Radio Galaxy Zoo Talk

Is 87GB 121847.3+573629 a really bright IFRS?

  • JeanTate by JeanTate

    It's the #compact radio source in the center of ARG00008m0, and is 0.141' from STAR SDSS J122115.60+572025.9, per NED. This is what the offset is, in an SDSS cutout (the SDSS star is in the NE quadrant:

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    Of the references for this radio source, NED gives only one which seems to refer to an optical source, "Optical Counterparts for 70,000 Radio Sources: APM Identifications for the FIRST Radio Survey" (McMahon+ 2002). I haven't checked it, but I suspect they think this offset is within the combined margins of error, or they list it as "no optical counterpart".

    There's no obvious WISE source, in any band, that's close enough to count as a source, though there may be a marginal source in bands 1 and/or 3.

    If this is, in fact, an #ifrs it must be a really radio loud one! 😃

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