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A Neutral Hydrogen Cloud in the Vicinity of the Elliptical Galaxy NGC 4318

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 August 2017

L. Bottinelli
Affiliation:
Observatoire de Paris, section de Meudon, 92195 Meudon Cedex, France
D. Fraix-Burnet
Affiliation:
Observatoire de Paris, section de Meudon, 92195 Meudon Cedex, France
L. Gouguenheim
Affiliation:
Observatoire de Paris, section de Meudon, 92195 Meudon Cedex, France

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NGC 4318, in the Virgo Cluster, has the following optical properties:

  1. morphological type: E (Nilson, 1973)

  2. BoT magnitude : 13.8 (Nilson, 1973)

  3. photometric axis : 0.8′ × 0.6′ (Nilson, 1973)

  4. heliocentric radial velocity:

    • −300 km s−1 (Arakelian et al., 1975)

    • 1247± 15 km s (Tonry, 1981)

    • 1215 km s−1 (Huchra et al., 1983)

Type
II. Large Scale Processes of Star Formation
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1987 

References

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Lake, G., Schommer, R.A. 1984 Astrophys. J. 280, 107 Google Scholar
Nilson, P. 1973 Uppsala General Catalogue Uppsala Astron. Obs. Ann. 6 Google Scholar
Tonry, J.L. 1981 Astrophys. J. 251, L1 Google Scholar