Radio Galaxy Zoo Talk

ARG0000da3 - is the host a giant, messed up spiral?

  • JeanTate by JeanTate

    At z_sp 0.351, SDSS J103556.67+542612.5 is too far away for any but the most gigantic of disk galaxies to appear as spirals in SDSS images (source); nonetheless it does look unlike a boring z=0.35 elliptical:

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    It is the host of a rather large triple; quite amazing if it is, in fact, a disk galaxy:

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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 J103556.67+542612.5; "z_sp" its SDSS spectroscopic redshift.

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