ESO 383-76
Elliptical galaxy in the constellation Centaurus / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
ESO 383-76 (ESO 383-G 076) is an elongated, X-ray luminous supergiant elliptical galaxy, residing as the dominant, brightest cluster galaxy (BCG) of the Abell 3571 galaxy cluster, the sixth-brightest in the sky at X-ray wavelengths.[3] It is located at the distance of 200.6 megaparsecs (654 million light-years) from Earth, and is possibly a member of the large Shapley Supercluster. With a diameter of about 540.89 kiloparsecs (1.76 million light-years), it is one of the largest galaxies known.
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ESO 383-G 076 | |
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Observation data (J2000.0 epoch) | |
Constellation | Centaurus |
Right ascension | 13h 47m 28.38s[1] |
Declination | −32° 51′ 53.9″[1] |
Redshift | 0.03858±0.00003[1] |
Heliocentric radial velocity | 11,567±9.3 km/s[1] |
Galactocentric velocity | 11435±11 km/s[1] |
Distance | 200.59 ± 14.12 megaparsecs (654.2 ± 46.05 million light-years)h−1 0.6774[1][lower-alpha 1] |
Group or cluster | Abell 3571 |
Apparent magnitude (V) | 11.252 |
Characteristics | |
Type | cD5; E5; BrClG |
Mass | 2.15×1012[2] M☉ |
Size | 540.89 kiloparsecs (1,760,000 light-years) (diameter; 90% total B-light)[1] 136.9 kiloparsecs (447,000 light-years) (diameter; 25.0 mag/arcsec2 B-band isophote)[lower-alpha 2] |
Notable features | Supergiant elliptical galaxy; luminous X-ray source |
Other designations | |
ESO 383- G 076; ESO 134436-3237.0; AM 1344-323; MCG -05-33-002; WISEA J134728.38-325154.0; 2MASX J13472838-3251540; 2MASS J13472837-3251536; PGC 48896 Abell 3571 001; Abell 3571 BCG; Abell 3571 cD |
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