Disk Detective Talk

Unknown thing that's bright in infrared.

  • Artman40 by Artman40

    While I was headbanging to William Herschel symphonies, I found this object. This looks like a star with something that can vaguely described as diffraction spikes. SED diagram also shows rather star-like figure with small error bars. However, this object peaks its brightness in K-band (2.16 µm). SIMBAD decides to stay silent when it comes to this object.
    What is this thing?

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  • Pini2013 by Pini2013 translator, moderator in response to artman40's comment.

    See here:
    NED shows a galaxy

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  • Artman40 by Artman40

    Interesting. What kind of a galaxy it might be?

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  • TED91 by TED91 moderator

    I think that NED is wrong in this case. Object seems more like a star than like a galaxy. At least to me.

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  • Pini2013 by Pini2013 translator, moderator in response to TED91's comment.

    Yes the image and SED look like a star, but I can't get more info

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  • Artman40 by Artman40

    Guess it's time to wait for someone who knows more about this. I think if this had been a brown dwarfs of that apparent magnitude, it would have been already discovered.

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  • abans by abans scientist, moderator

    Well I am probably not the right scientist to answer these queries (as I am a theoretical astronomer), but this object could be a YSO disk with a huge NIR excess, possible a Herbig Ae. That said, this also looks to me like it could pass as an agn... which often give the same spectral signatures. C'est la vie! An interesting find nonetheless!

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