7–12 Jul 2024
Aurum, the ‘Gabriele d’Annunzio’ University and ICRANet
Europe/Rome timezone

Non-thermal radiation due to CR transport in the magnetic halo of the Milky Way

9 Jul 2024, 18:00
20m
Europaurum (Aurum)

Europaurum

Aurum

Largo Gardone Riviera, Pescara, Italy
Talk in a parallel session High energy astrophysics High energy astrophysics

Speaker

Heshou Zhang (INAF - OA Brera)

Description

The large-scale structures such as Fermi Bubbles and eROSITA Bubbles provide a unique opportunity to study our Milky Way. However, the nature and origin of these large structures are still under debate. In this talk, I will present the identification of several kpc-scale magnetised structures based on their polarized radio emission and their gamma-ray counterparts, which can be interpreted as the radiation of relativistic electrons in the Galactic magnetic halo. These non-thermal structures extend far above and below the Galactic plane and are spatially coincident with the thermal X-ray emission from the eROSITA Bubbles. Multi-wavelength spectral energy distribution analyses have revealed that both thermal and non-thermal extended structures can be explained by Galactic outflows driven by the active star-forming regions located at 3 − 5 kpc from the Galactic Centre. These results reveal how X-ray-emitting and magnetised halos of spiral galaxies can be related to intense star formation activities.

Primary author

Heshou Zhang (INAF - OA Brera)

Co-authors

Dr Gabriele Ponti (INAF - OA Brera) Dr Ettore Carretti (INAF - IRA) Prof. Ruo-Yu Liu (Nanjing University) Prof. Mark Morris (UCLA) Prof. Marijke Haverkorn (Radboud University Nijmegen) Dr Nicola Locatelli (INAF - OA Brera) Ms Xueying Zheng (MPE) Prof. Felix Aharonian (Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies) Dr Hai-Ming Zhang (Nanjing University) Ms Yi Zhang (MPE) Mr Giovanni Stel (INAF - OA Brera) Prof. Andrew Strong (MPE) Mr Micheal Yeung (MPE) Dr Andrea Merloni (MPE)

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