Radio Galaxy Zoo Talk

Large infrared presence

  • laurap18 by laurap18

    Hello, I was wondering how you mark the infrared source in an image like this when there is such a large amount of sources. Thanks!

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  • JeanTate by JeanTate in response to laurap18's comment.

    Welcome to Radio Galaxy Zoo, laurap18! 😃

    The short answer is that, given the data (image) presented, you can't. Not reliably anyway.

    A longer answer might be something like: your pattern recognition system is superb, vastly better than anything computers can do today. Once you have some experience - having classified a few dozen to a hundred images - you will very likely develop some sort of intuition as to where the IR source would be, if the image were not saturated (so much white!). Then just use your intuition/best judgement.

    Well, that's the personal opinion of this ordinary zooite, but I hope it helps some.

    Happy hunting! 😄

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  • JeanTate by JeanTate in response to laurap18's comment.

    This is, as antikodon notes, a (very!) #bent #wat ... but an asymmetric one, with the W lobe having three hotspots, but the E one just one. The host is z_sp 0.268 SDSS J131739.51+191020.7

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    The image in this post was created from sources, and using methods, described in this RGZ Talk post. The object at the center of the image is SDSS J131739.51+191020.7

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