very strong jets

• by WizardHowl

  This #doublelobe #jet is one of the strongest and most #extended I've seen and is also very symmetrical but according to the contours the lower lobe is significantly brighter. The IR source at the centre is also fairly bright, so I would guess that from the scale this is a nearby, low-redshift galaxy.

  Posted December 22, 2013 10:24 PM

• by WizardHowl

  Have revisited this to try and track down the source but there are no candidates in the optical, however in WISE it is visible - just - in all four bands, RA: 230.703088 DEC: 11.687919 . If it is really a very distant galaxy, this may be worth adding to the list of potential giant candidates.

  Posted January 6, 2014 4:21 PM

• by JeanTate in response to WizardHowl's comment.

  Hmm.

  I think that SDSS J152248.75+114116.7 may be the central IR source; my crude position matching suggests that it's within the FWHM of the IR source (i.e. ~5"). It's certainly faint, and the photoz's are quite different (though both are > 0.35); by its color (in the SDSS Explore image) I'd say it's over 0.4. Also, it may be an interacting object:

  

  Posted January 6, 2014 5:52 PM