NGC 701

NGC 701
NGC 701 imaged by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey
Observation data (J2000 epoch)
Constellation	Cetus
Right ascension	01h 51m 03.848s [1]
Declination	−09° 42′ 09.32″ [1]
Redshift	0.00611±0.00002 [2]
Heliocentric radial velocity	1831.13±5.10 [2]
Distance	85.6  Mly (26.25  Mpc) [3]
Group or cluster	NGC 681 Group [4]
Characteristics
Type	SBcd [3]
Other designations
AGC 410368, PGC 6826 [5]

NGC 701 is a spiral galaxy with a high star formation rate in the constellation Cetus. It is estimated to be 86 million light years from the Milky Way and has a diameter of approximately 65,000 light years. The object was discovered on January 10, 1785 by the German-British astronomer William Herschel. ^{[6] [7] [8]}

References

1. 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. Koribalski, B. S.; et al. (July 2004). "The 1000 Brightest HIPASS Galaxies: H I Properties". The Astronomical Journal. 128 (1): 16–46. arXiv: astro-ph/0404436 . Bibcode:2004AJ....128...16K. doi:10.1086/421744. S2CID   16229767.
3. Ann, H. B.; et al. (2015). "A Catalog of Visually Classified Galaxies in the Local (z ∼ 0.01) Universe". The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series. 217 (2): 27–49. arXiv: 1502.03545 . Bibcode:2015ApJS..217...27A. doi:10.1088/0067-0049/217/2/27. S2CID   119253507.
4. Tully, R. Brent; et al. (2013). "Cosmicflows-2: The Data". The Astronomical Journal. 146 (4): 86. arXiv: 1307.7213 . Bibcode:2013AJ....146...86T. doi:10.1088/0004-6256/146/4/86. S2CID   118494842.
5. "NGC 701". SIMBAD . Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg . Retrieved 2020-01-11.
6. Ford, Dominic. "The galaxy NGC 701 - In-The-Sky.org". in-the-sky.org. Retrieved 2019-12-17.
7. "Your NED Search Results". ned.ipac.caltech.edu. Retrieved 2019-12-17.
8. "Revised NGC Data for NGC 701". spider.seds.org. Retrieved 2019-12-17.

External links

• Media related to NGC 701 at Wikimedia Commons