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Unlike the complicated X-ray and radio structure observed in the North Polar Spur area, the South-Eastern part of the eROSITA bubbles can be reasonably well described as a propagating forward shock, plausibly created by the transient energy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-24 E. Churazov , I. I. Khabibullin , A. M. Bykov , N. N. Chugai , R. A. Sunyaev , V. P. Utrobin , I. I. Zinchenko

The eROSITA bubbles (eRObub) were discovered in 2020 in the first SRG/eROSITA All-Sky Survey, and are among the most extended structures in the X-ray sky. Using eROSITA all-sky maps and spatially resolved spectra, we aim to infer the…

Observations indicate two nested pairs of extended bipolar bubbles emanating from the Milky-Way center - the $|b|\sim80^\circ$ latitude eROSITA bubbles (RBs), encompassing the smaller, $|b|\sim 50^{\circ}$ Fermi bubbles (FBs) - and classify…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-21 Arka Ghosh , Uri Keshet , Santanu Mondal

The nature of the bipolar, $\gamma$-ray Fermi bubbles (FB) is still unclear, in part because their faint, high-latitude X-ray counterpart has until now eluded a clear detection. We stack ROSAT data at varying distances from the FB edges,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-01-24 Uri Keshet , Ilya Gurwich

The eROSITA bubbles are detected via the instrument with the same name. The northern bubble shows noticeable asymmetric features, including distortion to the west and enhancement in the eastern edge, while the southern counterpart is…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-02-14 Guobin Mou , Dongze Sun , Taotao Fang , Wei Wang , Ruiyu Zhang , Feng Yuan , Yoshiaki Sofue , Tinggui Wang , Zhicheng He

The newly launched X-ray satellite, eRosita, has recently revealed two gigantic bubbles extending to ~80 degrees above and below the Galactic center. The morphology of these "eRosita bubbles" bears a remarkable resemblance to the Fermi…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-03-08 H. -Y. Karen Yang , M. Ruszkowski , E. Zweibel

The Fermi and eROSITA bubbles are giant gamma-ray and X-ray lobes in the Milky Way, extending up to $\sim$50{\deg} and ~$\sim$80{\deg} in galactic latitude, respectively, yet their origins remain debated. Using three-dimensional…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-03 Ruiyu Zhang , Fulai Guo , Shaokun Xie , Ruofei Zhang , Shumin Wang , Guobin Mou , Xiaodong Duan

The full, radio to $\gamma$-ray spectrum of the Fermi bubbles is shown to be consistent with standard strong-shock electron acceleration at the bubble edge, without the unnatural energy cutoffs and unrealistic electron cooling of previous…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-12-09 Uri Keshet , Ilya Gurwich , Assaf Lavi , Dina Avitan , Teodor Linnik

There are two contradictory views of the eROSITA bubbles: either a 10 kpc-scale pair of giant bubbles blown by the Galactic center (GC), or a 100 pc-scale local structure coincidentally located in the direction of GC. A key element of this…

Loop I is a nearby giant radio loop spanning over 100 degrees and centered on the Sco-Cen OB association. It may correspond to a superbubble formed by the joint action of stellar winds and supernova remnants. ROSAT observations revealed…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-13 Jean-Marc Casandjian , Isabelle Grenier

The X-ray bright bubbles at the Galactic Center provide an opportunity to understand the effects of feedback on galaxy evolution. The shells of the eROSITA bubbles show enhanced X-ray emission over the sky background. Previously, these…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-05-04 Anjali Gupta , Smita Mathur , Josh Kingsbury , Sanskriti Das , Yair Krongold

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

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

After discovery of the Fermi bubbles, giant structures observed in radio to X-rays have been discussed as possi- ble evidence of past activities in the Galactic Center (GC). We report here on the analysis of Suzaku data pointing around the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-08-08 Masahiro Akita , Jun Kataoka , Makoto Arimoto , Yoshiaki Sofue , Tomonori Totani , Yoshiyuki Inoue , Shinya Nakashima

The Fermi bubbles were possibly created by large injections of energy into the Galactic Center (GC), either by an active galactic nucleus (AGN) or by nuclear starburst more than ~10 Myr ago. However, the origin of the diffuse gamma-ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-03-12 Jun Kataoka , Yoshiaki Sofue , Yoshiyuki Inoue , Masahiro Akita , Shinya Nakashima , Tomonori Totani

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

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

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

The recent confirmation of the bipolarity of the eROSITA bubbles suggests that the well-known North Polar Spur (NPS)/Loop I probably is a 10 kpc sized relic in the Galactic halo and not a small local structure near the Sun. By virtue of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-02 Guobin Mou , Jianhao Wu , Yoshiaki Sofue

Gamma-ray data from Fermi-LAT reveal a bi-lobular structure extending up to 50 degrees above and below the galactic centre, which presumably originated in some form of energy release there less than a few million years ago. It has been…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-08-26 Philipp Mertsch , Subir Sarkar
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