NGC 2998
| NGC 2998 | |
|---|---|
 SDSSimage of NGC 2998 | |
| Observation data (J2000epoch) | |
| Constellation | Ursa Major |
| Right ascension | 09h48m43.630s[1] |
| Declination | +44° 04′ 52.63″[1] |
| Redshift | 0.01591[2] |
| Heliocentric radial velocity | 4732 ± 3 km/s[2] |
| Distance | 195Mly(59.7Mpc)[3] |
| Apparent magnitude(B) | 13.3[4] |
| Characteristics | |
| Type | SAB(rs)c[5] |
| Apparent size(V) | 1.080′× 0.562′[1] |
| Other designations | |
| NGC2998,UGC5250,MCG+07-20-051,PGC28196[4] | |
NGC 2998is abarred spiral galaxylocated in the constellationUrsa Major.[5]It is 195 million light-years (59.7megaparsecs) away from the Earth.[3]It is anintermediate spiral galaxy.[5]Its stellar mass is about that of theMilky Way.[6]
NGC 2998 is a member of the eponymous NGC 2998 group, a relatively dense galaxy group which also includesNGC 3002,NGC 3005,NGC 3006,NGC 3008and a few others.[7][6]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^abcSkrutskie, 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.ISSN0004-6256.S2CID18913331.
- ^abAhn, C. P.; et al. (2009). "The Ninth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: First Spectroscopic Data from the SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey".The Astrophysical Journal Supplement.203(2): 21.arXiv:1207.7137.Bibcode:2012ApJS..203...21A.doi:10.1088/0067-0049/203/2/21.S2CID20026118.
- ^abTully, R. Brent; Courtois, Hélène M.; Sorce, Jenny G. (2016)."Cosmicflows-3".The Astronomical Journal.152(2): 21.arXiv:1605.01765.Bibcode:2016AJ....152...50T.doi:10.3847/0004-6256/152/2/50.S2CID250737862.50.
- ^ab"NGC 2998".SIMBAD.Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg.Retrieved5 October2018.
- ^abc"NED results for object NGC 2998".NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database.Retrieved5 October2018.
- ^abPaudel, Sanjaya; Sengupta, Chandreyee; Yoon, Suk-Jin; Chhatkuli, Daya Nidhi (2020)."MCG+07-20-052: Interacting Dwarf Pair in a Group Environment".The Astronomical Journal.159(4): 141.arXiv:2002.10076.Bibcode:2020AJ....159..141P.doi:10.3847/1538-3881/ab722f.S2CID211258826.
- ^"NAME NGC 2998 Group".SIMBAD.Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg.Retrieved2021-02-14.
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