NGC 4093

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]

NGC 4093
SDSS image of NGC 4093.
Observation data (J2000 epoch)
ConstellationComa Berenices
Right ascension 12h 05m 51.4s[1]
Declination20° 31 19[1]
Redshift0.024037[1]
Helio radial velocity7206 km/s[1]
Distance340 Mly (103 Mpc)[1]
Group or clusterNGC 4065 Group
Apparent magnitude (V)14.52[1]
Characteristics
TypeE?[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]

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

See also

References

  1. "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.
  8. 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.
  9. Massaro, F.; Capetti, A.; Baldi, R. D. (2018). "FR0CAT: a FIRST catalog of FR0 radio galaxies". Astronomy & Astrophysics. 609: A1. arXiv:1709.00015v1. Bibcode:2018A&A...609A...1B. doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201731333.
  10. 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:1807.02505v1. Bibcode:2018ApJ...863..155C. doi:10.3847/1538-4357/aad22c.
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