NGC 3486

NGC 3486 is an intermediate barred spiral galaxy located about 27.4^[3] million light years away in the constellation of Leo Minor. It has a morphological classification of SAB(r)c,^[5] which indicates it is a weakly barred spiral with an inner ring and loosely wound arms.^[6] This is a borderline, low-luminosity Seyfert galaxy with an active nucleus. However, no radio or X-ray emission has been detected from the core, and it may only have a small supermassive black hole with less than a million times the mass of the Sun.^[7]

NGC 3486
NGC 3486 (Hubble Space Telescope)
Observation data (J2000 epoch)
Constellation	Leo Minor
Right ascension	11h 00m 23.946s[1]
Declination	+28° 58′ 29.35″[1]
Redshift	+0.004113 ± 0.000003[2]
Heliocentric radial velocity	+681[3] km/s
Distance	27.4 Mly (8.41 Mpc)[3]
Apparent magnitude (V)	10.5[4]
Characteristics
Type	SAB(r)c[5]
Apparent size (V)	7.1' × 5.3'
Other designations
UGC 6079

References

1. Skrutskie, Michael F.; Cutri, Roc M.; Stiening, Rae; Weinberg, Martin D.; Schneider, Stephen E.; Carpenter, John M.; Beichman, Charles A.; Capps, Richard W.; Chester, Thomas; Elias, Jonathan H.; Huchra, John P.; Liebert, James W.; Lonsdale, Carol J.; Monet, David G.; Price, Stephan; Seitzer, Patrick; Jarrett, Thomas H.; Kirkpatrick, J. Davy; Gizis, John E.; Howard, Elizabeth V.; Evans, Tracey E.; Fowler, John W.; Fullmer, Linda; Hurt, Robert L.; Light, Robert M.; Kopan, Eugene L.; Marsh, Kenneth A.; McCallon, Howard L.; Tam, Robert; Van Dyk, Schuyler D.; Wheelock, Sherry L. (1 February 2006). "The Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS)". The Astronomical Journal. 131 (2): 1163–1183. Bibcode:2006AJ....131.1163S. doi:10.1086/498708. ISSN 0004-6256. S2CID 18913331.
2. Wegner, Gary; et al. (December 2001), "Redshifts for 2410 Galaxies in the Century Survey Region", The Astronomical Journal, 122 (6): 2893–2900, arXiv:astro-ph/0109101, Bibcode:2001AJ....122.2893W, doi:10.1086/323915, S2CID 118957098.
3. Crook, Aidan C.; et al. (February 2007), "Groups of Galaxies in the Two Micron All Sky Redshift Survey", The Astrophysical Journal, 655 (2): 790–813, arXiv:astro-ph/0610732, Bibcode:2007ApJ...655..790C, doi:10.1086/510201, S2CID 11672751.
4. "NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database". Results for NGC 3486. Retrieved 2006-11-21.
5. Conselice, C. J. (November 1997), "The Symmetry, Color, and Morphology of Galaxies", Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 109: 1251–1255, arXiv:astro-ph/9710234, Bibcode:1997PASP..109.1251C, doi:10.1086/134004, S2CID 119348520.
6. Buta, Ronald J.; et al. (2007), Atlas of Galaxies, Cambridge University Press, pp. 13–17, ISBN 978-0521820486.
7. Maoz, Dan (June 2007), "Low-luminosity active galactic nuclei: are they UV faint and radio loud?", Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 377 (4): 1696–1710, arXiv:astro-ph/0702292, Bibcode:2007MNRAS.377.1696M, doi:10.1111/j.1365-2966.2007.11735.x, S2CID 17578792.

External links

• Media related to NGC 3486 at Wikimedia Commons
• NGC 3486 on WikiSky: DSS2, SDSS, GALEX, IRAS, Hydrogen α, X-Ray, Astrophoto, Sky Map, Articles and images