ARG0003hgc - odd blue cloud near galaxy

• by Dolorous_Edd

  SDSS J121500.75+050051.2 - 1237655125545779303

  

  maybe the result of interaction with

  SDSS J121502.38+050049.0 - 1237655125545779446 ?

  

  Posted February 21, 2017 7:34 PM

• by Budgieye

  I'm not sure which blue cloud I am supposed to be looking at. Can you help me out here?

  Posted February 23, 2017 2:53 PM

• by JeanTate in response to Budgieye's comment.

  I think Dolorous_Edd is referring to (left) zph 0.33±0.08 SDSS J121500.23+050046.3, and/or possibly (right) zph 0.24±0.05 SDSS J121501.25+050051.7:

  

  #voorwerpjies?

  Posted February 23, 2017 9:43 PM

• by Budgieye

  Well, lensed galaxies are usually curved around the lensing galaxy. This one looks straight. They are also narrow, this is fuzzy. Often a bright blue or blue white with some magenta.

  3.9 Gravitational lenses https://talk.galaxyzoo.org/#/boards/BGZ0000001/discussions/DGZ0000wrb?page=3

  Is there information in the radio image which indicates arcs outside the main galaxy?

  The red colour in the nucleus indicates that the galaxy has an AGN.

  Posted February 27, 2017 10:12 PM

• by JeanTate in response to Budgieye's comment.

  Whatever the purple-blue thingies are, they are not GL arcs. And the galaxy certainly has an AGN; the spectrum is quite unambiguous! 😃

  

  Some sort of EELR perhaps?

  Posted February 28, 2017 10:08 PM