Mrk 590

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Galaxy
Mrk 590
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SDSS recording
SDSS recording
AladinLite
Constellation whale
Position
equinoxJ2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0
Right ascension 02 h 14 m 33.5 s
declination -00 ° 46 ′ 00 ″
Appearance
Morphological type SA (s) a: / Sy1.2  
Brightness  (visual) 13.0 likes
Brightness  (B-band) 13.9 likes
Angular expansion 1.1 ′ × 1.0 ′
Position angle 69 °
Surface brightness 13.0 mag / arcmin²
Physical data
Redshift 0.026385 ± 0.000040  
Radial velocity 7910 ± 12 km / s  
Stroke distance
v rad  / H 0
(355 ± 25)  x  10 6  ly
(108.7 ± 7.6)  Mpc 
history
discovery William Herschel
Discovery date January 6, 1785
Catalog names
NGC  863 • NGC 866 • NGC 885 • UGC  1727 • PGC  8586 • CGCG  387-059 • MCG  + 00-06-056 • IRAS  02120-0059 • KUG  0212-009 • 2MASX  J02143357-0046002 • Mrk  590 • GC  509 • H  III 260 • h  205 •

Mrk 590 ( Markarian 590 or also known as NGC 863 ) is a spiral galaxy with an active galaxy core in the constellation Whale . It is around 350 million light years away and is classified as a Seyfert 1 galaxy .

The object was discovered by William Herschel on January 6, 1785 . The entries NGC 866 and NGC 885 in the New General Catalog also refer to this galaxy.

swell

  • Koay et al. (2016): ALMA probes the molecular gas reservoirs in the changing-look Seyfert galaxy Mrk 590 ; Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 455 (3), pp. 2745-2764

Individual evidence

  1. a b c d e NASA / IPAC EXTRAGALACTIC DATABASE
  2. a b c d NGC 863
  3. Anjali Gupta, Smita Mathur, Yair Krongold: Detection of high velocity outflows in Seyfert 1 galaxy Mrk 590 . In: The Astrophysical Journey . tape 798 , no. 1 , December 9, 2014, doi : 10.1088 / 0004-637X / 798/1/4 , arxiv : 1406.5968 .
  4. Seligman