Radio Galaxy Zoo Talk

ARG0002ako - Strange

  • JeanTate by JeanTate

    SDSS J113357.00+210537.0, z_ph 0.067±0.0148/0.086±0.0241
    , is a boring elliptical:

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    Or not ... it seems to be in the process of eating merging with a disk galaxy; is this merger the trigger for its intense, mostly nuclear, radio emission?

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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 J113357.00+210537.0; "z_sp" its SDSS spectroscopic redshift.

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