Field galaxy

A field galaxy is a galaxy that does not belong to a larger cluster of galaxies and hence is gravitationally alone.

Roughly 80% of all galaxies located within 5 Mpc (16 Mly) of the Milky Way in groups or clusters of galaxies.[1] Most low-surface-brightness galaxies are field galaxies.[2] The median Hubble-type of field galaxies is Sb, a type of spiral galaxy.[3]

List of field galaxies

A list of nearby relatively bright field galaxies within the Local Volume, about 10 Mpc (33 Mly)[4]

Galaxy Type Size Constellation RA DEC Distance Notes
NGC 1313 [4]
NGC 2188 [4]
NGC 2683 [4]
NGC 2903 [4]
NGC 3115 [4]
NGC 3621 [4]
NGC 4136 [4]
NGC 4605 [4]
NGC 5068 [4]
NGC 6503 SA(s)cd
LINER
30 kly (9.2 kpc) Draco 17h 49m 26.514s +70° 08 39.63 18 Mly (5.5 Mpc) Also called the "Lost-In-Space galaxy" due to its location next to the Local Void. [4][5][6][7]

Further reading

References

  1. Astronomische Nachrichten, "On the Emptiness of Voids", Schmidt, K.-H.; Bohm, P.; Elsasser, H.; vol. 318, no. 2, p. 81, Bibcode: 1997AN....318...81S
  2. "An Introduction to Galaxies and Cosmology", David J. Adams and others
  3. 1 2 Pieter G. van Dokkum (27 June 2005). "The Recent and Continuing Assembly of Field Ellipticals by Red Mergers". The Astronomical Journal (December 2005) 130 (6): 2647–2665. arXiv:astro-ph/0506661. Bibcode:2005AJ....130.2647V. doi:10.1086/497593.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Materne, J. (April 1979). "The structure of nearby groups of galaxies - Quantitative membership probabilities". Astronomy and Astrophysics 74 (2): 235-243. Bibcode:1979A&A....74..235M.
  5. "Lonely galaxy lost in space". Space Daily. 11 June 2015.
  6. "NGC 6503". NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database.
  7. "NGC 6503 -- LINER-type Active Galaxy Nucleus". SIMBAD.
  8. Piero Madau, Lucia Pozzetti, Mark Dickinson (25 August 1997). "The Star Formation History of Field Galaxies". The Astrophysical Journal (May 1998) 498 (1): 106–116. arXiv:astro-ph/9708220. Bibcode:1998ApJ...498..106M. doi:10.1086/305523.
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