Radio Galaxy Zoo Talk

How many sources?

  • Cardiffian by Cardiffian

    Not sure whether this is one radio source, or two with one behind the other.

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

    Happy New Year 2017, Cardiffian! 😃

    As antikodon noted, this is 3C 215, which is a WAT (wide-angle tail) radio source, with a QSO as host (zsp 0.411 SDSS J090631.87+164611.8). It's a single radio source, though I must say, however, that the radio morphology does look strange, even for a WAT.

    There's a separate, faint, #compact radio source to the SWS, with zsp 0.438 host SDSS J090631.04+164522.6:

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    Hope this helps, and happy hunting! 😃

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