Radio Galaxy Zoo Talk

ARG0003n9v - a giant with a green, not-a-boring-elliptical host?

  • JeanTate by JeanTate

    SDSS J025210.17+025430.1, z_ph 0.276 ± 0.0937/0.266 ± 0.0884, certainly seems to host an impressive pair of lobes, as well as a faint radio-nucleus; the E lobe has a strange shape (in FIRST). It also looks rather green, and not really like an elliptical:

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    Generic boilerplate: Background image is either SDSS per http://skyservice.pha.jhu.edu/DR10/ImgCutout/getjpeg.aspx', or a "Luptonized" image produced from either WISE (3.4μ, 4.6μ, and 12μ bands) or DSS2 (derived from B, R, and IR plates) FITS files obtained from SkyView with Python code described in this RGZ Talk post. FIRST (red) and/or NVSS (cyan) contours are derived from FITS files produced using SkyView with Python code described in this RGZ Talk thread. The image center (J2000.0) is the SDSS galaxy SDSS J025210.17+025430.1; z_sp (z_ph) its spectroscopic (photometric) redshift.

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