Multimessenger study of the Fermi bubbles: Very high energy gamma rays and neutrinos

Cecilia Lunardini, Soebur Razzaque, Lili Yang

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Abstract

The Fermi bubbles have been imaged in sub-TeV gamma rays at Fermi-LAT, and, if their origin is hadronic, they might have been seen with low statistics in ∼0.1-1PeV neutrinos at IceCube. We discuss the detectability of these objects at the new High Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) gamma-ray detector. HAWC will view the north bubble for ∼2-3 hours a day and will map its spectrum at 0.1-100 TeV. For the hard primary proton spectrum required to explain five events at IceCube, a high significance detection at HAWC will be achieved in less than 30 days. The combination of results at HAWC and IceCube will substantiate the hadronic model, or constrain its spectral parameters.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Article number021301
JournalPhysical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology
Volume92
Issue number2
DOIs
StatePublished - Jul 17 2015

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Nuclear and High Energy Physics
  • Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous)

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