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NGC 3073

NGC 3073 is a dwarf lenticular galaxy in the constellation Ursa Major.[5][6][7] It is at a distance of about 65 million light-years (20 megaparsecs) from Earth.[3] NGC 3073 was discovered by German-British astronomer William Herschel on 1 April 1790. [8]

NGC 3073
NGC 3073 imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope
Observation data (J2000 epoch)
ConstellationUrsa Major
Right ascension10h 00m 52.042s[1]
Declination+55° 37′ 08.17″[1]
Redshift0.003933[2]
Heliocentric radial velocity1177 km/s[2]
Distance65 Mly (20 Mpc)[3]
Group or clusterNGC 3079 Group
Apparent magnitude (V)13.40[3]
Apparent magnitude (B)14.07[3]
Characteristics
TypeSAB0−[3]
Size~40,300 ly (12.36 kpc) (estimated)[4]
Apparent size (V)1.2′ × 1.1′[4]
Other designations
HOLM 156B, UGC 5374, MCG +09-17-007, Mrk 131, PGC 28974, CGCG 265-054[2][4]

NGC 3073 belongs to the NGC 3079 Group (also known as LGG 188), which contains six galaxies.[9] The other galaxies in the group are NGC 3079, UGC 5421, UGC 5479, UGC 5459, and UGC 5460.[10] The galaxies NGC 3073 and NGC 3079 are also listed together as Holm 156 in Erik Holmberg's A Study of Double and Multiple Galaxies Together with Inquiries into some General Metagalactic Problems, published in 1937.[11]

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  1. ^ a b Skrutskie, Michael F.; Cutri, Roc M.; Stiening, Rae; Weinberg, Martin D.; Schneider, Stephen E.; Carpenter, John M.; Beichman, Charles A.; Capps, Richard W.; Chester, Thomas; Elias, Jonathan H.; Huchra, John P.; Liebert, James W.; Lonsdale, Carol J.; Monet, David G.; Price, Stephan; Seitzer, Patrick; Jarrett, Thomas H.; Kirkpatrick, J. Davy; Gizis, John E.; Howard, Elizabeth V.; Evans, Tracey E.; Fowler, John W.; Fullmer, Linda; Hurt, Robert L.; Light, Robert M.; Kopan, Eugene L.; Marsh, Kenneth A.; McCallon, Howard L.; Tam, Robert; Van Dyk, Schuyler D.; Wheelock, Sherry L. (1 February 2006). "The Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS)". The Astronomical Journal. 131 (2): 1163–1183. Bibcode:2006AJ....131.1163S. doi:10.1086/498708. ISSN 0004-6256. S2CID 18913331.
  2. ^ a b c "NGC 3073". SIMBAD. Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg. Retrieved 2020-09-13.
  3. ^ a b c d e Gil de Paz, Armando; et al. (December 2007). "The GALEX Ultraviolet Atlas of Nearby Galaxies". The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series. 173 (2): 185–255. arXiv:astro-ph/0606440. Bibcode:2007ApJS..173..185G. doi:10.1086/516636. S2CID 119085482.
  4. ^ a b c "Results for object NGC 1285". NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database. NASA and Caltech. Retrieved 18 November 2024.
  5. ^ "SIMBAD". simbad.u-strasbg.fr. France: University of Strasbourg. Retrieved 2020-09-10.
  6. ^ "A Fundamental Relation Between Supermassive Black Holes and Their Host Galaxies" (PDF). CERN (PDF). Astrophysical Journal Letters.
  7. ^ Irwin, J. A.; Seaquist, E. R. (1991). "INIS Repository Search - Single Result". International Nuclear Information System. The Astrophysical Journal: 111–130. Retrieved 2020-09-10.
  8. ^ Seligman, Courtney. "New General Catalogue Objects: NGC 3073". Celestial Atlas. Retrieved 18 November 2024.
  9. ^ Shafi, N.; Oosterloo, T. A.; Morganti, R.; Colafrancesco, S.; Booth, R. (2015-12-01). "The "shook up" galaxy NGC 3079: the complex interplay between HI, activity and environment". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 454 (2): 1404–1415. arXiv:1509.00350. Bibcode:2015MNRAS.454.1404S. doi:10.1093/mnras/stv2034. S2CID 55595738.
  10. ^ Garcia, A. M. (1993). "General study of group membership. II. Determination of nearby groups". Astronomy and Astrophysics Supplement Series. 100: 47. Bibcode:1993A&AS..100...47G.
  11. ^ Holmberg, Erik (1937). "A Study of Double and Multiple Galaxies Together with Inquiries into some General Metagalactic Problems". Annals of the Observatory of Lund. 6: 1. Bibcode:1937AnLun...6....1H.
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