Question

• by fatha731

  What does "Extended Src" mean?

  Posted July 20, 2013 11:29 AM

• by JeanTate

  I don't know, but guess it's "extended source"; perhaps indicating that the photometric pipeline wasn't 100% sure it is a galaxy, because it's only slightly fuzzier than a "point source" (i.e. a star or quasar). The spectrum settles the question (it's a galaxy)

  Posted July 20, 2013 1:33 PM

• by fatha731

  OK thanks.

  Posted July 20, 2013 4:26 PM