Radio Galaxy Zoo Talk

ARG00002xy - something strange ...

  • JeanTate by JeanTate

    The central radio source seems quite ordinary (slightly elongated core, perhaps a weak jet?), but the likely host does not (the other two radio sources are, most likely, unrelated).

    Here it is in SDSS:

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    The white (yellowish) blob to the W (right) is not a separate photometric object in SDSS; it could be an overlapping (foreground) star, or galaxy; it could be ...

    There is a spectrum, and it is about as 'dead and red' as you could imagine, with no trace of any line emission. So what's generating the radio signal?

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