Analysis of Milky Way Fermi bubble high-velocity clouds suggests a foreign origin NatureAstronomy
The Galactic Centre is surrounded by two giant plasma lobes known as the Fermi bubbles, extending ~10 kpc both above and below the Galactic plane. Spectroscopic observations of Fermi bubble directions at radio, ultraviolet and optical wavelengths have detected multi-phase gas clouds thought to be embedded within the bubbles, referred to as Fermi bubble high-velocity clouds .
Here we show that FB HVCs have a wide range of metallicities from <20% of solar to ~320% of solar, based on a metallicity survey of twelve FB HVCs. These metallicities challenge the previously accepted tenet that all FB HVCs are launched from the Galactic Centre into the Fermi bubbles with solar or supersolar metallicities. Instead, we suggest that FB HVCs originate in both the Milky Way’s disk and halo.
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