A 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. Most low-surface-brightness galaxies are field galaxies. The median Hubble-type of field galaxies is Sb, a type of spiral galaxy.
List of field galaxies
A list of nearby relatively bright field galaxies within the Local Volume, about 10 Mpc (33 Mly)
| Galaxy | Type | Size | Constellation | RA | DEC | Distance | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NGC 404 | SA(s)0 | Andromeda | 01 09 27.0 | +35° 43′ 04″ | 11.2 Mly (3.4 Mpc) | |||
| NGC 1313 | SB(s)d | Reticulum | 03 18 15.4 | −66° 29′ 50″ | 12.89 Mly (3.95 Mpc) | Nicknamed the "Topsy Turvy Galaxy" due to its uneven shape | ||
| NGC 2188 | Sm | Columba | 06 10 09.7 | −34° 06′ 50″ | 27.5 Mly (8.4 Mpc) | |||
| NGC 2683 | Sc | Lynx | 08 52 41.3 | +33° 25′ 18″ | 32.9 Mly (10.1 Mpc) | |||
| NGC 2903 | SBbc | Leo | 09 32 10.1 | +21° 30′ 03″ | 30.6 Mly (9.4 Mpc) | |||
| NGC 3115 | S0 | Sextans | 10 05 14.0 | −7° 43′ 07″ | 31.6 Mly (9.7 Mpc) | |||
| NGC 3621 | SA(s)d | Hydra | 11 18 16.5 | –32° 48′ 51″ | 21.7 Mly (6.7 Mpc) | |||
| NGC 4136 | SABc | Coma Berenices | 12 09 17.7 | +29° 55′ 39″ | 40.9 Mly (12.5 Mpc) | |||
| NGC 4605 | SB(s)c | Ursa Major | 12 39 59.4 | +61° 36′ 33″ | 15.3 Mly (4.7 Mpc) | |||
| NGC 5068 | SAB(rs)cd | Virgo | 13 18 54.8 | −21° 02′ 21″ | 19.8 Mly (6.1 Mpc) | |||
| NGC 6503 | SA(s)cd LINER |
30 kly (9.2 kpc) | Draco | 17 49 26.514 | +70° 08′ 39.63″ | 18.5 Mly (5.7 Mpc) | Also called the "Lost-In-Space galaxy" due to its location next to the Local Void. |
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.
- 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.
- 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
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
