Radio Galaxy Zoo Talk

3 GREEN OR BLUE STARS NEAR RADIO SOURCE

  • 1001G by 1001G

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  • xDocR by xDocR

    Pretty unusual field. Not clear these "stars" are connected with the radio object.

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  • JeanTate by JeanTate in response to xDocR's comment.

    Indeed; the host of the hourglass source seems to be invisible in SDSS gri [1] (smoothed FIRST contours in red):

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    [1] an RGB JPEG produced, by SDSS, using the three bands g (as B ), r (as G), and i (as R)

    Boilerplate: SDSS image per http://skyservice.pha.jhu.edu/DR10/ImgCutout/getjpeg.aspx, FIRST contours derived from FITS files produced using SkyView with Python code described in this RGZ Talk thread. Image center per the ARG image (left; J2000).

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