UGC 4836

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Galaxy
Arp 257 / UGC 4836
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SDSS recording
SDSS recording
AladinLite
Constellation Water snake
Position
equinoxJ2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0
Right ascension 08 h 51 m 38.0 s
declination -02 ° 21 ′ 37 ″
Appearance
Morphological type DBL SYS  
Brightness  (visual) 14.5 mag
Angular expansion 2 ′ × 1 ′
Physical data
Redshift 0.011081 ± 0.000020  
Radial velocity (3322 ± 6) km / s  
Stroke distance
v rad  / H 0
(141 ± 10)  ·  10 6  ly
(43.3 ± 3.0)  Mpc 
history
Catalog names
UGC  4836 • PGC  24889/24890 • CGCG  005-018 • MCG  + 00-23-05 / 06 • Arp  257 • VV  41 • KPG 177

Arp 257 = UGC 4836 is an interacting pair of galaxies in the constellation Water Snake. It is estimated to be 141 million light years from the Milky Way . Halton Arp organized his catalog of unusual galaxies into groups according to purely morphological criteria. This galaxy belongs to the class of galaxies with irregular clusters .

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