Second-order Fermi acceleration as the origin of the Fermi bubbles

Gamma-ray data from Fermi-LAT show a bi-lobular structure extending up to 50°above and below the Galactic centre, coincident with a possibly related structure in the ROSAT X-ray map which presumably originated in some energy release close to the centre a few million years ago. It has been argued tha...

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Main Authors: Mertsch, P, Sarkar, S
Format: Conference item
Published: 2012