Arp 299
nrao_NRAO_Gallery010
Credit: B. Saxton from data provided by J. Ulvestad, S. Neff S. Teng; NRAO/AUI/NSF and NASA/ESA HST
This colliding pair of galaxies is a region of vigorous star formation which has been investigated for many years. Since 1990, four supernova explosions have been seen optically in Arp 299. Observations with the Very Large Array (VLA) showed a region near the nucleus of one of the colliding galaxies which had all the earmarks of prolific star formation. Observations with the Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) and the Green Bank Telescope (GBT) in 2002 and 2003 led to the discovery of 5 supernovae concentrated in this region. In this image, the radio data (in pink) have been merged with a visible light image of the pair from the Hubble Space Telescope.
Provider: National Radio Astronomy Observatory
Image Source: https://public.nrao.edu/gallery/arp-299-2/
Curator: NRAO/AUI/NSF, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/)
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Image Details
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Position Details
Color Mapping
- ID
- NRAO_Gallery010
- Subject Category
- C.5.1.7
- Subject Name
- Arp 229, IC 694, NGC 3690
- Credits
- B. Saxton from data provided by J. Ulvestad, S. Neff S. Teng; NRAO/AUI/NSF and NASA/ESA HST
- Release Date
- Lightyears
- 1.34E+08
- Redshift
- 1.34E+08
- Reference Url
- https://public.nrao.edu/gallery/arp-299-2/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Good
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- VLA, HST, HST, HST
- Instrument
- Color Assignment
- Red, Green, Blue, Red
- Band
- Radio, Optical, Optical, Optical
- Bandpass
- L, V, B, R
- Central Wavelength
- 2.0136E+08, -, -, -
- Start Time
- 1991-11-29, -, 2008-01-01T11:00:53, 2008-01-01T11:01:36
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- 2000.0
- Reference Value
- 172.13154029900, 58.56712719780
- Reference Dimension
- 2580, 2512
- Reference Pixel
- 1390.83959619464, 1636.31037989417
- Scale
- -0.00001094531, 0.00001094531
- Rotation
- 0.19094137545
- Coordinate System Projection:
- TAN
- Quality
- Full
- FITS Header
- Notes
- World Coordinate System resolved using PinpointWCS 0.9.2 revision 218+ by the Chandra X-ray Center
- Creator (Curator)
- NRAO/AUI/NSF
- URL
- https://public.nrao.edu
- Name
- NRAO/AUI/NSF
- outreach@nrao.edu
- Telephone
- Address
- 520 Edgemont Road
- City
- Charlottesville
- State/Province
- Virginia
- Postal Code
- 22903
- Country
- USA
- Rights
- Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/)
- Publisher
- NRAO/AUI/NSF
- Publisher ID
- nrao
- Resource ID
- Resource URL
- https://public.nrao.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Arp-299-UPDATE.jpg
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2018-04-12T18:54:21+00:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.2
Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
