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Originally Posted by parejkoj
Food for thought: is there a known galaxy with a relatively bright star (say, r<15) at its center, masquerading as an AGN? The colors should give it away, but a spectrum would be better.
My guess is not in the usual areas where galaxy surveys are done, as they are in the directions of low stellar density (e.g. SDSS is out of the plane of the Milky Way). But I'd guess there probably is one in the galactic plane, and certainly toward the galactic center. Problem there is that we can't see the galaxies for the dust.
Any have an example?
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Yeah, but I have to check a notebook in my office to get the ID (since this dates to a project largely done in the pre-web age...). Spiral galaxy, diffraction spikes, beg for colleagues to get a spectrum - and it's a G star at zero redshift. Not all that close to the galactic plane, either - it was from a jet search that started at |b|=20. I was sort of hoping for another object like the Einstein Cross 2237+030, even though two such alignments nearby would strain credibility.