Galaxy in the constellation Reticulum
NGC 1313 (also known as the Topsy Turvy Galaxy [ 2] ) is a field galaxy [ 3] and an irregular galaxy [ 4] discovered by the Scottish astronomer James Dunlop on 27 September 1826.[ 5] It has a diameter of about 50,000 light-years , or about half the size of the Milky Way .[ 6]
NGC 1313 lies within the Virgo Supercluster .[ 7]
In 2007, a rare WO star was discovered in NGC 1313,[ 8] currently known by its only designation of [HC2007] 31. It is of spectral type WO3.[ 8] The derived absolute magnitude is about -5,[ 8] which is very high for a single WO star. (WOs usually have absolute magnitudes of about -1 to -4) This means that the WO is likely part of a binary or a small stellar association.[ 8]
Supernovae
Two supernovae have been observed in NGC 2841:
SN 1962M (type II , mag. 11.7) was discovered by José Sérsic on 26 November 1962.[ 9] [ 10]
SN 1978K (type IIn, mag. 16) was discovered by Stuart Ryder in January 1990 and originally reported as a nova.[ 11] However, a search of archival photographs revealed an outburst on 31 July 1978, and all data indicated that it was a very unusual type II supernova.[ 12]
Features
NGC 1313 has a strikingly uneven shape and its axis of rotation is not exactly in its centre.[ 13] NGC 1313 also shows strong starburst activity[ 14] and associated supershells .[ 15] NGC 1313 is dominated by scattered patches of intense star formation, which gives the galaxy a rather ragged appearance.[ 16] The uneven shape, the ragged appearance and the strong starburst can all be explained by a galactic collision in the past.[ 17] However, NGC 1313 seems to be an isolated galaxy and has no direct neighbours. Therefore, it is not clear whether it has swallowed a small companion in its past.[ 2]
Young, blue stars are scattered across the galaxy.[ 18] This is evidence of infant mortality in which the young open clusters quickly became gravitationally "unglued", scattering their resident stars into the galaxy.[ 19] The galaxy bears some resemblance to the Magellanic Clouds [ 20] and hosts two ultraluminous X-ray sources , called NGC 1313 X-1 and X-2.[ 21] The former is a rare intermediate-mass black hole .[ 22] [ 23]
References
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"NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database" . Results for NGC 1313 . Retrieved 17 May 2023 .
^ a b "The Topsy-Turvy Galaxy NGC 1313" . ESO . 23 November 2006.
^ "Taking a narrow view of lopsided galaxy" . Gemini Observatory . 21 May 2010. Archived from the original on 12 June 2015. Retrieved 22 February 2016 .
^ Nemiroff, R.; Bonnell, J., eds. (7 August 2009). "The Star Clusters of NGC 1313" . Astronomy Picture of the Day . NASA .
^ Courtney Seligman. "NGC 1313 (= PGC 12286)" . Celestial Atlas. Archived from the original on 2015-06-12. Retrieved 2016-02-22 .
^ Nemiroff, R.; Bonnell, J., eds. (30 March 2010). "Unusual Starburst Galaxy NGC 1313" . Astronomy Picture of the Day . NASA .
^ "Nearby Groups of Galaxies" . ned.ipac.caltech.edu . Retrieved 2018-05-07 .
^ a b c d Hadfield, L. J.; Crowther, P. A. (2007-10-01). "A survey of the Wolf-Rayet population of the barred, spiral galaxy NGC 1313" . Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society . 381 (1): 418– 432. arXiv :0708.2039 . Bibcode :2007MNRAS.381..418H . doi :10.1111/j.1365-2966.2007.12284.x . ISSN 0035-8711 . S2CID 3024190 .
^ Hill, P. W. (1965). "The Spectrum of the 1962 Supernova in NGC 1313" . Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society . 131 : 155– 157. doi :10.1093/mnras/131.1.155 .
^ "SN 1962M" . Transient Name Server . IAU . Retrieved 1 December 2024 .
^ Dopita, M. A.; Ryder, S. D. (1990). "Nova in NGC 1313". International Astronomical Union Circular . 4950 : 3. Bibcode :1990IAUC.4950....3D .
^ Ryder, Stuart; Staveley-Smith, Lister; Dopita, Michael; Petre, Robert; Colbert, Edward; Malin, David; Schlegel, Eric (1993). "SN 1978K: An Extraordinary Supernova in the Nearby Galaxy NGC 1313" . The Astrophysical Journal . 416 : 167. doi :10.1086/173223 .
^ 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 .
^ "VLT Image of Starburst Galaxy NGC 1313" . European Southern Observatory . 23 November 2006. Retrieved 22 February 2016 .
^ Suzuki; et al. (2013). "AKARI view of star formation in NGC 1313" . Astronomy & Astrophysics . 554 : A8. Bibcode :2013A&A...554A...8S . doi :10.1051/0004-6361/201220294 .
^ "NGC 1313" . Astrosurf. 22 October 2006.
^ "Tumult in NGC 1313" (in German). Wissenschaft.de. 28 November 2006.
^ "Hubble Sees Star Cluster "Infant Mortality" " . NASA. 10 January 2007. Retrieved 23 February 2016 .
^ Anne Pellerin; Martin Meyer; Jason Harris; Daniela Calzetti (2007). "Stellar Clusters in NGC 1313: Evidence of Infant Mortality". The Astrophysical Journal . 653 (2): L87 – L90 . arXiv :astro-ph/0702547 . Bibcode :2007ApJ...658L..87P . doi :10.1086/515437 . S2CID 5537525 .
^ Mollá, Mercedes; Roy, Jean-René (1 April 1999). "Modeling the Radial Abundance Distribution of the Transition Galaxy NGC 1313". The Astrophysical Journal . 514 (2): 781– 786. arXiv :astro-ph/9903129 . Bibcode :1999ApJ...514..781M . doi :10.1086/306982 . S2CID 18874798 .
^ Matteo Bachetti; et al. (2013). "The Ultraluminous X-Ray Sources NGC 1313 X-1 and X-2: A Broadband Study with NuSTAR and XMM-Newton". The Astrophysical Journal . 778 (2): 163. arXiv :1310.0745 . Bibcode :2013ApJ...778..163B . doi :10.1088/0004-637X/778/2/163 . S2CID 28161179 .
^ Dheeraj Pasham; et al. (2015). "Evidence for High-Frequency QPOs with a 3:2 Frequency Ratio from a 5000 Solar Mass Black Hole". The Astrophysical Journal . 811 (1): L11. arXiv :1601.02628 . Bibcode :2015ApJ...811L..11P . doi :10.1088/2041-8205/811/1/L11 . S2CID 33907571 .
^ "Intermediate-Mass Black Hole 5,000 Times Mass of Sun" . Sci-News.com. 23 September 2015. Retrieved 23 February 2016 .
External links
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