LEDA 2108986

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LEDA 2108986
Observation data (J2000 epoch)
Constellation Boötes
Right ascension 15h 03m 15.557s [1]
Declination +37° 45′ 57.96″ [1]
Distance 45.7  Mpc (149 million  ly) h−1
0.678
Characteristics
Type ES, E/S0 [2]
Other designations
2MASX J15031550+3745580, SDSS J150315.54+374558.0 [1]

LEDA 2108986, [3] also known by its Case Western Reserve University designation "Case Galaxy 611" (CG 611), [4] is an extremely isolated, early-type dwarf galaxy [5] [6] [7] with an embedded spiral structure residing in what is likely an intermediate-scale disk. [8] The galaxy was discovered in 1987 by Sanduleak and Pesch, and is located at a distance of about 45.7 Mpc (149 million ly) in the Boötes Void and has no significant neighbours within 2.5 Mpc.

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The galaxy may be a counterpart to the rectangular-shaped galaxy LEDA 74886, in that they both appear to contain an intermediate-scale disk. In the case of LEDA 74886, that disk is orientated edge-on to our line of sight. The "early-type galaxy" class is commonly known to contain elliptical galaxies (E) with no substantial stellar disk (perhaps just a small nuclear disk) and lenticular galaxies (S0) with their large-scale disks that dominate the light at large radii. Bridging these two types of galaxies are the ES galaxies [9] with their intermediate-scale disks, referred to as "Ellicular" galaxies in recent works. [8]

Importance

LEDA 2108986 has accreted a gas disk which counter-rotates relative to its stellar disk. It also displays a young spiral pattern within this stellar disk. The presence of such faint disk structures and rotation within some dwarf early-type galaxies in galaxy clusters has often been heralded as evidence that they were once late-type spiral or dwarf irregular galaxies prior to experiencing a cluster-induced transformation, known as galaxy harassment. The extreme isolation of LEDA 2108986 is proof that dwarf early-type galaxies can be built by accretion events, as opposed to disk-stripping scenarios within the "galaxy harassment" model.

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References

  1. 1 2 3 "2MASX J15031550+3745580". SIMBAD . Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg . Retrieved 20 March 2018.
  2. ↑ NED, (accessed 20 March 2018)
  3. ↑ Paturel, G., et al. (2003), HYPERLEDA. I. Identification and designation of galaxies
  4. ↑ Sanduleak, N.; Pesch, Peter (1987), The case low-dispersion northern sky survey. IV - Galaxies in the Bootes void region
  5. ↑ Hernández-Toledo, H.M., et al. (2010), The UNAM-KIAS Catalog of Isolated Galaxies
  6. ↑ Fuse, C.; Marcum, P.; Fanelli, M. (2012), Extremely Isolated Early-type Galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. I. The Sample
  7. ↑ Argudo-Fernández, M., et al. (2015), Catalogues of isolated galaxies, isolated pairs, and isolated triplets in the local Universe
  8. 1 2 Graham, Alister W.; Janz, Joachim; Penny, Samantha J.; Chilingarian, Igor V.; Ciambur, Bogdan C.; Forbes, Duncan A.; Davies, Roger L. (May 8, 2017). "Implications for the origin of dwarf early-type galaxies: a detailed look at the isolated rotating dwarf early-type galaxy CG 611, with ramifications for the Fundamental Plane's SK2 kinematic scaling and the spin-ellipticity diagram". The Astrophysical Journal. 840 (2): 68. arXiv: 1705.03587 . Bibcode:2017ApJ...840...68G. doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/aa6e56 . S2CID   54018338.
  9. ↑ Liller, M.H. (1966), The Distribution of Intensity in Elliptical Galaxies of the Virgo Cluster. II
  10. ↑ Graham, Alister W.; Ciambur, Bogdan C.; Savorgnan, Giulia A.D. (2016), Disky Elliptical Galaxies and the Allegedly Over-massive Black Hole in the Compact “ES“ Galaxy NGC 1271
  11. ↑ Savorgnan, Giulia A.D. and Graham, Alister W. (2016), Explaining the reportedly overmassive black holes in early-type galaxies with intermediate-scale discs
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