NGC 4102

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NGC 4102
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NGC 4102 image taken by the Hubble Space Telescope
Observation data (J2000 epoch)
Constellation Ursa Major [1]
Right ascension 12h 06m 23.115s [2]
Declination +52° 42′ 39.42″ [2]
Redshift 0.002792 [3]
Heliocentric radial velocity 837 km/s [4]
Distance 59.6  Mly (18.3  Mpc) [5]
Group or cluster Ursa Major group [6]
Apparent magnitude  (V)11.2 [7]
Apparent magnitude  (B)11.8 [8]
Characteristics
Type SAB(s)b, [9] [10] SABab [3]
Apparent size  (V)2.9′ × 1.8′ [7]
Notable features LINER [9]
Other designations
IRAS 12038+5259, 2MASX J12062311+5242394, WISE J120623.07+524239.8, UGC 7096, LEDA 38392, MCG MCG+09-20-094, PGC 38392, SDSS J120623.00+524240.1 [8]

NGC 4102 is an intermediate [9] barred spiral galaxy located in the northern constellation of Ursa Major. It is visible in a small telescope and has an apparent visual magnitude of 11.2. [7] The galaxy was discovered April 12, 1789 by William Herschel. J. L. E. Dreyer described it as "bright, pretty small, round, brighter middle and bright nucleus". [11] This galaxy is located at a distance of 60 [5]  million light years and is receding with a heliocentric radial velocity of 837 km/s. [4] It is a member of the Ursa Major group of galaxies. [6]

The morphological class of NGC 4102 is SABab [3] or SAB(s)b?, [10] which is a spiral galaxy with a bar-like feature around the core (SAB), no inner ring structure (s), and moderately tightly-wound spiral arms ('ab' or 'b'). However, the bar in this galaxy is considered particularly small for galaxies of this class. [10] The galactic plane is inclined at an angle of 56°±2° to the line of sight from the Earth. [12] NGC 4102 has a region of intense star formation in the nuclear region, known as a starburst region. [6] This volume is 1,000 ly (310 pc) in diameter containing some 3 billion solar masses. [13] An outflow of hydrogen has been detected, extending outward to the northwest as far as 6.3 kpc (21 kly) from the nucleus. [14]

The core of NHC 4102 is almost certainly an active galactic nucleus (AGN), [15] which indicates it has a supermassive black hole (SMBH) that is generating energy by accreting material. [16] It is an X-ray source with a spectrum similar to a Seyfert 2 galaxy. [15] This type of AGN is known as a Type-2 LINER, or low-ionization nuclear emission-line region. This is due to a core that is obscured by intervening dusty materials and/or the SMBH is accreting material in an inefficient manner. The bolometric luminosity of the active nucleus is ~7×1043  erg ·s−1. [16]

One supernova has been observed in NGC 4102: SN 1975E (type unknown, mag. 16.7). [17]

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">NGC 5548</span> Type I Seyfert galaxy in the constellation Boötes

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Eyes Galaxies</span> Pair of galaxies in the constellation Virgo

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">NGC 1672</span> Galaxy in the constellation Dorado

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">NGC 4041</span> Spiral galaxy in the constellation Ursa Major

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">NGC 4293</span> Galaxy in the constellation Coma Berenices

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">NGC 4424</span> Spiral galaxy in the constellation Virgo

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">NGC 3675</span> Galaxy in the constellation Ursa Major

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">NGC 3367</span> Spiral galaxy in the constellation Leo

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">NGC 6951</span> Galaxy in the constellation Cepheus

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">IC 1459</span> Elliptical galaxy in the constellation of Grus

IC 1459 is an elliptical galaxy located in the constellation Grus. It is located at a distance of circa 85 million light-years from Earth, which, given its apparent dimensions, means that IC 1459 is about 130,000 light-years across. It was discovered by Edward Emerson Barnard in 1892.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">NGC 5728</span> Spiral galaxy in the constellation Libra

NGC 5728 is an active barred spiral galaxy located 146 million light years away in the southern constellation of Libra. It was discovered on May 7, 1787 by William Herschel. The designation comes from the New General Catalogue of J. L. E. Dreyer, published in 1888. It has an apparent visual magnitude of 13.40 and spans an angle of 3.4 arcminutes. The galaxy shows a red shift of 0.00935 and has a heliocentric radial velocity of 2,803 km/s. It has an estimated mass of 72 billion times the mass of the Sun and stretches around 30 kpc across.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">NGC 2617</span> Galaxy in the constellation Hydra

NGC 2617 is a Seyfert galaxy in the equatorial constellation of Hydra. It was discovered on February 12, 1885, by French astronomer Édouard Stephan. In 1888, Danish astronomer J. L. E. Dreyer described it as "extremely faint, very small, 2 very faint stars involved". It is located at an estimated distance of 202 million light years. In the infrared, the galaxy has an angular size of 0.693 by 0.652 arcminutes.

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