NGC 3486

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NGC 3486
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NGC 3486 (Hubble Space Telescope)
Observation data (J2000 epoch)
Constellation Leo Minor
Right ascension 11h 00m 23.946s [1]
Declination +28° 58′ 29.35″ [1]
Redshift +0.004113 ± 0.000003 [2]
Heliocentric radial velocity +681 [3] km/s
Distance 27.4 Mly (8.41 Mpc) [3]
Apparent magnitude  (V)10.5 [4]
Characteristics
Type SAB(r)c [5]
Apparent size  (V)7.1' × 5.3'
Other designations
UGC 6079

NGC 3486 is an intermediate barred spiral galaxy located about 27.4 [3] million light years away in the constellation of Leo Minor. It has a morphological classification of SAB(r)c, [5] which indicates it is a weakly barred spiral with an inner ring and loosely wound arms. [6] This is a borderline, low-luminosity Seyfert galaxy with an active nucleus. However, no radio or X-ray emission has been detected from the core, and it may only have a small supermassive black hole with less than a million times the mass of the Sun. [7]

References

  1. 1 2 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. ↑ Wegner, Gary; et al. (December 2001), "Redshifts for 2410 Galaxies in the Century Survey Region", The Astronomical Journal, 122 (6): 2893–2900, arXiv: astro-ph/0109101 , Bibcode:2001AJ....122.2893W, doi:10.1086/323915, S2CID   118957098.
  3. 1 2 3 Crook, Aidan C.; et al. (February 2007), "Groups of Galaxies in the Two Micron All Sky Redshift Survey", The Astrophysical Journal, 655 (2): 790–813, arXiv: astro-ph/0610732 , Bibcode:2007ApJ...655..790C, doi:10.1086/510201, S2CID   11672751.
  4. ↑ "NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database". Results for NGC 3486. Retrieved 2006-11-21.
  5. 1 2 Conselice, C. J. (November 1997), "The Symmetry, Color, and Morphology of Galaxies", Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 109: 1251–1255, arXiv: astro-ph/9710234 , Bibcode:1997PASP..109.1251C, doi:10.1086/134004, S2CID   119348520.
  6. ↑ Buta, Ronald J.; et al. (2007), Atlas of Galaxies, Cambridge University Press, pp. 13–17, ISBN   978-0521820486.
  7. ↑ Maoz, Dan (June 2007), "Low-luminosity active galactic nuclei: are they UV faint and radio loud?", Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society , 377 (4): 1696–1710, arXiv: astro-ph/0702292 , Bibcode:2007MNRAS.377.1696M, doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2007.11735.x , S2CID   17578792.
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