Radio Galaxy Zoo Talk

ARG0002whf - hourglass emission from edge-on spiral

  • JeanTate by JeanTate

    From page 2 of the thread, post by WizardHowl:

    The hourglass emission from this edge-on disk galaxy is not the largest of radio sources but that also means it is clearer that it is the origin (although a background source can never be ruled out except by higher resolution observations, as per the usual caveat). The galaxy is SDSS J080259.73+115709.7 Z_ph~0.13-0.14.

    The shape of the disk seems slightly distorted or bent and there is an odd colouration to the nucleus. I would be hesitant to rule out star formation as the source but that would need further imaging to say whether it was coincident with the radio.

    http://radiotalk.galaxyzoo.org/#/subjects/ARG0002whf

    A contour overlay version, ARG0002whf:

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    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 is the galaxy SDSS J080259.73+115709.7, near the ARG image (ARG0002whf; J2000.0). "z_sp" is an SDSS spectroscopic redshift of the galaxy in the center.

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