NGC 1023

NGC 1023
Barred lenticular galaxy NGC 1023
Observation data (J2000 epoch)
Constellation Perseus
Right ascension 02h 40m 24.0s[1]
Declination +39° 03 48[1]
Redshift 0.002125[1]
Helio radial velocity 637 ± 4 km/s[1]
Distance ~19 Mly (Light Travel-Time redshift-based)[1]
30 to 64 Mly (measured)[1]
Apparent magnitude (V) 10.35[1]
Characteristics
Type SB0[1]
Apparent size (V) 8.7' x 3.0'[1]
Other designations
UGC 2154, PGC 10123, MCG+06-06-073, Arp 135

NGC 1023 is a barred lenticular galaxy, a member of the NGC 1023 group of galaxies in the Local Supercluster. Distance measurements vary from 9.3 to 19.7 million parsecs (30 to 64 million light-years).[1] The supermassive black hole at the core has a mass of (4.4±0.5)×107 M.[2]

NGC 1023 is included in Halton Arp's Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies, under the category "Galaxies with Nearby Fragments" under the number 135.[3]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 "NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database". Results for NGC 1023. Retrieved 2012-10-17.
  2. Graham, Alister W. (November 2008), "Populating the Galaxy Velocity Dispersion - Supermassive Black Hole Mass Diagram: A Catalogue of (Mbh, σ) Values", Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia, 25 (4): 167–175, arXiv:0807.2549, Bibcode:2008PASA...25..167G, doi:10.1071/AS08013.
  3. Arp, Halton (1966). Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies. Pasadena, California: California Institute of Technology. Retrieved 5 Jan 2010. (webpage includes PDF link)


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