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The Fermi bubbles, two giant structures above and below the Galactic center (GC), are among the most important discoveries of the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. Studying their physical origin has been providing valuable insights into…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-03-02 H. -Y. K. Yang , M. Ruszkowski , E. G. Zweibel

The Fermi bubbles (FBs) are large gamma-ray emitting lobes extending up to $55\deg$ in latitude above and below the Galactic center (GC). Although the FBs were discovered 8 years ago, their origin and the nature of the gamma-ray emission…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-12-02 Laura Herold , Dmitry Malyshev

The Fermi bubbles are one of the most remarkable features in the gamma-ray sky revealed by the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT). The nature of the gamma-ray emission and the origin of the bubbles are still open questions. In this note, we…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-04-11 Dmitry Malyshev

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

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

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

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

In 2010, the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope observed two gamma-ray emitting structures, the Fermi Bubbles (FBs), that extend up to 55{\deg} above and below the Galactic plane and that seem to emanate from the Galactic center region.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-18 Francesco Xotta , Nina Bavdaž , Christopher Eckner , Dmitry Malyshev , Judit Pérez-Romero , Gabrijela Zaharijas

The Fermi Bubbles are giant Galactic structures observed in both gamma-rays and microwaves. Recent studies have found support for the hypothesis that the gamma-ray and microwave emission can both be understood as arising from a hard…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-05-03 Sruthi A. Narayanan , Tracy R. Slatyer

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

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

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

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

Analysis of the Fermi-LAT data has revealed two extended structures above and below the Galactic Centre emitting gamma rays with a hard spectrum, the so-called Fermi bubbles. Hadronic models attempting to explain the origin of the Fermi…

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The Fermi bubbles are two large structures in the gamma-ray sky extending to $55^\circ$ above and below the Galactic center. We analyze 50 months of Fermi Large Area Telescope data between 100 MeV and 500 GeV above $10^\circ$ in Galactic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-09-22 LAT Collaboration

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 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 $Fermi$ 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 bipolar, nonthermal, high-latitude lobes known as the Fermi bubbles (FBs) are thought to originate from a massive energy release near the Galactic centre (GC). We constrain the FB engine and the circumgalactic medium (CGM) by…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-09-21 Santanu Mondal , Uri Keshet , Kartick C. Sarkar , Ilya Gurwich

The origin of sub-TeV gamma rays detected by Fermi-LAT from the Fermi bubbles at the Galactic center is still unknown. In a hadronic model, acceleration of protons and/or nuclei and their subsequent interactions with gas in the bubble…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-04-11 Soebur Razzaque , Lili Yang
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