Astronomy:NGC 5963
| NGC 5963 | |
|---|---|
 NGC 5963 (Sloan Digital Sky Survey) | |
| Observation data (J2000 epoch) | |
| Constellation | Draco[1] |
| Right ascension | 15h 33m 27.73s[2] |
| Declination | +56° 33′ 33.9″[2] |
| Redshift | 0.00215±0.00009[3] |
| Helio radial velocity | 654 km/s[4] |
| Distance (comoving) | 0 ± 0 Mly (000 ± 00 Mpc)h−10.73 |
| Distance | 42.4 ± 9.8 Mly (13.0 ± 3.0 Mpc)[5][6] |
| Apparent magnitude (V) | 13.1[1] |
| Characteristics | |
| Type | S/Sc[7][5] or S pec[8] |
| Size | 15 kpc[5] |
| Apparent size (V) | 4.0′ × 3.0′ |
| Other designations | |
| NGC 5963, UGC 9906, PGC 55419[9] | |
NGC 5963 is a spiral galaxy in the northern constellation of Draco.[1] It was discovered on May 5, 1788 by German-British astronomer William Herschel.[10] NGC 5963 has an apparent visual magnitude of 13.1[1] and is located at a distance of 42 million light-years (13.0 Mpc) from the Milky Way galaxy.[5][6] It has an angular separation of just 9′ from NGC 5965, but the two galaxies are not physically related.[1] Although it is relatively isolated,[11] NGC 5963 is sometimes classified as a member of the NGC 5866 Group of galaxies.[6]
The morphological classification of NGC 5963 is Sc, indicating a spiral galaxy with somewhat loosely wound spiral arms.[5] It is characterized by an unusually low surface brightness and has just a hint of a bulge component.[11][1] There is a high surface brightness nuclear region with an oval shape spanning ~40″, which forms a spiral sub-system. Surrounding this is a patchy, loosely wound spiral forming a faint disk.[11] The rotation curve of NGC 5963 matches that of similar galaxies with normal surface brightness, suggesting this galaxy has a more concentrated halo.[5]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 König, Michael; Binnewies, Stefan (2017). The Cambridge Photographic Atlas of Galaxies. Cambridge University Press. p. 60. ISBN 9781107189485. https://books.google.com/books?id=JY0wDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA60.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Brown, A. G. A. (August 2018). "Gaia Data Release 2: Summary of the contents and survey properties". Astronomy & Astrophysics 616: A1. doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201833051. Bibcode: 2018A&A...616A...1G. Gaia DR2 record for this source at VizieR.
- ↑ Abazajian, Kevork N. et al. (2009). "The Seventh Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey". The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series 182 (2): 543–558. doi:10.1088/0067-0049/182/2/543. Bibcode: 2009ApJS..182..543A.
- ↑ Tully, R. Brent et al. (2016). "Cosmicflows-3". The Astronomical Journal 152 (2): 50. doi:10.3847/0004-6256/152/2/50. Bibcode: 2016AJ....152...50T.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 Bosma, A. et al. (June 1988). "A 21-cm line study of NGC 5963, an SC galaxy with a low-surface brightness disk". Astronomy and Astrophysics 198 (1–2): 100–108. Bibcode: 1988A&A...198..100B.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 Sanchez-Salcedo, F. J. (September 2005). "The dark halo of NGC 5963 as a constraint on dark matter self-interaction at the low-velocity regime". The Astrophysical Journal 631 (1): 244–251. doi:10.1086/432593. Bibcode: 2005ApJ...631..244S.
- ↑ "Uppsala General Catalog of Galaxies 9906". NASA HEASARC. https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/db-perl/W3Browse/w3table.pl?tablehead=name%3Dugc&Action=More+Options. Retrieved 2024-02-22.
- ↑ "NED results for NGC 5963". NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database. University of California. https://ned.ipac.caltech.edu/byname?objname=ngc+5963&hconst=67.8&omegam=0.308&omegav=0.692&wmap=4&corr_z=1.
- ↑ "NGC 5963". SIMBAD. Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg. http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/simbad/sim-basic?Ident=NGC+5963.
- ↑ Seligman, Courtney. "NGC Objects: NGC 5950 - 5999". Celestial Atlas. https://cseligman.com/text/atlas/ngc59a.htm#5963.
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 Romanishin, W. et al. (July 1982). "Observations of the mass and light distribution of NGC 5963, an unusual low surface brightness spiral". Astrophysical Journal 258: 77–82. doi:10.1086/160054. Bibcode: 1982ApJ...258...77R.
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