NGC 59

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NGC 59
NGC 59 HST.jpg
Hubble image of NGC 59
Observation data (J2000 epoch)
Constellation Cetus
Right ascension 00h 15m 25.126s [1]
Declination −21° 26′ 39.68″ [1]
Distance 17.3  Mly (5.30  Mpc) [2]
Apparent magnitude  (V)12.59 [1]
Absolute magnitude  (B)13.21 [1]
Characteristics
Type S0 [3]
Other designations
MCG -04-01-026, PGC 1034 [3]

NGC 59 is a lenticular galaxy [3] in the constellation Cetus. It is a probable member of the Sculptor Group. It is approximately 17 million light-years away. [2]

NGC 59 has a stellar mass of 5x108 M☉ and it is a low-luminosity, low-metallicity galaxy. It has a young (2 to 6 billion years old) low-metallicity population at its center and an older (about 8 billion years old) overlaying population that has also a low metallicity. [4]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 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 Cook, David O.; Dale, Daniel A.; Johnson, Benjamin D.; Van Zee, Liese; Lee, Janice C.; Kennicutt, Robert C.; Calzetti, Daniela; Staudaher, Shawn M.; Engelbracht, Charles W. (2014). "The Spitzer Local Volume Legacy (LVL) global optical photometry". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 445 (1): 881. arXiv: 1408.1130 . Bibcode:2014MNRAS.445..881C. doi: 10.1093/mnras/stu1580 .
  3. 1 2 3 "NGC 59". SIMBAD . Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg . Retrieved 2020-05-14.
  4. ↑ Sansom, A. E.; Thirlwall, J. J.; Deakin, M. A.; Väisänen, P.; Kniazev, A. Y.; van Loon, J. Th. (2015-06-01). "The stellar populations in the low-luminosity, early-type galaxy NGC 59". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 450 (2): 1338–1348. arXiv: 1503.08054 . Bibcode:2015MNRAS.450.1338S. doi: 10.1093/mnras/stv690 . ISSN   0035-8711.
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