Optical Image of Binary Quasar SDSS J1254+0846 (IMAGE)

Carnegie Institution for Science

Optical Image of Binary Quasar SDSS J1254+0846

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This optical image of SDSS J1254+0846 obtained May 22, 2009, on the IMACS camera at the Magellan/Baade telescope at Las Campanas Observatory in Chile shows the two bright quasar nuclei as well as the tidal arms of the host galaxy merger. Scale bar is 10 arcseconds.

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Carnegie Institution

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