UGC 3730

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Galaxy
Arp 141 / UGC 3730
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AladinLite
Constellation giraffe
Position
equinoxJ2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0
Right ascension 07 h 14 m 20.4 s
declination + 73 ° 28 ′ 37 ″
Appearance
Morphological type DBL SYS  
Brightness  (visual) 13.2 mag
Angular expansion 2.8 ′ × 1.5 ′
Physical data
Affiliation LGG 141  
Redshift 0.009036 ± 0.000037  
Radial velocity (2709 ± 11) km / s  
Stroke distance
v rad  / H 0
(127 ± 9)  ·  10 6  ly
(38.8 ± 2.7)  Mpc 
history
Catalog names
UGC  3730 • PGC  20460 • CGCG  330-033 • MCG  + 12-07-035 • Arp  141 • VV  123 •

Arp 141 / UGC 3730 is an interacting pair of galaxies in the constellation Camelopardalis , which is approximately 127 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 elliptical galaxies with emanating material (Arp catalog) .

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