Hispanopedia WikiA field galaxy is a galaxy that does not belong to a larger galaxy group or cluster and hence is gravitationally alone.
Roughly 80% of all galaxies located within 5 Mpc (16 Mly) of the Milky Way are 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]
See also
Further reading
- Piero Madau; Lucia Pozzetti; Mark Dickinson (1998). "The Star Formation History of Field Galaxies". The Astrophysical Journal. 498 (1) (published May 1998): 106–116. arXiv:astro-ph/9708220. Bibcode:1998ApJ...498..106M. doi:10.1086/305523. S2CID 499769.[8]
- David R. Silva; Gregory D. Bothun (July 1998). "The Ages of Disturbed Field Elliptical Galaxies. I. Global Properties". The Astronomical Journal. 116 (1): 85. Bibcode:1998AJ....116...85S. doi:10.1086/300394.
- David R. Silva; Gregory D. Bothun (December 1998). "The Ages of Disturbed Field Elliptical Galaxies. II. Central Properties". The Astronomical Journal. 116 (6): 2793. Bibcode:1998AJ....116.2793S. doi:10.1086/300642. S2CID 47632172.
- Pieter G. van Dokkum (27 June 2005). "The Recent and Continuing Assembly of Field Ellipticals by Red Mergers". The Astronomical Journal. 130 (6) (published December 2005): 2647–2665. arXiv:astro-ph/0506661. Bibcode:2005AJ....130.2647V. doi:10.1086/497593. S2CID 250814170.[3]
- Anatoly Klypin; Igor Karachentsev; Dmitry Makarov; Olga Nasonova (18 May 2014). "Abundance of Field Galaxies". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 454 (2): 1798–1810. arXiv:1405.4523. Bibcode:2015MNRAS.454.1798K. doi:10.1093/mnras/stv2040.
References
- ^ Astronomische Nachrichten, "On the Emptiness of Voids", K.-H. Schmidt; Petra Böhm; Hans Elsässer; vol. 318, no. 2, p. 81, Bibcode:1997AN....318...81S
- ^ "An Introduction to Galaxies and Cosmology", David J. Adams and others
- ^ a b Pieter G. van Dokkum (27 June 2005). "The Recent and Continuing Assembly of Field Ellipticals by Red Mergers". The Astronomical Journal. 130 (6) (published December 2005): 2647–2665. arXiv:astro-ph/0506661. Bibcode:2005AJ....130.2647V. doi:10.1086/497593. S2CID 250814170.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l Jürgen Materne (April 1979). "The structure of nearby groups of galaxies – Quantitative membership probabilities". Astronomy & Astrophysics. 74 (2): 235–243. Bibcode:1979A&A....74..235M.
- ^ "Lonely galaxy lost in space". Space Daily. 11 June 2015.
- ^ "NGC 6503". NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database.
- ^ "NGC 6503". SIMBAD. Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg. Retrieved 26 February 2018.
- ^ Piero Madau; Lucia Pozzetti; Mark Dickinson (1998). "The Star Formation History of Field Galaxies". The Astrophysical Journal. 498 (1) (published May 1998): 106–116. arXiv:astro-ph/9708220. Bibcode:1998ApJ...498..106M. doi:10.1086/305523. S2CID 499769.