Radio Galaxy Zoo Talk

ARG0002g36 - bent jet and lobe, host has odd companions

  • JeanTate by JeanTate

    SDSS J161627.36+182924.0 has a dead and red z_sp 0.232 SDSS spectrum. And it has some rather odd companions; satellite galaxies? or remnants of a merger?

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    Do these companions influence the radio structure?

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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 (J2000.0) is the galaxy SDSS J161627.36+182924.0; "z_sp" its SDSS spectroscopic redshift.

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