Abstract
The Galactic center is widely anticipated to be an important cosmic-ray source and the observations of some Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes did successfully reveal a new component of TeV-PeV cosmic rays in the vicinity of the Galactic center. This work reports the identification of GeV-TeV cosmic rays in the central molecular zone with the gamma-ray observations of the Fermi-LAT. The spectrum and spatial gradient of the GeV-TeV source component are consistent with that measured by the Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes. The inferred cosmic-ray energy density in the central molecular zone region is, however, substantially lower than the so-called cosmic-ray sea component. Our finding is in support of the presence of a high energy particle accelerator at the Galactic center and strongly suggests a barrier that can effectively suppress the penetration of the particles from the cosmic-ray sea to the central molecular zone.
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