Radio Galaxy Zoo Talk

ARG00021nf - merger remnant/distorted spiral as host of giant double lobe?

  • JeanTate by JeanTate

    SDSS J083856.31+244701.4, at z_ph 0.261±0.0440/0.252±0.0872, is pretty big, and is clearly not a boring elliptical:

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    Now if only there were some nuclear radio emission, we could be sure it's the host:

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    Instead of, perhaps, z_ph 0.65 SDSS J083853.97+244634.9:

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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 J083856.31+244701.4; "z_ph" its SDSS photometric redshift.

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