Radio Galaxy Zoo Talk

Mysterious X in IR

  • PattyD by PattyD

    There is not a single piece of this X formation that lands on a blazing IR source. The source object must be very interesting to produce this pattern without a large source visible. I am captivated!

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  • ivywong by ivywong scientist, admin

    HI @PattyD,

    Unfortunately the mysterious X is really an artefact of the processing pipeline and is not real. The X-shape of blobs that you see in the radio image is very similar to the diffraction spikes you see from bright stars in optical images.

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  • JeanTate by JeanTate in response to PattyD's comment.

    There is not a single piece of this X formation that lands on a blazing IR source

    Indeed, and as this SDSS/FIRST overlay image shows, nothing in the optical either (NED says the radio source is called MRC 1410+127, a.k.a. NVSS J141316+123401, 87GB 141051.1+124839 , etc); this is, perhaps, one of the brightest #ifrs objects in RGZ!

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    Also mentioned in the Chat thread x

    The image in this post was created from sources, and using methods, described in this RGZ Talk post. The object at the center of the image is (213.318, 12.567)

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