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Origin of the Fermi Bubble

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena 2015-05-27 v1

Abstract

Fermi has discovered two giant gamma-ray-emitting bubbles that extend nearly 10kpc in diameter north and south of the galactic center (GC). The existence of the bubbles was first evidenced in X-rays detected by ROSAT and later WMAP detected an excess of radio signals at the location of the gamma-ray bubbles. We propose that periodic star capture processes by the galactic supermassive black hole, Sgr A^*, with a capture rate 3×1053\times 10^{-5}yr1^{-1} and energy release 3×1052\sim 3\times 10^{52}erg per capture can produce very hot plasma 10\sim 10keV with a wind velocity 108\sim 10^8cm/s injected into the halo and heat up the halo gas to 1\sim 1keV, which produces thermal X-rays. The periodic injection of hot plasma can produce shocks in the halo and accelerate electrons to \simTeV, which produce radio emission via synchrotron radiation, and gamma-rays via inverse Compton scattering with the relic and the galactic soft photons.

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@article{arxiv.1103.1002,
  title  = {Origin of the Fermi Bubble},
  author = {K. S. Cheng and D. O. Chernyshov and V. A. Dogiel and C. -M. Ko and W. -H. Ip},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1103.1002},
  year   = {2015}
}

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16 pages, 1 figure, accepted for publication in ApJ Letters

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