Radio Galaxy Zoo Talk

Interaction between a jet and another Radio Source?

  • Ptd by Ptd

    http://radiotalk.galaxyzoo.org/#/subjects/ARG000247e

    I've a couple of comments on this one.

    1. The three radio sources line up with a linear feature in the background Radio image, so how reliable is this data?
    2. Assuming the data is OK. the lower right radio lobe is much stronger than the other, also the lower lobe has a dim IR source of its own, so could this be a jet which is incident on another radio strong galaxy? And if so, is that an interesting fact or not?

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  • ivywong by ivywong scientist, admin

    I suspect that these are possibly 3 individual sources. Often a the brightnesses of the lobes in a triple are quite similar. This is possibly an interesting case of projection. It'd be interesting at the end of this project to check for how often these chance projections occur.

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