Radio Galaxy Zoo Talk

WISE systematic?

  • WizardHowl by WizardHowl

    When using the WISE button here to look at the different WISE bands there is an extended feature in bands 1 and 2 at RA: 159.875214 DEC: 28.33886 that does not appear in the RGZ infrared image. The first question is therefore: why is this not here in the RGZ image when it is present in WISE bands 1 and 2? The second question is, obviously: what is it? The area of the sky it appears in is completely blank in both IR/optical so I suspect a systematic, perhaps one that may have been removed by the RGZ pipeline? There are several bright IR sources nearby, so perhaps it is an internal reflection in the optics? I have not seen anything like this before with the WISE images and thought it best to ask what might be going on.

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  • Dolorous_Edd by Dolorous_Edd

    Can bright IR source in the top left corner mess with color scale, rendering it poorly visible? I think you can see hints of this source on the RGZ picture.

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