NGC 677
| NGC 677 | |
|---|---|
 SDSS image of NGC 677 | |
| Observation data (J2000 epoch) | |
| Constellation | Aries |
| Right ascension | 01h 49m 14.050s[1] |
| Declination | +13° 03′ 19.28″[1] |
| Redshift | 0.01693[2] |
| Heliocentric radial velocity | 5033 ± 3 km/s[2] |
| Distance | 221.6 Mly (67.95 Mpc)[3] |
| Apparent magnitude (V) | 12.27[4] |
| Apparent magnitude (B) | 13.26[4] |
| Characteristics | |
| Type | E[4] |
| Apparent size (V) | 2.0′ × 2.0′[5] |
| Other designations | |
| UGC 1275, MCG +02-05-042, PGC 6673[2] | |
NGC 677 is an elliptical galaxy located in the constellation Aries. It was discovered on September 25, 1886, by the astronomer Lewis A. Swift.[5] It is located about 200 million light-years (70 megaparsecs) from Earth[3] at the center of a rich galaxy cluster.[6] It has a LINER nucleus.[6]
References
[edit]- ^ a b Skrutskie, Michael F.; Cutri, Roc M.; Stiening, Rae; Weinberg, Martin D.; Schneider, Stephen E.; Carpenter, John M.; Beichman, Charles A.; Capps, Richard W.; Chester, Thomas; Elias, Jonathan H.; Huchra, John P.; Liebert, James W.; Lonsdale, Carol J.; Monet, David G.; Price, Stephan; Seitzer, Patrick; Jarrett, Thomas H.; Kirkpatrick, J. Davy; Gizis, John E.; Howard, Elizabeth V.; Evans, Tracey E.; Fowler, John W.; Fullmer, Linda; Hurt, Robert L.; Light, Robert M.; Kopan, Eugene L.; Marsh, Kenneth A.; McCallon, Howard L.; Tam, Robert; Van Dyk, Schuyler D.; Wheelock, Sherry L. (1 February 2006). "The Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS)". The Astronomical Journal. 131 (2): 1163–1183. Bibcode:2006AJ....131.1163S. doi:10.1086/498708. ISSN 0004-6256. S2CID 18913331.
- ^ a b c "NGC 677". SIMBAD. Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg. Retrieved 2021-06-05.
- ^ a b Crook, Aidan C.; Huchra, John P.; Martimbeau, Nathalie; Masters, Karen L.; Jarrett, Tom; Macri, Lucas M. (2007). "Groups of Galaxies in the Two Micron All Sky Redshift Survey". The Astrophysical Journal. 655 (2): 790–813. arXiv:astro-ph/0610732. Bibcode:2007ApJ...655..790C. doi:10.1086/510201. S2CID 11672751.
- ^ a b c "Search specification: NGC 677". HyperLeda. Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1. Retrieved 2021-06-05.
- ^ a b Seligman, Courtney. "New General Catalogue objects: NGC 650 - 699". cseligman.com. Retrieved 2021-06-05.
- ^ a b Kolokythas, Konstantinos; o'Sullivan, Ewan; Raychaudhury, Somak; Giacintucci, Simona; Gitti, Myriam; Babul, Arif (2018). "The Complete Local Volume Groups Sample - II. A study of the Central Radio Galaxies in the High–Richness Sub-sample". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. arXiv:1807.11095. doi:10.1093/mnras/sty2030.
See also
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