NGC 4093

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NGC 4093
SDSS NGC 4093.jpeg
SDSS image of NGC 4093.
Observation data (J2000 epoch)
Constellation Coma Berenices
Right ascension 12h 05m 51.4s [1]
Declination 20° 31′ 19″ [1]
Redshift 0.024037 [1]
Heliocentric radial velocity 7206 km/s [1]
Distance 340  Mly (103  Mpc) [1]
Group or cluster NGC 4065 Group
Apparent magnitude  (V)14.52 [1]
Characteristics
Type E? [1]
Size~116,000  ly (35.5  kpc) (estimated) [1]
Apparent size  (V)0.25 x 0.25 [1]
Other designations
PGC 038323, MCG +04-29-021 [1]

NGC 4093 is an elliptical galaxy located 340 million light-years away [2] in the constellation Coma Berenices. [3] The galaxy was discovered by astronomer Heinrich d'Arrest on May 4, 1864. [4] NGC 4093 is a member of the NGC 4065 Group [5] [6] [7] and is a radio galaxy [8] [9] [10] with a two sided jet. [10]

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A rotating disk in the galaxy was detected by K. Geréb et al. [8]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 "NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database". Results for NGC 4093. Retrieved 2019-02-13.
  2. ↑ "Your NED Search Results". ned.ipac.caltech.edu. Retrieved 2019-02-14.
  3. ↑ "Revised NGC Data for NGC 4093". spider.seds.org. Retrieved 2019-02-14.
  4. ↑ "New General Catalog Objects: NGC 4050 - 4099". cseligman.com. Retrieved 2019-02-03.
  5. ↑ Tifft, W. G.; Gregory, S. A. (1979-07-01). "Band theory applied to the Coma/A1367 supercluster". The Astrophysical Journal. 231: 23–27. Bibcode:1979ApJ...231...23T. doi:10.1086/157158. ISSN   0004-637X.
  6. ↑ Burns, Jack O.; Hanisch, Robert J.; White, Richard A.; Nelson, Eric R.; Morrisette, Kim A.; Moody, J. Ward (1987-09-01). "A VLA 20 CM survey of poor groups of galaxies". The Astronomical Journal. 94: 587–617. Bibcode:1987AJ.....94..587B. doi:10.1086/114494. ISSN   0004-6256.
  7. ↑ White, Richard A.; Bliton, Mark; Bhavsar, Suketu P.; Bornmann, Patricia; Burns, Jack O.; Ledlow, Michael J.; Loken, Christen (1999-11-01). "A Catalog of Nearby Poor Clusters of Galaxies". The Astronomical Journal. 118 (5): 2014–2037. arXiv: astro-ph/9907283 . Bibcode:1999AJ....118.2014W. doi:10.1086/301103. ISSN   0004-6256. S2CID   73667751.
  8. 1 2 Geréb, K.; Maccagni, F. M.; Morganti, R.; Oosterloo, T. A. (March 2015). "The HI absorption "Zoo"". Astronomy & Astrophysics. 575: A44. arXiv: 1411.0361 . Bibcode:2015A&A...575A..44G. doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201424655. ISSN   0004-6361. S2CID   119158234.
  9. ↑ Massaro, F.; Capetti, A.; Baldi, R. D. (2018). "FR0CAT: a FIRST catalog of FR0 radio galaxies". Astronomy & Astrophysics. 609: A1. arXiv: 1709.00015 . Bibcode:2018A&A...609A...1B. doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201731333. S2CID   118910652.
  10. 1 2 An, T.; Cheng, X.-P. (2018-07-06). "Parsec-scale radio structure of 14 Fanaroff-Riley type 0 radio galaxies". The Astrophysical Journal. 863 (2): 155. arXiv: 1807.02505 . Bibcode:2018ApJ...863..155C. doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/aad22c . S2CID   119494740.
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