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NGC 997

Coordinates: Sky map 02h 37m 14.5s, +07° 18′ 28.0″
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NGC 997
NGC 997 and its neighbouring galaxies captured by SDSS
Observation data (J2000 epoch)
ConstellationCetus
Right ascension02h 37m 14.50s
Declination±07° 18′ 28.0″
Redshift0.021695
Heliocentric radial velocity6504 ± 42 km/s
Distance301.6 ± 21.3 Mly (92.48 ± 6.54 Mpc)
Group or cluster[CHM2007] HDC 157, [CHM2007] LDC 181, [T2015] nest 200334
Characteristics
TypeE[1]
Size~105,800 ly (32.44 kpc) (estimated)
Other designations
IRAS F02345+0705, UGC 2102, MCG +01-07-016, CGCG 414-027
References: [2][1]

NGC 997 is an interacting galaxy in the constellation of Cetus. The galaxy was discovered by Albert Marth on 10 November 1863.[3] It has a regularly rotating central molecular gas disk, containing a black hole of between 4 x 107 and 1.8 x 109 solar masses.[4] Its speed relative to the cosmological background is 6,270 ± 45 km/s, corresponding to a Hubble distance of 92.5 ± 6.5 Mpc (~302 million ly).[2]

NGC 997 is accompanied by PGC 200205, also designated as NGC 997 NED01,[5] a compact galaxy. No data is available for the latter galaxy. So, this pair may be due to an optical alignment, or they may be two gravitationally interacting galaxies about to merge.

One supernova has been observed in NGC 997: SN 2020nej (type Ia, mag. 17).[6]

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References

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  1. ^ a b "NGC 997". SIMBAD. Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg. Retrieved 2021-08-23.
  2. ^ a b "Results for object NGC 997". NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database. NASA and Caltech. Retrieved 5 September 2024.
  3. ^ Seligman, Courtney. "New General Catalogue objects: NGC 950 - 999". cseligman.com. Retrieved 2021-08-23.
  4. ^ Dominiak, Pandora; Bureau, Martin; Davis, Timothy A; Ma, Chung-Pei; Greene, Jenny E; Gu, Meng (2024-01-31). "The MASSIVE survey - XIX. Molecular gas measurements of the supermassive black hole masses in the elliptical galaxies NGC 1684 and NGC 0997". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 529 (2): 1597–1616. arXiv:2401.16376. doi:10.1093/mnras/stae314. ISSN 0035-8711.
  5. ^ "Results for object NGC 997 NED01". NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database. NASA and Caltech. Retrieved 5 September 2024.
  6. ^ "SN 2020nej". Transient Name Server. IAU. Retrieved 5 September 2024.
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