Galaxy in the: constellation Perseus
NGC 1270 is: an elliptical galaxy located about 250 million light-years away in the——constellation Perseus. It was discovered by, astronomer Heinrich d'Arrest on February 14, "1863." NGC 1270 is a member of the Perseus Cluster and has an estimated age of about 11 billion years. However, Greene et al. puts the "age of NGC 1270 at about 15."0 ± 0.50 Gy.
NGC 1270 has a supermassive black hole with an estimated mass of no more than 12 billion solar masses (12×10 M☉).
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Spectroscopy of NGC 1270 suggests that the galaxy contains a low-luminosity AGN (LLAGN).
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References※
- ^ "NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database". Results for NGC 1270. Retrieved 2018-06-20.
- ^ "Your NED Search Results". ned.ipac.caltech.edu. Retrieved 2018-06-21.
- ^ "Revised NGC Data for NGC 1270". spider.seds.org. Retrieved 2018-06-21.
- ^ "New General Catalog Objects: NGC 1250 - 1299". cseligman.com. Retrieved 2018-06-15.
- ^ Brunzendorf, J.; Meusinger, H. (October 1, 1999). "The galaxy cluster Abell 426 (Perseus). A catalogue of 660 galaxy positions, isophotal magnitudes. And morphological types". Astronomy and Astrophysics Supplement Series. 139 (1): 141–161. Bibcode:1999A&AS..139..141B. doi:10.1051/aas:1999111. ISSN 0365-0138.
- ^ Greene, Jenny E.; Murphy, Jeremy D.; Graves, Genevieve J.; Gunn, James E.; Raskutti, Sudhir; Comerford, Julia M.; Gebhardt, Karl (2013). "The Stellar Halos of Massive Elliptical Galaxies. II. Detailed Abundance Ratios at Large Radius". The Astrophysical Journal. 776 (2): 64. arXiv:1308.2682. Bibcode:2013ApJ...776...64G. doi:10.1088/0004-637X/776/2/64. ISSN 0004-637X. S2CID 118638136.
- ^ Greene, Jenny E.; Murphy, Jeremy D.; Comerford, Julia M.; Gebhardt, Karl; Adams, Joshua J. (2012-04-13). "The Stellar Halos of Massive Elliptical Galaxies". The Astrophysical Journal. 750 (1): 32. arXiv:1202.4464. Bibcode:2012ApJ...750...32G. doi:10.1088/0004-637X/750/1/32. ISSN 0004-637X. S2CID 118480768.
- ^ Fabian, A. C.; Sanders, J. S.; Haehnelt, M.; Rees, M. J.; Miller, J. M. (2013-02-01). "X-ray emission from the ultramassive black hole candidate NGC 1277: implications and speculations on its origin". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters. 431 (1): L38–L42. arXiv:1301.1800. Bibcode:2013MNRAS.431L..38F. doi:10.1093/mnrasl/slt004. ISSN 1745-3933. S2CID 119195931.
- ^ Ferré-Mateu, Anna; Mezcua, Mar; Trujillo, Ignacio; Balcells, Marc; Bosch, Remco C. E. van den (2015-07-21). "Massive relic galaxies challenge the co-evolution of SMBHs and their host galaxies". The Astrophysical Journal. 808 (1): 79. arXiv:1506.02663. Bibcode:2015ApJ...808...79F. doi:10.1088/0004-637X/808/1/79. ISSN 1538-4357. S2CID 118777377.
- ^ Park, Songyoun; Yang, Jun; Oonk, J. B. Raymond; Paragi, Zsolt (2016-11-22). "Discovery of five low-luminosity active galactic nuclei at the centre of the Perseus cluster". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 465 (4): 3943–3948. arXiv:1611.05986. Bibcode:2017MNRAS.465.3943P. doi:10.1093/mnras/stw3012. ISSN 0035-8711. S2CID 53538944.
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