Radio Galaxy Zoo Talk

ARG0000j2i - large, faint, mis-shapen green host of normal-looking doublelobes?

  • JeanTate by JeanTate

    At z_ph 0.340±0.1280/0.351±0.0979, SDSS J165042.71+511258.2 must be far too big to be an irregular, it's rather too misshapen to be a disk galaxy, and no self-respecting ordinary elliptical would be caught wearing those colors! Maybe the photometric redshift estimate is way off?

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    In any case, what's it doing being the host of this fairly normal-looking FIRST doublelobe?

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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 J165042.71+511258.2; "z_ph" its SDSS photometric redshift.

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