The Green Bean galaxy J2240
noirlab_geminiann12015a November 30th, 2012
Credit: CFHT/ESO/M. Schirmer
CFHT color image, taken in g,r, and i filters, of J2240. The very strong [OIII] emission leads to the peculiar green color of the galaxy near the center of the field. In this object the ultra-luminous narrow-line region (NLR) is as large as the entire object, 130,000 light-years across. The object is located some 3.7 billion light-years distant and the galactic nucleus doesn’t appear very active in the image, contradicting the high [OIII] luminosity discussed in this story.
Provider: NOIRLab
Image Source: https://noirlab.edu/public/images/geminiann12015a/
Curator: NSF's NOIRLab, Tucson, AZ, USA
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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Image Details
Position Details
Color Mapping
- ID
- geminiann12015a
- Subject Category
- D.5.3.2
- Subject Name
- Green Bean Galaxy, SDSS J224024.10-092748.1
- Credits
- CFHT/ESO/M. Schirmer
- Release Date
- 2012-11-30T16:30:27
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://noirlab.edu/public/images/geminiann12015a/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope, Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope, Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope
- Instrument
- MegaCam, MegaCam, MegaCam
- Color Assignment
- Red, Green, Blue
- Band
- Optical, Optical, Optical
- Bandpass
- i, r, g
- Central Wavelength
- 776, 640, 475
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- None, None, None
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 340.101636523, -9.46343920087
- Reference Dimension
- 500.0, 477.0
- Reference Pixel
- 250.0, 238.5
- Scale
- -9.91055849989e-05, 9.91055849989e-05
- Rotation
- -0
- Coordinate System Projection:
- TAN
- Quality
- Full
- FITS Header
- Notes
- Creator (Curator)
- NSF's NOIRLab
- URL
- https://noirlab.edu
- Name
- Telephone
- Address
- 950 North Cherry Ave.
- City
- Tucson
- State/Province
- AZ
- Postal Code
- 85719
- Country
- USA
- Rights
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
- Publisher
- NSF's NOIRLab
- Publisher ID
- noirlab
- Resource ID
- geminiann12015a
- Resource URL
- http://noirlab.edu/public/media/archives/images/original/geminiann12015a.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2021-07-16T16:37:00.920178
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
