NGC 7741 explained

NGC 7741
Credit:Adam Block/Mount Lemmon SkyCenter/University of Arizona
Epoch:J2000
Type:SB(s)cd [1]
Dist Ly:41.2 ± 6.9 Mly (12.6 ± 2.1 Mpc)
Z:0.002502 ± 0.000001
H Radial V:750 ± 0 km/s
Appmag V:11.0
Size V:4.4 × 3.0
Constellation Name:Pegasus
Names:UGC 12754, CGCG 476-125, MCG +04-55-050, PGC 72237

NGC 7741 is a barred spiral galaxy located in the constellation Pegasus. It is located at a distance of circa 40 million light years from Earth, which, given its apparent dimensions, means that NGC 7741 is about 50,000 light years across. It was discovered by William Herschel on September 10, 1784.[2]

NGC 7741 has a strong bar and two spiral arms. The spiral arms are patchy and diffuse and their inner part forms a pseudoring.[3] There are numerous HII regions along the bar and the spiral arms, and a total number of 10 HII region complexes have been observed, with radius 6 arcseconds. They have ages between 5 and 9 million years.[4] The star formation rate in the central region of NGC 7741 is 0.022 per year per square kpc.[5] The total stellar mass of NGC 7741 is estimated to be .[6]

NGC 7741 belongs to a small galaxy group known as the NGC 7741 group. Other members of the group are the galaxies UGC 12732, and UGC 12791.[7]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database . Results for NGC 7741 . 2016-01-18 .
  2. Web site: Seligman . Courtney . NGC 7741 (= PGC 72237) . Celestial Atlas . 19 November 2018.
  3. Eskridge . Paul B. . Frogel . Jay A. . Pogge . Richard W. . Quillen . Alice C. . Berlind . Andreas A. . Davies . Roger L. . DePoy . D. L. . Gilbert . Karoline M. . Houdashelt . Mark L. . Kuchinski . Leslie E. . Ramirez . Solange V. . Sellgren . K. . Stutz . Amelia . Terndrup . Donald M. . Tiede . Glenn P. . Near-Infrared and Optical Morphology of Spiral Galaxies . The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series . November 2002 . 143 . 1 . 73–111 . 10.1086/342340. 2002ApJS..143...73E . astro-ph/0206320 . 15491635 .
  4. Khramtsova . M. S. . Wiebe . D. S. . Lozinskaya . T. A. . Egorov . O. V. . Optical and infrared emission of H ii complexes as a clue to the PAH life cycle . Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society . October 2014 . 444 . 1 . 757–775 . 10.1093/mnras/stu1482. 2014MNRAS.444..757K . 1407.8307 . 118527414 .
  5. Tsai . Mengchun . Hwang . Chorng-Yuan . Star formation in the central regions of active and normal galaxies . The Astronomical Journal . 14 July 2015 . 150 . 2 . 43 . 10.1088/0004-6256/150/2/43. 2015AJ....150...43T . free .
  6. Font . J. . Beckman . J. E. . Martínez-Valpuesta . I. . Borlaff . A. S. . James . P. A. . Díaz-García . S. . García-Lorenzo . B. . Camps-Fariña . A. . Gutiérrez . L. . Amram . P. . Kinematic Clues to Bar Evolution for Galaxies in the Local Universe: Why the Fastest Rotating Bars are Rotating Most Slowly . The Astrophysical Journal . 2 February 2017 . 835 . 2 . 279 . 10.3847/1538-4357/835/2/279. 2017ApJ...835..279F . 1702.01743 . 55782342 . free .
  7. Makarov. Dmitry. Karachentsev. Igor. Galaxy groups and clouds in the local (z~ 0.01) Universe. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 21 April 2011. 412. 4. 2498–2520. 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2010.18071.x. 2011MNRAS.412.2498M. 1011.6277. 119194025. 29 December 2018. 31 January 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160131020344/http://www.sao.ru/hq/dim/groups/galaxies.dat. dead.

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