Fermi bubbles: Giant, multibillion-year-old reservoirs of galactic center cosmic rays
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2011
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Crocker, Roland
Aharonian, Felix
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American Physical Society
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Recently evidence has emerged for enormous features in the γ-ray sky observed by the Fermi-LAT instrument: bilateral "bubbles" of emission centered on the core of the Galaxy and extending to around ± 10 kpc from the Galactic plane. These structures are
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Keywords: Cosmic ray protons; Galactic Center; Galactic plane; High areal density; Non-thermal microwaves; Order of magnitude; Star formations; Time-scales; Uniform intensity; X-ray emission; X-ray luminosity; Cosmic rays; Population statistics; Luminance
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Physical Review Letters
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