The Origin of the Fermi Halo-like Emission: A New Model of the Fermi Bubbles

arXiv:2610.10695 · astro-ph.HE, astro-ph.CO, hep-ph · Submitted 2026-10-07 · Read on arXiv

astro-ph.HE, astro-ph.CO, hep-ph

Submitted: 2026-10-07

Updated: 2026-10-07

Terminology

• Inner Bubbles — 68× in this paper
• Galactic Center — 13× in this paper
• Degeneracy — 11× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Robustness — 7× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• AGN — 4× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Anisotropy — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Trace — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• The Large Area Telescope on the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope Mission
• Fermi Large Area Telescope First Source Catalog
• The First Catalog of Active Galactic Nuclei Detected by the Fermi Large Area Telescope
• Fermi Large Area Telescope Second Source Catalog
• The First Fermi LAT Gamma-Ray Burst Catalog
• Fermi Large Area Telescope Third Source Catalog
• Fermi Large Area Telescope Fourth Source Catalog
• The Fourth Catalog of Active Galactic Nuclei Detected by the Fermi Large Area Telescope
• Fermi Large Area Telescope Fourth Source Catalog Data Release 2
• Incremental Fermi Large Area Telescope Fourth Source Catalog
• The Fourth Catalog of Active Galactic Nuclei Detected by the Fermi Large Area Telescope -- Data Release 3
• Fermi Large Area Telescope Fourth Source Catalog Data Release 4 (4FGL-DR4)
• Possible Evidence For Dark Matter Annihilation In The Inner Milky Way From The Fermi Gamma Ray Space Telescope
• Indirect Search for Dark Matter from the center of the Milky Way with the Fermi-Large Area Telescope
• Dark Matter Annihilation in The Galactic Center As Seen by the Fermi Gamma Ray Space Telescope
• The Consistency of Fermi-LAT Observations of the Galactic Center with a Millisecond Pulsar Population in the Central Stellar Cluster
• Dark Matter and Pulsar Model Constraints from Galactic Center Fermi-LAT Gamma Ray Observations
• Giant Gamma-ray Bubbles from Fermi-LAT: AGN Activity or Bipolar Galactic Wind?
• The Fermi Haze: A Gamma-Ray Counterpart to the Microwave Haze
• The Spectrum and Morphology of the Fermi Bubbles

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