NGC 5395

NGC 5395 is an interacting spiral galaxy located at a distance of 160 million light years, but receding away from the Earth at 3511 kilometers (2181.6 miles) per second, in the constellation Canes Venatici. It was discovered by William Herschel on May 16, 1787. NGC 5395 and NGC 5394 are included in the Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies as Arp 84 in the category "Spiral galaxies with large high surface brightness companions".[4][5]

NGC 5395
NGC 5395 (upper left) and NGC 5394 (lower right) as taken from Mount Lemmon SkyCenter
Observation data (J2000 epoch)
ConstellationCanes Venatici
Right ascension13h 58m 38.0s[1]
Declination+37° 25′ 28″[1]
Redshift0.011711[1]
Heliocentric radial velocity3511 ± 10 km/s[1]
Distance176.8 Mly (54.22 Mpc)[2]
Apparent magnitude (V)12.48[3]
Apparent magnitude (B)13.26[3]
Characteristics
TypeSA(s)b pec[1]
Other designations
NGC 5395, UGC 8900, MCG +06-31-034, PGC 49747[3]

NGC 5395 is the larger spiral galaxy interacting with smaller barred spiral galaxy, NGC 5394. NGC 5395 is nearly face-on, with a diameter of around 140,000 light-years across. NGC 5395 has a bright central region and is distorted due to the interaction with NGC 5394. The larger of the two rings around the galaxy forms a ring off the center of the galaxy. Dust lanes can be seen throughout the galaxy.[4]

NGC 5394 is the smaller barred spiral galaxy interacting with larger spiral galaxy, NGC 5395. NGC 5394 has an oval disk, with a diameter of around 90 thousand light years across. It is also located at a distance of 160 million light-years across but receding away from the Earth at a distance of 3448 kilometers (2142.4 miles) per second. Most of the gas is concentrated at the center of the galaxy, however, two out of the three spiral arms show no sign of ongoing star formation.[4]

NGC 5395 is a Seyfert 2 galaxy.[3]

Supernova
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One supernova has been detected in NGC 5395, Type Ic supernova SN 2000cr. It was discovered on June 25.90 and 25.94 (UTC) at magnitude 17.0 lying northeast of the nucleus.[4][6]

See also

References
  1. "NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database". ned.ipac.caltech.edu. Retrieved May 9, 2019.
  2. Crook, Aidan C.; Huchra, John P.; Martimbeau, Nathalie; Masters, Karen L.; Jarrett, Tom; Macri, Lucas M. (2007). "Groups of Galaxies in the Two Micron All Sky Redshift Survey". The Astrophysical Journal. 655 (2): 790–813. arXiv:astro-ph/0610732. Bibcode:2007ApJ...655..790C. doi:10.1086/510201. S2CID 11672751.
  3. "NGC 5395". SIMBAD. Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg. Retrieved 4 December 2018.
  4. "NGC 5395 and 5394, interacting galaxies in Canes Venatici". Anne's Astronomy News. 24 May 2013. Retrieved 1 July 2019.
  5. Seligman, Courtney. "New General Catalog Objects: NGC 5350 - 5399". cseligman.com. Retrieved 10 May 2019.
  6. Migliardi, M.; Dimai, A.; Li, W.; Jha, S.; Challis, P.; Kirshner, R.; Calkin, S.M. (June 2000). "NASA/ADS". Ui.adsabs.harvard.edu. IAU Circ., No. 7443, #1 (2000). Edited by Green, D. W. E. Bibcode:2000IAUC.7443....1M.
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