PGC 29820

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PGC 29820
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PGC 29820 imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope
Observation data (J2000 epoch)
Constellation Sextans
Right ascension 10h 13m 46.82s
Declination -00d 54m 51.0s
Redshift 0.04244
Heliocentric radial velocity 12,723 km/s
Distance 600 Mly (183.96 Mpc)
Group or cluster Abell 957
Apparent magnitude  (V)0.11
Apparent magnitude  (B)0.15
Characteristics
Type Sb(f), Seyfert 2
Size120,000 ly
Other designations
LEDA 29820, CGCG 008-077, 2dFGRS N288Z210, AGC 500048, NVSS J101346-005449, JO204

PGC 29820 ( known as JO204) is a spiral galaxy located 600 million light-years away from the Solar System in the Sextans constellation. [1] The galaxy is about 120,000 light-years in diameter and is a member of Abell 957, a low-mass galaxy cluster. [2] The first known reference to this galaxy is from volume I of the Catalogue of Galaxies and of Clusters of Galaxies compiled by Fritz Zwicky in 1961, where it was listed as CGCG 008-077. [3]

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Characteristics

PGC 29820 is classified a massive galaxy with a stellar mass of M* = 4 x1010 M. [4] It contains an active galactic nucleus with double-peaked narrow lines. [5] [6] Moreover, it is also a Seyfert 2 galaxy. [7]

PGC 29820 is classified a jellyfish galaxy. [8] [9] [10] According to Gullieuszik, the galaxy is currently in a first phrase of infalling into the cluster where it is subjected to ram pressure by the intracluster medium. [2]

Because dense gas is compressed, it eventually collapses to form new stars in both the galaxy's tail and its disk. [4] According to researchers, the stars inside the tail, has a star formation rate of 0.22 M○ yr1 [11] which began during the last 500 million years. [2]

In additional, PGC 29820 shows a large presence of molecular gas making up H2 mass of 8.3 x 109 M○. Looking at ratio of total molecular hydrogen mass and stellar mass, it is estimated as 0.42. [12]

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