IC 4271

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Galaxy
IC 4271
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IC 4271 and PGC 3096774 (below)
IC 4271 and PGC 3096774 (below)
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Constellation Hunting dogs
Position
equinoxJ2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0
Right ascension 13 h 29 m 21.4 s
declination + 37 ° 24 ′ 42 ″
Appearance
Morphological type S + C  
Brightness  (visual) 15 likes
Brightness  (B-band) 15.8 mag
Angular expansion 0.8 ′ × 0.5 ′
Surface brightness 13.3 mag / arcmin²
Physical data
Redshift 0.057000  
Radial velocity 17088 km / s  
Stroke distance
v rad  / H 0
(766 ± 53)  ·  10 6  ly
(234.9 ± 16.4)  Mpc 
history
discovery Stéphane Javelle
Discovery date July 10, 1896
Catalog names
IC  4271 • PGC  47334 • CGCG  190-012 • MCG  + 06-30-015 • Arp  40 • VV  355 •

IC 4271 = Arp 40 is an interacting pair of galaxies in the constellation Hounds, which is about 766 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 spiral galaxies with a companion of low surface brightness on one arm (Arp catalog) . NGC 1347 was discovered on July 10, 1896 by the astronomer Stéphane Javelle . The interacting component is the galaxy PGC 3096774 .

Web links

Commons : IC 4271  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

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
  2. a b c d e SEDS : IC 4271
  3. Seligman