Arp 11

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Galaxy
Arp 11 / UGC 717
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SDSS recording
SDSS recording
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Constellation fishes
Position
equinoxJ2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0
Right ascension 01 h 09 m 22.0 s
declination + 14 ° 20 ′ 32 ″
Appearance
Morphological type SBb / AGN  
Brightness  (visual) 14.4 mag
Angular expansion 1.5 ′ × 1 ′
Physical data
Redshift 0.038428 ± 0.000097  
Radial velocity (11520 ± 9) km / s  
Stroke distance
v rad  / H 0
(520 ± 37)  ·  10 6  ly
(159.3 ± 11.2)  Mpc 
history
Catalog names
UGC  717 • PGC  4116 • CGCG  436-005 • MCG  + 02-04-003 • IRAS  F01067 + 1404 • Arp  11 • VV  348b •

Arp 11 = UGC 717 is a bar-spiral galaxy of the Hubble type SBb in the constellation Pisces . It is about 520 million light years from the Milky Way . Together with UGC 719 , it presumably forms an interacting pair of galaxies . The property MCG + 02-04-04 is also visually close to UGC 717.

Halton Arp organized his catalog of unusual galaxies into groups according to purely morphological criteria. This galaxy belongs to the class of spiral galaxies with split arms .

Web links

literature

  • Jeff Kanipe and Dennis Webb: The Arp Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies - A Chronicle and Observer's Guide , Richmond 2006, ISBN 978-0-943396-76-7

Individual evidence

  1. a b c d NASA / IPAC EXTRAGALACTIC DATABASE