Astronomy:Abell 3266

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Abell 3266
Abell 3266 seen by DESI Legacy Surveys DR11
Observation data (Epoch J2000)
Constellation(s)Reticulum
Right ascension 04h 31m 12s[1]
Declination−61° 28′ 00″[1]
Richness class2[2]
Bautz–Morgan classificationI-II[2]
Velocity dispersion3.136 km/s
Redshift0.05890 (17 658 km/s)[3]
Distance
(co-moving)		248 Mpc (809 Mly) h−10.705 [3]
X-ray flux3.5×10−11 erg s−1 cm−2 (0.5–2 keV) [3]
See also: Galaxy group, Galaxy cluster, List of galaxy groups and clusters

Abell 3266 is a galaxy cluster in the southern sky that is part of the Horologium-Reticulum Supercluster. It is one of the largest in the southern sky, after Shapley Supercluster which has 28 galaxy clusters, and Sculptor Superclusters which has 25 galaxy clusters. The Horologium-Reticulum Supercluster has one of the largest mass concentrations in the nearby universe and has a total of 35 galaxy clusters.[4]

The Department of Physics at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County discovered that a large mass of gas is hurtling through the cluster at a speed of 750 km/s (466 miles/second). The mass is billions of solar masses, approximately 3 million light-years in diameter, and is the largest of its kind discovered as of June 2006.[5][6]

The Central Dominant galaxy of Abell 3266 (WISEA J043113.14-612712.3) is a large, bright, moderately elongated elliptical galaxy, with an effective radius of 98.44 kpc (approximately 321,000 light years) and an absolute magnitude of M_V = -24.51.[7] Abell 3266 has at least 100++ confirmed members and has been reference in over 1400 scientific papers.[8]

See also

  • Abell 3266
    Abell 3266
  • Abell 3266 seen by Gemini Multi-Object Spectrograph (GMOS)
    Abell 3266 seen by Gemini Multi-Object Spectrograph (GMOS)
  • Abell 3266 seen by the DESI Legacy Surveys DR11
    Abell 3266 seen by the DESI Legacy Surveys DR11
  • Abell 3266 seen by ROSAT
    Abell 3266 seen by ROSAT

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "HEASARC Browse". Result for Abell 3266. http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/db-perl/W3Browse/w3table.pl?tablehead=name%3Dabell. 
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Abell, George O.; Corwin, Harold G. Jr.; Olowin, Ronald P. (May 1989). "A catalog of rich clusters of galaxies" (PDF). Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series 70 (May 1989): 1–138. doi:10.1086/191333. ISSN 0067-0049. Bibcode: 1989ApJS...70....1A. http://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-iarticle_query?bibcode=1989ApJS...70....1A&page_ind=0&epage_ind=137&type=PRINTER&data_type=PDF_HIGH&email=&emailsize=500&emailsplit=YES&send=GET&verified=YES. Retrieved March 13, 2012. 
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 "NED results for object ABELL 3266". NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database (NED). http://ned.ipac.caltech.edu/cgi-bin/nph-objsearch?objname=Abell+3266&extend=no. 
  4. ↑ Einasto, M.; Einasto, J.; Tago, E.; Müller, V.; Andernach, H. (2001). "Optical and X-Ray Clusters as Tracers of the Supercluster-Void Network. I. Superclusters of Abell and X-Ray Clusters". The Astronomical Journal 122 (5): 2222–2242. doi:10.1086/323707. Bibcode: 2001AJ....122.2222E. 
  5. ↑ XMM-Newton Spots Greatest Ball Of Fire
  6. ↑ XMM-Newton spots the greatest of great balls of fire
  7. ↑ Fasano, G.; Bettoni, D.; Ascaso, B.; Tormen, G.; Poggianti, B. M.; Valentinuzzi, T.; D'Onofrio, M.; Fritz, J. et al. (2010). "The shapes of BCGs and normal ellipticals in nearby clusters". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 404 (3): 1490–1504. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2966.2010.16361.x. Bibcode: 2010MNRAS.404.1490F. 
  8. ↑ "APMBGC 118-030+078". Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg. https://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/simbad/sim-id?Ident=APMBGC+118-030%2B078. 

Coordinates: Sky map 04h 31m 12s, −61° 28′ 00″




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