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Fermi bubbles: Giant, multibillion-year-old reservoirs of galactic center cosmic rays

Date

Authors

Crocker, Roland

Aharonian, Felix

Publisher

American Physical Society

Abstract

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

Keywords

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

URI

http://hdl.handle.net/1885/78530

Collections

ANU Research Publications

Source

Physical Review Letters

Type

Journal article

Access Statement

Open Access

DOI

10.1103/PhysRevLett.106.101102

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