NGC 5474 explained
| NGC 5474 |
| Epoch: | J2000 |
| Constellation Name: | Ursa Major[1] |
| Ra: | [2] |
| Z: | 273 ± 9 km/s |
| Dist Ly: | 21.2 ± 2.2 Mly (6.5 ± 0.7 Mpc) |
| Type: | SA(s)cd pec |
| Appmag V: | 11.3 |
| Size V: | 4.8 × 4.3 |
| Names: | UGC 9013, PGC 50216 |
NGC 5474 is a peculiar dwarf galaxy in the constellation Ursa Major. It is one of several companion galaxies of the Pinwheel Galaxy (M101), a grand-design spiral galaxy.[3] [4] Among the Pinwheel Galaxy's companions, this galaxy is the closest to the Pinwheel Galaxy itself. The gravitational interaction between NGC 5474 and the Pinwheel Galaxy has strongly distorted the former. As a result, the disk is offset relative to the nucleus.[5] The star formation in this galaxy (as traced by hydrogen spectral line emission) is also offset from the nucleus. NGC 5474 shows some signs of a spiral structure. As a result, this galaxy is often classified as a dwarf spiral galaxy, a relatively rare group of dwarf galaxies.
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- Book: R. W. Sinnott . The Complete New General Catalogue and Index Catalogue of Nebulae and Star Clusters by J. L. E. Dreyer . 1988 . Sky Publishing Corporation and Cambridge University Press . 978-0-933346-51-2.
- Web site: NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database . Results for NGC 5474 . 2006-09-20.
- Photometric distances to six bright resolved galaxies . Astronomy and Astrophysics Supplement . 2000 . 142 . 3 . 425–432 . 2000A&AS..142..425D . 10.1051/aas:2000155 . Drozdovsky, I. O. . Karachentsev, I. D. . free .
- Book: A. Sandage . J. Bedke . 1994 . Carnegie Atlas of Galaxies . . Washington, D.C. . 978-0-87279-667-6 .
- R. M. Gonzalez Delgado . E. Perez . C. Tadhunter . J. M. Vilchez . J. M. Rodriguez-Espinosa . H II Region Population in a Sample of Nearby Galaxies with Nuclear Activity. I. Data and General Results . Astrophysical Journal Supplement . 2000 . 108 . 1 . 155 . 1997ApJS..108..155G . 10.1086/312951. free .
