NGC 918

NGC 918 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Aries about 67 million light years from the Milky Way. It was discovered by John Herschel on Jan 11, 1831.[4]

NGC 918
NGC 918 by the Mount Lemmon SkyCenter
Observation data (J2000 epoch)
ConstellationAries
Right ascension02h 25m 50s[1]
Declination+18° 29′ 46″[1]
Redshift0.005027[2]
Helio radial velocity1507 ± 3 km/s[2]
Distance (comoving)20.6±1.5 mpc [3]
Apparent magnitude (V)15.01[1]
Apparent magnitude (B)16.0[1]
Characteristics
TypeSAB(rs)c[2]
Other designations
NGC 918,MCG+03-07-011, LEDA 9236[1]

The brightness class of NGC 918 is III and has a broad HI line. NGC 918 is also an active nucleus galaxy (AGN). Moreover, it is a galaxy of the field , that is to say, it does not belong to a cluster or group and is therefore gravitationally isolated.[5]

Many non-redshift measures give a distance of 19,115 ± 6,160 Mpc (~62,3 million ly),[6] which is within the distances calculated using the value shift.[3]

Supernova 2009

Supernova SN 2009js was discovered in this galaxy October 11, 2009 at 17.2 magnitude.[5][7][8][9]

Supernova 2011

Supernova SN 2011ek was discovered on Aug. 4, 2011 by Koichi Itagaki at 16.4 magnitude.[10][11]

See also

References
  1. "NGC 918". SIMBAD. Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg. Retrieved 19 June 2019.
  2. "NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database". ned.ipac.caltech.edu. Retrieved 19 June 2019.
  3. We obtain the distance that separates us from a galaxy using Hubble's law: v = Hod, where Ho is the Hubble constant (70 ± 5 (km / s) / Mpc). The relative uncertainty Δd / d over the distance is equal to the sum of the relative uncertainties of the velocity and Ho.
  4. Seligman, Courtney. "New General Catalog Objects: NGC 900 - 949". New General Catalog Objects: NGC 900 - 949. Retrieved 19 June 2019.
  5. http://ned.ipac.caltech.edu/cgi-bin/nph-objsearch?objname=ngc+918&img_stamp=YES
  6. https://ned.ipac.caltech.edu/cgi-bin/nDistance?name=NGC+918
  7. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap091112.html
  8. SN 2009js at the Crossroads between Normal and Subluminous Type IIP Supernovae: Optical and Mid-infrared Evolution, The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 767, Issue 2, article id. 166, 15 pp. (2013).
  9. http://www.rochesterastronomy.org/sn2009/sn2009js.html
  10. https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2011CBET.2783....1N/abstract
  11. http://www.rochesterastronomy.org/sn2011/sn2011ek.html
  • Media related to NGC 918 at Wikimedia Commons


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