NGC 2998

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NGC 2998
NGC2998 - SDSS DR14.jpg
SDSS image of NGC 2998
Observation data (J2000 epoch)
Constellation Ursa Major
Right ascension 09h 48m 43.630s [1]
Declination +44° 04′ 52.63″ [1]
Redshift 0.01591 [2]
Heliocentric radial velocity 4732 ± 3 km/s [2]
Distance 195  Mly (59.7  Mpc) [3]
Apparent magnitude  (B)13.3 [4]
Characteristics
Type SAB(rs)c [5]
Apparent size  (V)1.080′ × 0.562′ [1]
Other designations
NGC 2998, UGC 5250, MCG +07-20-051, PGC 28196 [4]

NGC 2998 is a barred spiral galaxy located in the constellation Ursa Major. [5] It is 195 million light-years (59.7 megaparsecs) away from the Earth. [3] It is an intermediate spiral galaxy. [5] Its stellar mass is about that of the Milky Way. [6]

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NGC 2998 is a member of the eponymous NGC 2998 group, a relatively dense galaxy group which also includes NGC 3002, NGC 3005, NGC 3006, NGC 3008 and a few others. [7] [6]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 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. 1 2 Ahn, C. P.; et al. (2009). "The Ninth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: First Spectroscopic Data from the SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey". The Astrophysical Journal Supplement. 203 (2): 21. arXiv: 1207.7137 . Bibcode:2012ApJS..203...21A. doi:10.1088/0067-0049/203/2/21. S2CID   20026118.
  3. 1 2 Tully, R. Brent; Courtois, Hélène M.; Sorce, Jenny G. (2016). "Cosmicflows-3". The Astronomical Journal. 152 (2): 21. arXiv: 1605.01765 . Bibcode:2016AJ....152...50T. doi: 10.3847/0004-6256/152/2/50 . S2CID   250737862. 50.
  4. 1 2 "NGC 2998". SIMBAD . Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg . Retrieved 5 October 2018.
  5. 1 2 3 "NED results for object NGC 2998". NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database. Retrieved 5 October 2018.
  6. 1 2 Paudel, Sanjaya; Sengupta, Chandreyee; Yoon, Suk-Jin; Chhatkuli, Daya Nidhi (2020). "MCG+07-20-052: Interacting Dwarf Pair in a Group Environment". The Astronomical Journal. 159 (4): 141. arXiv: 2002.10076 . Bibcode:2020AJ....159..141P. doi: 10.3847/1538-3881/ab722f . S2CID   211258826.
  7. ↑ "NAME NGC 2998 Group". SIMBAD . Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg . Retrieved 2021-02-14.
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