NGC 2998

NGC 2998 is a barred spiral galaxy located in the constellation Ursa Major.[5] It is 195 million light-years (59.7 megaparsecs) away from the Earth.[3] It is an intermediate spiral galaxy.[5] Its stellar mass is about that of the Milky Way.[6]

NGC 2998
SDSS image of NGC 2998
Observation data (J2000 epoch)
ConstellationUrsa Major
Right ascension09h 48m 43.630s[1]
Declination+44° 04′ 52.63″[1]
Redshift0.01591[2]
Heliocentric radial velocity4732 ± 3 km/s[2]
Distance195 Mly (59.7 Mpc)[3]
Apparent magnitude (B)13.3[4]
Characteristics
TypeSAB(rs)c[5]
Apparent size (V)1.080′ × 0.562′[1]
Other designations
NGC 2998, UGC 5250, MCG +07-20-051, PGC 28196[4]

NGC 2998 is a member of the eponymous NGC 2998 group, a relatively dense galaxy group which also includes NGC 3002, NGC 3005, NGC 3006, NGC 3008 and a few others.[7][6]

See also

References
  1. 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.
  2. Ahn, 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. S2CID 20026118.
  3. Tully, 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. S2CID 250737862. 50.
  4. "NGC 2998". SIMBAD. Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg. Retrieved 5 October 2018.
  5. "NED results for object NGC 2998". NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database. Retrieved 5 October 2018.
  6. Paudel, 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. S2CID 211258826.
  7. "NAME NGC 2998 Group". SIMBAD. Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg. Retrieved 2021-02-14.


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