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2011ApJ...731L..17C - Astrophys. J., 731, L17 (2011/April-2)

Origin of the Fermi bubble.

CHENG K.-S., CHERNYSHOV D.O., DOGIEL V.A., KO C.-M. and IP W.-H.

Abstract (from CDS):

Fermi has discovered two giant gamma-ray-emitting bubbles that extend nearly 10 kpc in diameter north and south of the Galactic center. 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 3x10–5/yr and energy release ∼3x1052 erg per capture can produce very hot plasma ∼10 keV with a wind velocity ∼108 cm/s injected into the halo and heat up the halo gas to ∼1 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.

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Journal keyword(s): black hole physics - galaxies: jets - Galaxy: halo - radiation mechanisms: non-thermal

Simbad objects: 4

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