NGC 2950

Galaxy in the constellation Ursa Major

NGC 2950
SDSS image of NGC 2950 (center)
Observation data (J2000 epoch)
Constellation	Ursa Major
Right ascension	09^h 42^m 35.116^s^[1]
Declination	58° 51′ 04.39″^[1]
Redshift	0.004410 ± 0.000017
Heliocentric radial velocity	1,329^[2] km/s
Distance	49.84 ± 0.46 Mly (15.28 ± 0.14 Mpc)^[2]
Apparent magnitude (B)	11.93^[2]
Characteristics
Type	RSB0(r)^[3]
Apparent size (V)	2′.7 × 1′.8^[3]
Other designations
NGC 2950, UGC 5176, PGC 27765^[4]

NGC 2950 is a lenticular galaxy in the northern constellation of Ursa Major, about 50 million light years from the Milky Way and receding with a heliocentric radial velocity of 1,329 km/s.^[2] It was discovered in 1790 by the Anglo-German astronomer William Herschel.^[5] NGC 2950 is a field galaxy, it is not part of a galaxy cluster or galaxy group, and thus is gravitationally isolated.^[6] Nine certain and four possible dwarf galaxies have been identified around NGC 2950.^[7]

The morphological classification of this galaxy is RSB0(r),^[3] indicating a barred lenticular galaxy (SB0) with outer (R) and inner (r) ring structures. It hosts two nested stellar bars; the rotation frequency of the secondary bar is higher than that of the primary one.^[3] Double bars of this type are relatively common, having been found in ~30% of barred lenticulars. The inner bar appears to be counter-rotating relative to the outer bar,^[8] with the two passing cleanly through each other.^[9] The stellar mass of the galaxy is 1.7×10¹⁰ M_☉ while the halo mass is 6.6×10¹¹ M_☉.^[7]

References

^ ^a ^b Skrutskie, Michael F.; et al. (February 1, 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.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Tully, R. Brent; et al. (October 2013), "Cosmicflows-2: The Data", The Astronomical Journal, 146 (4): 25, arXiv:1307.7213, Bibcode:2013AJ....146...86T, doi:10.1088/0004-6256/146/4/86, S2CID 118494842, 86
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Corsini, E. M.; et al. (December 2003). "Direct Confirmation of Two Pattern Speeds in the Double-barred Galaxy NGC 2950". The Astrophysical Journal. 599 (1): L29–L32. arXiv:astro-ph/0310879. Bibcode:2003ApJ...599L..29C. doi:10.1086/381080. S2CID 13102437.
^ "NGC 2950". SIMBAD. Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg. Retrieved 2020-12-16.
^ Seligman, Courtney (2016). "NGC 2950 (= PGC 27765)". Celestial Atlas. Professor Seligman. Retrieved May 1, 2020.
^ "NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database". Results for NGC 2950. Retrieved October 28, 2018.
^ ^a ^b Tanaka, Masayuki; et al. (October 2018). "The Missing Satellite Problem Outside of the Local Group. I. Pilot Observation". The Astrophysical Journal. 865 (2): 12. arXiv:1808.03410. Bibcode:2018ApJ...865..125T. doi:10.3847/1538-4357/aad9fe. S2CID 119244164. 125.
^ Maciejewski, Witold (September 2006). "Response of the integrals in the Tremaine-Weinberg method to multiple pattern speeds: a counter-rotating inner bar in NGC 2950?". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 371 (1): 451–458. arXiv:astro-ph/0602520. Bibcode:2006MNRAS.371..451M. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2966.2006.10679.x. S2CID 16623123.
^ Maciejewski, W. (October 2008). Funes, José G.; J., S.; Corsini, Enrico Maria (eds.). Orbits in Corotating and Counterrotating Double Bars. Proceedings of the conference held 1-5 October, 2007 at the Centro Convegni Matteo Ricci, Rome, Italy. Formation and Evolution of Galaxy Disks ASP Conference Series. Vol. 396. San Francisco: Astronomical Society of the Pacific. p. 367. arXiv:0801.1471. Bibcode:2008ASPC..396..367M.