Black Holes Shine for NuSTAR
nustar_nustar130905b September 5th, 2013
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
An optical color image of galaxies is seen here overlaid with X-ray data (magenta) from NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR).
NuSTAR's serendipitous discovery in this field lies to the left of a galaxy, called IC 751, at which the telescope originally intended to look. Both magenta blobs show X-rays from massive black holes buried at the hearts of galaxies.
The optical image is from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and a color composite of images over three different optical wavebands (the G, R, and I bands). The NuSTAR data shows X-rays in the 3 to 24 keV energy range.
Provider: Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array
Image Source: https://nustar.caltech.edu/image/nustar130905b
Curator: NuSTAR: Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, Pasadena, CA
Image Use Policy: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/imagepolicy/
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- ID
- nustar130905b
- Subject Category
- C.5.1.1
- Subject Name
- IC 751
- Credits
- NASA/JPL-Caltech
- Release Date
- 2013-09-05
- Lightyears
- 437,000,000
- Redshift
- 0.031199
- Reference Url
- https://nustar.caltech.edu/image/nustar130905b
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Good
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- NuSTAR, SDSS, SDSS, SDSS
- Instrument
- Color Assignment
- Purple, Blue, Green, Red
- Band
- X-ray, Optical, Optical, Optical
- Bandpass
- -, G-band, R-band, I-band
- Central Wavelength
- 0.07749, 550, 700, 900
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- 2000.0
- Reference Value
- 179.71915000000, 42.57034000000
- Reference Dimension
- 3200.00, 1800.00
- Reference Pixel
- 2136.17644076704, 1158.16380693678
- Scale
- -0.00005554762, 0.00005554762
- Rotation
- 0.11899728713
- Coordinate System Projection:
- TAN
- Quality
- Full
- FITS Header
- Notes
- Creator (Curator)
- NuSTAR: Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array
- URL
- http://www.nustar.caltech.edu
- Name
- Telephone
- Address
- City
- Pasadena
- State/Province
- CA
- Postal Code
- Country
- Rights
- http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/imagepolicy/
- Publisher
- Publisher ID
- nustar
- Resource ID
- Resource URL
- https://nustar.caltech.edu/system/avm_image_sqls/binaries/6/original/B-NuSTAR-blackhole.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2018-06-21T00:32:37Z
- Metadata Version
- 1.2
Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
