NGC 3718

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NGC 3718
NGC 3718 with NGC 3729.jpg
NGC 3718 with its companion, NGC 3729
Observation data (J2000.0 epoch)
Constellation Ursa Major
Right ascension 11h 32m 34.940s [1]
Declination +53° 04′ 04.18″ [1]
Redshift 0.003306 [2]
Distance 47.84 ± 8.54  Mly (14.667 ± 2.618  Mpc) [3]
Apparent magnitude  (V)10.61 [2]
Characteristics
Type SB(s)a pec [3]
Apparent size  (V)2.940′ × 2.352′ [1]
Other designations
Arp  214, UGC  6524, MCG+09-19-114, PGC  35616 [2]

NGC 3718, also called Arp 214, is a galaxy located approximately 52 million light years from Earth in the constellation Ursa Major. Near NGC 3718 is the galaxy NGC 3729, a peculiar barred spiral galaxy. [4] [2] [5] It is either a lenticular or spiral galaxy. [6]

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NGC 3718 exhibits a warped, S-shape similar to NGC 6872, possibly a result of gravitational interaction with NGC 3729, another spiral galaxy located 150,000 light-years away. The Hickson Compact Group 56 can be seen south of one of NGC 3718's spiral arms. HCG 56 is 8 times more far then NGC 3718 or NGC 3729 [7]

NGC 3718 is a member of the Ursa Major Cluster. [8]

Hickson Compact Group

South of NGC 3718 the Hickson Compact Group #56 is located. HCG 56 is a compact group of galaxies of which 4 members are interacting with each other. This group is about 120 Mpc distant to our galaxy, [9] which is about 8 times more distant than NGC 3718.

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 3 4 "NGC 3718". SIMBAD . Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg . Retrieved 8 December 2017.
  3. 1 2 "NED results for object NGC 3718". National Aeronautics and Space Administration / Infrared Processing and Analysis Center . Retrieved 8 December 2017.
  4. ↑ Nemiroff, R.; Bonnell, J., eds. (31 August 2006). "Extra Galaxies". Astronomy Picture of the Day . NASA.
  5. ↑ "Best of AOP: NGC 3718". noao.edu. Archived from the original on 2015-05-24. Retrieved 2015-01-26.
  6. ↑ "NGC 3718, Spiral Galaxy". kopernik.org.
  7. ↑ "APOD: 2013 August 3 - Twisting with NGC 3718".
  8. ↑ Tully, R. Brent; Verheijen, Marc A. W.; Pierce, Michael J.; Huang, Jia-Sheng; Wainscoat, Richard J. (December 1996). "The Ursa Major Cluster of Galaxies.I.Cluster Definition and Photometric Data". The Astronomical Journal. 112: 2471. arXiv: astro-ph/9608124 . Bibcode:1996AJ....112.2471T. doi:10.1086/118196. ISSN   0004-6256. S2CID   7875515.
  9. ↑ "By Name | NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database". ned.ipac.caltech.edu. Retrieved 2023-08-06.


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