mercredi 30 août 2017

Can the ISM in a galaxy refract radio waves from 'behind'?

Specifically, ~2 GHz radio emission from a galaxy at redshift 0.446 (SDSS J233645.19+054428.4) passing through and around a galaxy at ~0.18 (so its frequency 'there' was ~1.65 GHz; SDSS J233645.69+054500.6) and detected here on Earth at 1.4 GHz.

I vaguely remember that the key parameter is the electron density, which would be an average here, over many kpc, and the frequency; however, I do not remember the details (and haven't tried to look them up).

Source: the Radio Galaxy Zoo Talk thread, "ARG0003f4o: lobe appears split by foreground galaxy?"; check it out for images.


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