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Optical Morphologies of Millijansky Radio Galaxies Observed by the Hubble Space Telescope and in the Very Large Array FIRST Survey

  • Authors: J. Russell, R. E. Ryan, Jr., S. H. Cohen, R. A. Windhorst, and I. Waddington

Russell et al. 2008 The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series 179 306.

  • Provider: AAS Journals

Caption: Fig. 1.

Optical astrometric corrections in R.A. and decl. These relative offsets are computed as the positional difference between the HST WFPC2 and USNO coordinates for multiple stars in a given field. Both distributions are roughly Gaussian with mean values of ﹩( \Delta \alpha ,\Delta \delta ) =( -0.1^{\prime \prime },0.0^{\prime \prime }) ﹩, with standard deviations ﹩( \sigma ^{\mathrm{opt}\,}_{\alpha },\sigma ^{\mathrm{opt}\,}_{\delta }) =( 0.85^{\prime \prime },0.55^{\prime \prime }) ﹩. The ellipses represent the 1 σ, 2 σ, and 3 σ contours. These systematic offsets and uncertainties are used to determine the most likely optical identification for radio galaxies discussed in § 2.4.

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