Have we found the counterpart signal of the Fermi bubbles at the cosmic-ray positrons?
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Abstract
The inner galaxy has hosted cosmic-ray burst events including those responsible for the gamma-ray extit{Fermi} bubbles and the extit{eROSITA} bubbles in X-rays. In this work, we study the extit{AMS-02} positron fraction and find three features around 12, 21 and 48 GeV of which the lowest energy has a 1.4 to 4.9-$sigma$ significance, depending on astrophysical background assumptions. Using background simulations that explain the cosmic-ray positron fraction, positron flux and electron plus positron flux, by primary, secondary cosmic rays and cosmic rays from local pulsars, we test these spectral features as originating from electron/positron burst events from the inner galaxy. We find the 12 GeV feature, to be explained by an event of age $ au simeq 3 - 10$ Myr; in agreement with the proposed age of the extit{Fermi} bubbles. Furthermore, the energy in cosmic-ray electrons and positrons propagating along the galactic disk and not within the extit{Fermi} bubbles volume, is estimated to be $10^{51.5}-10^{57.5}$ ergs, or $O(10^{-4}) -O(1)$ the cosmic-ray energy causing the extit{Fermi} bubbles. We advocate that these positron fraction features, are the counterpart signals of the extit{Fermi} bubbles, or of substructures in them, or of the extit{eROSITA} bubbles.
*IC acknowledges support from the Michigan Space Grant Consortium, NASA Grant No. 80NSSC20M0124.IC acknowledges that this material is based upon work supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of High Energy Physics, under Award No. DE-SC0022352.
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Publication: Ilias Cholis and Iason Krommydas, "Utilizing cosmic- ray positron and electron observations to probe the av- eraged properties of Milky Way pulsars," Phys. Rev. D 105, 023015 (2022),
Ilias Cholis and Iason Krommydas, "Possible counter- part signal of the Fermi bubbles at the cosmic-ray positrons," (2022), arXiv:2208.07880 [astro-ph.HE].
Presenters
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Ilias Cholis
- Oakland University