RADIO CONTOUR EXPLOSION

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IS THE STAR THE RADIO CONTOUR SOURCE. ARE STARS OR GALAXIES ALL THE OTHER RADIO SOURCES.
ALSO NICE SPIRAL GALAXY WEST OF ALL THE CONTOURS.

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Posted June 18, 2014 6:08 PM

by 42jkb scientist, admin

The "contour explosion" has to do with the fact that the radio source is rather bright and are hard to deal with when making radio images. The star-like pattern is the response of the telescope and will look different for the different radio telescopes. The radio source is located at the centre of the pattern and the rest of the radio is artifacts.

Posted June 19, 2014 1:29 AM

by JeanTate in response to 42jkb's comment.

And it's clear it's the faint blue 'star' which is the source:

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However, for some reason the DR10 SDSS photometric pipeline doesn't recognize this as a photometric object! 😮

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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).

Posted July 1, 2014 9:00 PM