IR shape of radio source

• by tcwang

  the IR image shape of upper left radio source looks strange.

  Posted July 8, 2016 6:05 AM

• by JeanTate in response to tcwang's comment.

  Yes, it does.

  That's because it's actually several different IR sources, but because of the relatively poor resolution of the IR image, they get blurred together. Here's what that funny, somewhat bent linear feature looks like, in SDSS (centered on the radio source, whose host is zsp 0.656 SDSS J152642.83+055852.1):

  

  Hope this helps, and happy hunting! 😃

  Posted July 11, 2016 12:55 AM