NGC 3672

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NGC 3672
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NGC 3672 imaged by the Schulman 0.8m Telescope at Mount Lemmon Observatory
Observation data (J2000 epoch)
Constellation Crater
Right ascension 11h 25m 02.4755s [1]
Declination −09° 47′ 42.905″ [1]
Redshift 0.006241 ± 0.000002 [1]
Heliocentric radial velocity 1,871 ± 1 km/s [1]
Distance 80.4 ± 15.3 Mly (24.6 ± 4.7 Mpc) [1]
Group or cluster NGC 3672 Group
Apparent magnitude  (V)11.4 [2]
Characteristics
Type SA(s)c [1]
Size~100,000  ly (30.6  kpc) (estimated) [1]
Apparent size  (V)4.2′ × 1.9′ [1]
Other designations
IRAS 11225-0931, UGCA 235, MCG -02-29-028, PGC 35088 [1]

NGC 3672 is an unbarred spiral galaxy in the constellation Crater. The galaxy lies about 80 million light years away from Earth, which means, given its apparent dimensions, that NGC 3672 is approximately 100,000 light years across. [1] It was discovered by William Herschel on March 4, 1786. [3]

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Characteristics

The galaxy has a small, bright nucleus. Its mass is estimated to be about 200 million solar masses and its radius 350 parsecs (1,100 ly). Spectral analysis of the nuclear region of the galaxy revealed the presence of large velocity gradients along the minor axis of the outer disk. This has been interpreted as a result of the presence of excited nuclear gas rotating at a large angle with respect to the rest of the galaxy or gas clouds collapsing towards the centre. [4] That was the first time such nuclear gas kinematics were observed in a spiral galaxy. [5] Four well defined arms with many knots emerge from the centre of the galaxy in a grand design pattern. [6] [7] The star formation rate of the galaxy is estimated to be about 3.5 M☉ per year. [8]

Supernovae

Two supernovae have been observed in NGC 3672:

Nearby galaxies

NGC 3672 is the foremost member of the NGC 3672 Group, also known as LGG 235. [14] Other members of the group include NGC 3636, NGC 3637, [15] and IC 688. [14] IC 688 lies about 20 arcminutes away from NGC 3672. [7] The galaxy group lies in the same galaxy cloud with NGC 3730 and NGC 3779. [14]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 "Results for object NGC 3672". NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database. NASA and Caltech . Retrieved 24 February 2025.
  2. ↑ "Revised NGC Data for NGC 3672". spider.seds.org. Retrieved 30 March 2024.
  3. ↑ Seligman, Courtney. "NGC 3672 (= PGC 35088)". Celestial Atlas. Retrieved 19 November 2018.
  4. ↑ Rubin, V. C.; Thonnard, N.; Ford, W. K., Jr. (October 1977). "Extended rotation curves of high-luminosity spiral galaxies. I - The angle between the rotation axis of the nucleus and the outer disk of NGC 3672". The Astrophysical Journal. 217: L1. Bibcode:1977ApJ...217L...1R. doi:10.1086/182526.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  5. ↑ Anantharamaiah, K. R.; Goss, W. M. (20 July 1996). "Orthogonal Rotating Gaseous Disks near the Nucleus of NGC 253". The Astrophysical Journal. 466 (1): L13 –L16. Bibcode:1996ApJ...466L..13A. doi:10.1086/310157.
  6. ↑ Sandage, A., Bedke, J. (1994), The Carnegie Atlas of Galaxies. Volume I, Carnegie Institution of Washington
  7. 1 2 de Vaucouleurs, Gerard Henri; de Vaucouleurs, Antoinette; Shapley, Harlow (1964). Reference catalogue of bright galaxies. Austin: University of Texas Press. Bibcode:1964rcbg.book.....D.
  8. ↑ Parkash, Vaishali; Brown, Michael J. I.; Jarrett, T. H.; Bonne, Nicolas J. (1 September 2018). "Relationships between Hi Gas Mass, Stellar Mass, and the Star Formation Rate of HICAT+WISE (H i-WISE) Galaxies". The Astrophysical Journal. 864 (1): 40. arXiv: 1807.06246 . Bibcode:2018ApJ...864...40P. doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/aad3b9 .
  9. ↑ Green, Daniel (22 April 2007). "SUPERNOVA 2007bm IN NGC 3672". Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams. 936.
  10. ↑ Navasardyan, H.; Benetti, S.; Harutyunyan, A.; Turatto, M. (1 April 2007). "Supernova 2007bm in NGC 3672". Central Bureau Electronic Telegrams (939): 1.
  11. ↑ "Bright Supernovae - 2007". www.rochesterastronomy.org. Retrieved 25 March 2025.
  12. ↑ Nakano, S.; Martin, R. (1 November 2008). "Supernova 2008gz in NGC 3672". Central Bureau Electronic Telegrams (1566): 1. Bibcode:2008CBET.1566....1N.
  13. ↑ Roy, Rupak; Kumar, Brijesh; Moskvitin, Alexander S.; Benetti, Stefano; Fatkhullin, Timur A.; Kumar, Brajesh; Misra, Kuntal; Bufano, Filomena; Martin, Ralph; Sokolov, Vladimir V.; Pandey, S. B.; Chandola, H. C.; Sagar, Ram (11 June 2011). "SN 2008gz - most likely a normal Type IIP event: Supernova 2008gz". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 414 (1): 167–183. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2011.18363.x .
  14. 1 2 3 Makarov, Dmitry; Karachentsev, Igor (21 April 2011). "Galaxy groups and clouds in the local (z~ 0.01) Universe". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 412 (4): 2498–2520. arXiv: 1011.6277 . Bibcode:2011MNRAS.412.2498M. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2010.18071.x . S2CID   119194025 . Retrieved 1 February 2025.
  15. ↑ Garcia, A. M. (1 July 1993). "General study of group membership. II. Determination of nearby groups". Astronomy and Astrophysics Supplement Series. 100: 47–90. Bibcode:1993A&AS..100...47G. ISSN   0365-0138.
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