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Radio Activity in Bright E/SO Galaxies: NGC 3894

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 August 2017

J. M. Wrobel*
Affiliation:
Owens Valley Radio Observatory California Institute of Technology

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NGC 3894 is a 13th magnitude E/SO galaxy (de Vaucouleurs, de Vaucouleurs & Corwin 1976; Nilson 1973) whose recession velocity (Kelton 1980) implies a distance of 44 Mpc if Ho=75 km s−1Mpc−1. The radio emission from NGC 3894 is compact-core-dominated and, as shown in Fig. 1, this compact core is surrounded at 1.5 GHz by weak diffuse emission with a characteristic size of ~2 arcmin (26 kpc) (Wrobel & Heeschen 1983). If the compact core radiates isotropically, then its radio luminosity is ~1040 erg s−1.

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Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1984 

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