier with insights from nearby galactic nuclei. Both the star formation activity in nuclear gas disks, driven by bars and nuclear bars, and the fueling of low-luminosity AGN, followed by feedback of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-02-22 F. Combes

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

Fermi-LAT reveals two huge gamma-ray bubbles existing in the Galactic Center, called 'Fermi Bubbles'. The existence of two microwave bubbles at the same region are also reported by the observation by WMAP, dubbed 'WMAP haze'. In order to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-02-11 K. Sasaki , K. Asano , T. Terasawa

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