Use of SIMBAD
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biggsjrex
moderator
I checked two good-looking candidates with SIMBAD, which identified one as a round galaxy and the other as a possible quasar. How do we proceed in cases like this - just mark them as not round in DSS?
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jdebes
scientist, admin
One thing to be careful about is that the current search radius that we're using is a bit large (larger than the red circle) and so SIMBAD may be pointing you to the wrong object--we're working to narrow that down so that SIMBAD only looks within the red circle. That said, if you see an object listed in SIMBAD and it's within ~10 arcseconds (or 0.2 arcminutes), it might be related. Check out http://blog.diskdetective.org/2014/02/02/the-power-and-danger-of-simbad/ for more info.
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