2013年7月31日星期三

From X-ray to Infrared

Today, from the CANDELS blog, I get this amazing animation, which include the images from X-ray to infrared bands. It is obvious that the HST optical image has the highest quality. What's more, you can see that different emissions come from different part of the galaxies due to their different origins. It is quite interesting that the Herschel has a high detection threshold but low resolution, so the objects are blended with each other.This is the reason why Herschel cannot do deep field observations.


This animation starts with an X-ray image from the Chandra telescope,
showing two sources which probably harbor central black holes. It then
transitions to the Hubble images, where you can see that some of the
galaxies have spiral features and others don't. It then transitions to the
infrared images from the Spitzer, and finally the Herschel observatory.
You can see that the resolution of the infrared images is much poorer
than the Hubble images -- the galaxies are all blended together.
Nevertheless, you can make out that some galaxies are "bluer" than
others at infrared wavelengths. Looking at the last image, you can convince
yourself that the brightest source of far-infrared radiation in this image
(which comes primarily from heated dust) is probably the galaxy just
below the center, which is also an X-ray sources.


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