ARG000150p - hourglass, odd host, or is it a background source?

• by JeanTate

  From the Suggestions for RGZ Objects to show with detailed FIRST contours overlaid on SDSS images thread, started by WizardHowl:

  http://radiotalk.galaxyzoo.org/#/subjects/ARG000150p hourglass, odd host, or is it a background source?

  I think it's a background source:

  

  The odd-looking galaxy has an SDSS photometric redshift of 0.621 ± 0.2430/0.205 ± 0.2546 (!); there's really no other SDSS DR10 photometric object (blue circles) which might be host:

  

  Boilerplate: SDSS image per http://skyservice.pha.jhu.edu/DR10/ImgCutout/getjpeg.aspx, FIRST (red) contours derived from the FITS file produced using SkyView with Python code described in this RGZ Talk thread. Image center per SDSS J131123.16+402216.4, very close to ARG000150p (J2000.0). "z_ph" is an SDSS photometric redshift of the galaxy in the center.

  Posted July 29, 2014 7:17 PM