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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

Recently the Fermi-LAT data have revealed two gamma-ray emitting bubble-shaped structures at the Galactic center. If the observed gamma rays have hadronic origin (collisions of accelerated protons), the bubbles must emit high energy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-07-06 Cecilia Lunardini , Soebur Razzaque

Interactions of cosmic ray protons and nuclei in their sources and in the interstellar medium produce "hadronic" gamma-ray emission. Gamma-rays can also be of "leptonic" origin, i.e. originating from high-energy electrons accelerated…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-07-22 A. Neronov , D. Semikoz , D. Savchenko

In this study, we treat the Fermi bubbles as a scaled-up version of supernova remnants (SNRs). The bubbles are created through activities of the super-massive black hole (SMBH) or starbursts at the Galactic center (GC). Cosmic-rays (CRs)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-17 Yutaka Fujita , Yutaka Ohira , Ryo Yamazaki

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

In the Milky Way, cosmic rays (CRs) are dynamically important in the interstellar medium, contribute to hydrostatic balance, and may help regulate star formation. However, we know far less about the importance of CRs in galaxies whose gas…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-01-27 Roland M. Crocker , Mark R. Krumholz , Todd A. Thompson

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 identification of Cosmic Ray (CR) sources represents one of the biggest and long-standing questions in astrophysics. Direct measurements of cosmic rays cannot provide directional information due to their deflection in (extra)galactic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-03-20 Julien Dörner , Leonel Morejon , Karl-Heinz Kampert , Jula Becker Tjus

The {\it Fermi} Large Area Telescope has recently discovered two giant gamma-ray bubbles which extend north and south of the Galactic center with diameters and heights of the order of $H\sim 10$ kpc. We suggest that the periodic star…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-03 K. S. Cheng , D. O. Chernyshov , V. A. Dogiel , C. M. Ko , W. H. Ip , Y. Wang

The Milky Way's galactic center is a highly dynamical, crowded environment. Gamma ray observations of this region, such as the excess of GeV scale gamma rays observed by Fermi LAT, have been of tremendous interest to both the high energy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-24 Isabel S. Sands , Philip F. Hopkins , Sam B. Ponnada , Dusan Keres , Lina Necib , Yen-Hsing Julius Lin

Spiral galaxies M31 and M33 are Fermi/LAT-detected gamma-ray sources. We model the broadband non-thermal (NT) emission of the central region of M31 (R < 5.5 kpc) and of the disk of M33 (R ~ 9 kpc). For either galaxy, we self-consistently…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-05-16 Massimo Persic , Yoel Rephaeli , Riccardo Rando

The high rate of star formation and supernova explosions of starburst galaxies make them interesting sources of high energy radiation. Depending upon the level of turbulence present in their interstellar medium, the bulk of cosmic rays…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-05-08 Enrico Peretti , Pasquale Blasi , Felix Aharonian , Giovanni Morlino

Cosmic rays travel throughout the Galaxy, leaving traces from radio to ultra-high-energy gamma rays due to interactions with the interstellar gas, radiation field and magnetic field. Therefore, it is necessary to utilize multi-wavelength…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-03-15 Xin-Yu He , Pei-Pei Zhang , Qiang Yuan , Yi-Qing Guo

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

High-energy gamma rays of interstellar origin are produced by the interaction of cosmic-ray (CR) particles with the diffuse gas and radiation fields in the Galaxy. The main features of this emission are well understood and are reproduced by…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-09-06 Troy A. Porter , Gudlaugur Johannesson , Igor V. Moskalenko

Star-forming and starburst galaxies (SFGs and SBGs) are powerful emitters of non-thermal $\gamma$-rays and neutrinos, due to their intense phases of star-formation activity, which should confine high-energy Cosmic-Rays (CRs) inside their…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-08-30 Antonio Ambrosone , Marco Chianese , Antonio Marinelli

The nature of the $\gamma$-ray emission from the \emph{Fermi} bubbles is unknown. Both hadronic and leptonic models have been formulated to explain the peculiar $\gamma$-ray signal observed by the Fermi-LAT between 0.1-500~GeV. If this…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-12-20 Ke Fang , Meng Su , Tim Linden , Kohta Murase

It has been long debated whether the high-energy gamma-ray radiation from the Crab nebula stems from leptonic or hadronic processes. In this work, we investigate the multi-band non-thermal radiation from the Crab pulsar wind nebula with the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-01-21 Lin Nie , Yang Liu , Zejun Jiang , Xiongfei Geng

We propose a novel interpretation that gamma-rays from nearby radio galaxies are hadronic emission from magnetically arrested disks (MADs) around central black holes (BHs). The magnetic energy in MADs is higher than the thermal energy of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-01-07 Shigeo S. Kimura , Kenji Toma

Based on the ``cannonball model'' for gamma-ray bursts of Dar and De Rujula it is proposed that masses of baryonic plasma (``cannonballs''), ejected in bipolar supernova explosions in our Galaxy are the sources of hadronic Galactic cosmic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-13 R. Plaga