NGC 5422

NGC 5422 is a lenticular galaxy[3] located in the constellation Ursa Major. It was discovered on April 14, 1789 by the astronomer William Herschel.[5]

NGC 5422
SDSS image of NGC 5422
Observation data (J2000 epoch)
ConstellationUrsa Major
Right ascension14h 00m 42.063s[1]
Declination+55° 09′ 52.12″[1]
Redshift0.006084[2]
Heliocentric radial velocity1818 ± 46 km/s[2]
Distance101 Mly (30.9 Mpc)[3]
Group or clusterNGC 5485 group[3]
Apparent magnitude (V)11.80[4]
Apparent magnitude (B)12.81[4]
Characteristics
TypeS0-a[3]
Other designations
UGC 8935, MCG +09-23-024, PGC 49874[2]

At a distance of about 100 million light-years (30 megaparsecs), NGC 5422 is located within the sparse NGC 5485 group, which is dominated by lenticular galaxies.[3] It has only a single, thick, disk component. Like other galaxies in the group, it has no recent star formation, as its stellar disk is relatively old (about 10 billion years old). Its disk appears similar to the face-on galaxy NGC 6340, but appears edge-on.[3]

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. "NGC 5422". SIMBAD. Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg. Retrieved 2021-05-18.
  3. Kasparova, Anastasia V.; Katkov, Ivan Yu.; Chilingarian, Igor V.; Silchenko, Olga K.; Moiseev, Alexey V.; Borisov, Svyatoslav B. (2016). "The diversity of thick galactic discs". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters. 460 (1): L89–L93. arXiv:1604.07624. Bibcode:2016MNRAS.460L..89K. doi:10.1093/mnrasl/slw083.
  4. "Search specification: NGC 5422". HyperLeda. Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1. Retrieved 2021-05-18.
  5. Seligman, Courtney. "New General Catalogue objects: NGC 5400 - 5449". cseligman.com. Retrieved 2021-05-18.
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