Radio Galaxy Zoo Talk

Disturbed QSO?

  • Ptd by Ptd

    In SDSS this galaxy maybe looks like it has either a large white outflow or its a merger in progress?

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

    Here's what the host, SDSS J102556.28+125348.9 looks like:

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    NED gives its redshift as 0.663, and no less than 33 refs! 😮

    If the redshift is indeed 0.663, then I'd say the white thing is the AGN/QSO, and the fuzz to the S and SW is a foreground galaxy (there are quite a few nearby galaxies with considerably smaller zphs). However, that fuzz may be part of a galaxy merger, the nucleus of one party being the QSO (it's apparently a blazar, by the way). Despite the wide range of zphs of the nearby (on the sky) galaxies, they may (nearly) all be part of a z ~0.66 rich cluster.

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  • 42jkb by 42jkb scientist, admin

    Indeed, hard to say. Most likely a chance alignment as JeanTate describes.

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