Origin of the Fermi Bubble
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 yr and energy release erg per capture can produce very hot plasma keV with a wind velocity cm/s injected into the halo and heat up the halo gas to keV, which produces thermal X-rays. The periodic injection of hot plasma can produce shocks in the halo and accelerate electrons to TeV, which produce radio emission via synchrotron radiation, and gamma-rays via inverse Compton scattering with the relic and the galactic soft photons.
Cite
@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}
}
Comments
16 pages, 1 figure, accepted for publication in ApJ Letters