ARG0002crk - FIRSTJ155115.8+200320 - Giant radio galaxy 3C 326

• by Dolorous_Edd

  VLA FIRST : larger perspective

  NVSS image size 0.45 degree ( on the left ) Wait!! it is getting even better!!! image size 0.75 degree ( on the right )

  
  

  GB6 (4850Mhz): 4850 MHz Survey - GB6/PMN - 1 degree field

  

  Posted January 5, 2014 8:40 PM

• by Dolorous_Edd

  Mistery solved!

  http://ned.ipac.caltech.edu/cgi-bin/objsearch?search_type=Obj_id&objid=176115329&objname=2&img_stamp=YES&hconst=73.0&omegam=0.27&omegav=0.73&corr_z=1

  Pictures!!!

  http://ned.ipac.caltech.edu/cgi-bin/imgdata?objname=3C+326+++++++++++++++++++++++&hconst=73.0&omegam=0.27&omegav=0.73&corr_z=1

  It is known Giant radio galaxy 3C 326 ~ 2 Mpc ... if I am not mistaken .. here it is .. painted in pretty colors

  
  

  Posted January 5, 2014 9:41 PM

• by JeanTate in response to Dolorous Edd's comment.

  It really is quite amazing. 😮

  The first (smaller) NVSS image looks like a nice double jet/lobe+core, albeit quite large (on the sky), suggesting that it's pretty close, and so the core would/should be a bright ETG. Yet I could find nothing like that, in the optical, in any IR, or even any x-ray source (I used SkyView) near the core's apparent location (237.896, 20.07).

  Surely this is a well-known object!?!

  Posted January 5, 2014 9:46 PM

• by JeanTate in response to Dolorous Edd's comment.

  Right ... so I was looking in the wrong place, its location is (238.03796, 20.09673).

  Here it is in SDSS (SDSS J155209.11+200548.2):

  

  It has an SDSS spectrum, z=0.090, with many prominent emission lines ("STARFORMING BROADLINE" Hah! It's an AGN).

  Posted January 5, 2014 9:55 PM

• by akapinska scientist

  Great job guys!

  Posted January 6, 2014 2:53 AM