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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

The extended hot X-ray emitting gaseous halo of the Milky Way has an optical depth $\sim1$ for the dominant emission lines of \ion{O}{7} and \ion{O}{8}, which are used to infer the halo properties. To improve on halo gas properties, we…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-11-15 Yunyang Li , Joel Bregman

We present a comprehensive study of the chemical properties of the stellar haloes of Milky-Way mass galaxies, analysing the transition between the inner to the outer haloes. We find the transition radius between the relative dominance of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-03-05 P. Tissera , T. Beers , D. Carollo , C. Scannapieco

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

Stellar and AGN-driven feedback processes affect the distribution of gas on a wide range of scales, from within galaxies well into the intergalactic medium. Yet, it remains unclear how feedback, through its connection to key galaxy…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-12-15 Daniele Sorini , Sownak Bose , Mathilda Denison , Romeel Davé

Hydrodynamical simulations indicate that substantial fraction of baryons in the Universe remains in a diffuse component - Warm-Hot Intergalactic Medium (WHIM). To determine physical properties (spatial distribution, temperature and density)…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Andrzej M. Soltan

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

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

In an effort to understand the presence of super-virial gas detected in the Milky Way, we present our findings from isolated galaxy simulations of Milky Way-like systems using GIZMO with the FIRE-2 (Feedback In Realistic Environments)…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-07-02 Manami Roy , Kung-Yi Su , Smita Mathur , Jonathan Stern

We have modelled the high-energy astrophysics of the inner 200 pc of the Galaxy with a view to explaining the diffuse, broad-band (radio continuum to TeV gamma-ray), non-thermal signal detected from this region. Our modelling pins down the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-03-29 Roland M. Crocker

Gas morphology and kinematics in the Milky Way contain key information for understanding the formation and evolution of our Galaxy. We present a high resolution hydrodynamical simulation based on a realistic barred Milky Way potential…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-02-02 Zhi Li , Juntai Shen , Ortwin Gerhard , Jonathan P. Clarke

Galaxy formation models predict that local galaxies are surrounded by hot X-ray-emitting halos, which are technically difficult to detect due to their extended and low surface brightness nature. Previous X-ray studies have mostly focused on…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-03-14 Lin He , Zhiyuan Li , Meicun Hou , Min Du , Taotao Fang , Wei Cui

We use a suite of hydrodynamical cosmological simulations from the Evolution and Assembly of GaLaxies and their Environments (EAGLE) project to investigate the formation of hot hydrostatic haloes and their dependence on feedback mechanisms.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-11-01 Camila A. Correa , Joop Schaye , J. Stuart B. Wyithe , Alan R. Duffy , Tom Theuns , Robert A. Crain , Richard Bower

The gamma-ray sky >100 MeV is dominated by the diffuse emissions from interactions of cosmic rays with the interstellar gas and radiation fields of the Milky Way. Observations of these diffuse emissions provide a tool to study cosmic-ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-04 LAT Collaboration

We use a sample of 83 high-resolution cosmological zoom-in simulations and a semi-analytic model (SAM) to study the stochasticity of galaxy formation in haloes ranging from dwarf to Milky Way masses. Our simulated galaxies reproduce the…

Quantitative modeling of the spectro-spatial distributions of energetic electrons and protons in galactic halos is needed in order to determine their interactions with the local plasma and radiation fields, and also to estimate their…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-04-17 Yoel Rephaeli , Sharon Sadeh

Using hydrodynamical simulations, we show for the first time that an episode of star formation in the center of the Milky Way, with a star-formation-rate (SFR) $\sim 0.5$ M$_\odot$ yr$^{-1}$ for $\sim 30$ Myr, can produce bubbles that…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-09-30 Kartick Chandra Sarkar , Biman B. Nath , Prateek Sharma

The Milky Way hosts a hot ($\approx 2 \times 10^6$ K), diffuse, gaseous halo based on detections of z = 0 OVII and OVIII absorption lines in quasar spectra and emission lines in blank-sky spectra. Here we improve constraints on the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-23 Matthew J. Miller , Joel N. Bregman

The circumgalactic medium (CGM) is the diffuse gas surrounding a galaxy's halo, and it plays a vital role in the galactic baryon cycle. However, its mass distribution across the virial phase and the cooler, denser atomic phase, remains…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-11-04 Rajsekhar Mohapatra , Alankar Dutta , Prateek Sharma

N-body simulations and analytical calculations of the gravitational collapse in an expanding universe predict that halos should form with a diverging inner density profile, the cusp. There are some observational indications that the dark…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Amr El-Zant , Isaac Shlosman , Yehuda Hoffman