Radio Galaxy Zoo Talk

WAT?

  • DiNapoli by DiNapoli

    what does "WAT" mean?

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  • JeanTate by JeanTate

    Welcome to Radio Galaxy Zoo, DiNapoli!

    wide-angle tail; it's where the pair of jets/lobes from the core (the 'host', the galaxy with the super-massive black hole in its nucleus) do not appear as backo-to-back features, but are rather bent into two streams ('tails') that make an oblique angle (sorta).

    If the tails are bent so the angle is less than ~90 degrees, the morphology (shape) is called a NAT (narrow-angled tail).

    Hope this helps! 😃

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  • ivywong by ivywong scientist, admin

    Thanks heaps @JeanTate.

    Welcome @DiNapoli!

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