Galaxy Zoo Talk

Jets?

  • colcol by colcol

    Side view with two #jets?

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  • Starsheriff by Starsheriff

    looks like, nice

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  • pcris by pcris

    seems to have a verry bright active nucleus #AGN. Maybe a symmetric #jet due to huge central black hole ...?

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  • ElisabethB by ElisabethB moderator

    I'd go for an edge on with a very bright bulge.(no jets, sorry!)
    After some squinting I could go for a possible #polarring

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  • pcris by pcris

    a jet is seen the same from anywhere you look at it except if you're in front of them.
    but a ring is seen linear only if it is edge-on. That way I think, it is a real probability to be a jet.
    But... it can be also just an optical artifact.

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  • ElisabethB by ElisabethB moderator

    Still not convinced it's a jet. We had these discussions in the early Zoos too and we were told that it's (almost) impossible to see jets in these images. So, my guess is a possible polar ring

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  • pcris by pcris

    I understand and I think you are right. What intrigues me is that line perfectly straight.

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  • ElisabethB by ElisabethB moderator

    In the very worst case it could be a diffraction spike because the center is very bright !
    I'd still go for a possible polar ring !

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  • Terrance_L._Johnson by Terrance_L._Johnson

    Sorry Elisabeth, I posted this comment before I opened this discussion and saw you had the same idea.

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  • ElisabethB by ElisabethB moderator

    Great minds think alike ! ;-D

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