Radio Galaxy Zoo Talk

ARG0003e29, hourglass or wat, gravitational lens, SDRAGN candidate?

  • ChrisMolloy by ChrisMolloy

    Here's ARG0003e29, which appears to be either a #wat or an #hourglass, with an unusual curvature. The contour overlay below is centred on SDSS J162132.36+060719.1, which is south of the ARG co-ordinates listed left.

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    The contour overlay image in this post was created from sources, and using methods, described in this RGZ Talk
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    The host for the emission is SDSS J162132.36+060719.1, which has a z_ph=0.350 ± 0.0164, and an NED z_sp=0.343. This object has radio references in NED and SIMBAD and an ALLWISE reference, ALLWISE J162132.39+060719.3. This galaxy is cited as being the brightest galaxy in a #cluster (BCG), and also has #gravitational-lens citations in NED and SIMBAD. This object is listed and imaged in the following paper: Gemini/GMOS Spectroscopy of 26 Strong Lensing Selected Galaxy Cluster Cores. This galaxy could also be #disk like in morphology.

    SDSS J162132.36+060719.1

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    In terms of the morphology of this galaxy, and whether it could be an #SDRAGN candidate, it has a fracDev_g, _r, of 1 and 1; and an expAB_g of 0.768 and expAB_r of 0.919 respectively. For c, the inverse concentration index, it has a figure of 0.416 for the g band and 0.343 for the r band. On these figures, possibly not a #disk galaxy or #SDRAGN candidate. Others may have a view on this.

    This ARG field hasn't been imaged in VLASS as yet.

    As always, comments, suggestions, welcome.

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