UGC 4457

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Galaxy
UGC 4457 / Arp 58
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SDSS recording
SDSS recording
AladinLite
Constellation cancer
Position
equinoxJ2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0
Right ascension 08 h 31 m 57.6 s
declination + 19 ° 12 ′ 41 ″
Appearance
Morphological type SAB (rs) c pec  
Brightness  (visual) 14.2 mag
Angular expansion 1.8 ′ × 1 ′
Physical data
Redshift 0.037222 ± 0.000033  
Radial velocity (11159 ± 10) km / s  
Stroke distance
v rad  / H 0
(494 ± 35)  ·  10 6  ly
(151.6 ± 10.6)  Mpc 
history
Catalog names
UGC  4457 • PGC  23935 • CGCG  089-040 • MCG  + 03-22-017 • IRAS  08290 + 1922 • 2MASX  J08315766 + 1912411 • Arp  58 • VV  413 •

UGC 4457 = Arp 58 is a bar-spiral galaxy in the constellation Cancer , which is about 494 million light years from the Milky Way. At the end of its spiral arm, the galaxy has a smaller compact, elliptical companion galaxy ( PGC 23937 , cE0 pec?) Of high surface brightness ( Arp 58 ).

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 small companion of high surface brightness on one arm (Arp catalog) .

Web links

Commons : UGC 4457  - 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