Radio Galaxy Zoo Talk

ARG0003ayt - strong hourglass host is a bulgeless, starforming local irregular?

  • JeanTate by JeanTate

    SDSS J150700.55+071316.5 is a z_sp 0.030 featureless not-quite-blue irregular (or perhaps a bulgeless Sd/weak bulge Sc flocculent spiral):

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    Yet it is the apparent host of a strong hourglass/doublelobe radio galaxy! 😮

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    Or perhaps the host is the faint red blob in the outskirts? It's z_ph 0.61 SDSS J150700.12+071320.4:

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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 J150700.55+071316.5; "z_sp" its SDSS spectroscopic redshift.

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