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词条 NGC 4151
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  1. X-ray source

  2. See also

  3. References

  4. External links

{{Infobox Galaxy
| name = NGC 4151
| image = NGC4151 Galaxy from the Mount Lemmon SkyCenter Schulman Telescope courtesy Adam Block.jpg
| image_size = 300px
|caption = Image of NGC 4151 from the 0.8m Schulman Telescope at the Mount Lemmon SkyCenter
| credit= Adam Block
| epoch = J2000
| type = (R')SAB(rs)ab,[1] Sy1[2]
| ra = {{RA|12|10|32.6}}[1]
| dec = {{DEC|+39|24|21}}[1]
| dist_ly = {{convert|19|Mpc|e6ly|abbr=on|lk=off}} [5]
| z = 0.003262[2]
995 ± 3 km/s[1]
| appmag_v = 11.5[1]
| size_v = 6′.4 × 5′.5[1]
| constellation name = Canes Venatici
| notes =
| names = UGC 7166,[1] PGC 38739[1]
}}

NGC 4151 is an intermediate spiral seyfert galaxy with weak inner ring structure located {{convert|19|Mpc|e6ly|abbr=off|lk=on}} from Earth[3] in the constellation Canes Venatici. The galaxy was first mentioned by William Herschel on March 17, 1787; it was one of the two Seyfert galaxies described in the paper [4] which defined the term. It is one of the nearest galaxies to Earth to contain an actively growing supermassive black hole;[5] it was speculated that the nucleus may host a binary black hole, with about 40 million and about 10 million solar masses respectively, orbiting with a 15.8-year period.[6] This is, however, still a matter of active debate.

Some astronomers nickname it the "Eye of Sauron" from its appearance.[7]

X-ray source

X-ray emission from NGC 4151 was apparently first detected on December 24, 1970, with the X-ray observatory satellite Uhuru,[8] although the observation spanned an error-box of 0.56 square degrees and there is some controversy as to whether UHURU might not have detected the BL Lac object 1E 1207.9 +3945, which is inside their error box - the later HEAO 1 detected an X-ray source of NGC 4151 at 1H 1210+393,[9] coincident with the optical position of the nucleus and outside the error box of Uhuru.[8]

To explain the X-ray emission two different possibilities have been proposed:[10]

  • radiation of material falling onto the central black hole (which was growing much more quickly about 25,000 years ago) was so bright that it stripped electrons away from the atoms in the gas in its path, and then electrons recombined with these ionized atoms
  • the energy released by material flowing into the black hole in an accretion disk created a vigorous outflow of gas from the surface of the disk, which directly heated gas in its path to X-ray emitting temperatures
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See also

  • X-ray astronomy

References

1. ^{{cite web | publisher= NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database | title= Results for NGC 4151 | url= http://nedwww.ipac.caltech.edu/ | accessdate= 2007-03-27 }}
2. ^{{cite simbad | title= NGC 4151 | access-date= 2014-06-06 }}
3. ^{{cite web |title= 'Eye of Sauron' Provides New Way of Measuring Distances to Galaxies |url= http://www.keckobservatory.org/recent/entry/eye_of_sauron_provides_new_way_of_measuring_distances_to_galaxies |accessdate= 2014-11-27 |date= 2014-11-26 |publisher= W. M. Keck Observatory |author= W. M. Keck Observatory }}
4. ^{{cite journal | author=C. K. Seyfert | title=Nuclear Emission in Spiral Nebulae | journal=Astrophysical Journal | date=1943 | volume=97 | pages=28–40 | bibcode=1943ApJ....97...28S | doi=10.1086/144488}}
5. ^{{cite web|title=NGC 4151: An active black hole in the "Eye of Sauron"|url=http://www.astronomy.com/News-Observing/News/2011/03/NGC%204151%20active%20black%20hole%20in%20the%20Eye%20of%20Sauron.aspx|publisher=Astronomy magazine|accessdate=2011-03-14|date=2011-03-11}}
6. ^{{Cite journal| arxiv=1209.4524 | display-authors=4 | author1=Bon | author2=Jovanović | author3=Marziani | author4=Shapovalova | author5=Bon | author6=Borka Jovanović | author7=Borka | author8=Sulentic | author9=Popović | title=The First Spectroscopically Resolved Sub-parsec Orbit of a Supermassive Binary Black Hole | journal=The Astrophysical Journal | volume=759 | issue=2 | pages=118–125 | date=2012| doi=10.1088/0004-637X/759/2/118 |bibcode = 2012ApJ...759..118B }}
7. ^{{cite web |url= http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2011/n4151/ |title= NGC 4151: An Active Black Hole in the "Eye of Sauron" |publisher= Chandra X-ray Center |author= Chandra X-ray Observatory |date= 10 March 2011 }}
8. ^{{cite journal |author=Gursky H |display-authors=4 |author2=Kellogg EM |author3= Leong C |author4=Tananbaum H |author5=Giacconi R |title=Detection of X-Rays from the Seyfert Galaxies NGC 1275 and NGC 4151 by the UHURU Satellite |journal=Astrophys J |date=Apr 1971 |volume=165 |issue=4 |pages=L43–8 |bibcode=1971ApJ...165L..43G |doi=10.1086/180713 }}
9. ^{{cite journal |doi=10.1086/190992 |author=Wood KS |display-authors=4 |author2=Meekins JF |author3=Yentis DJ |author4=Smathers HW |author5=McNutt DP |author6=Bleach RD |title=The HEAO A-1 X-ray source catalog |journal=Astrophys. J. Suppl. Ser. |date=December 1984 |volume=56 |issue=12 |pages=507–649 |bibcode=1984ApJS...56..507W }}
10. ^{{cite web |title= The 'Eye of Sauron' |url= http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/chandra/multimedia/11-029.html |accessdate= 2011-03-14 |date= 2011-03-10 |publisher= NASA |author= Chandra X-Ray Observatory }}

External links

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  • Hubble site news center: Fireworks Near a Black Hole in the Core of Seyfert Galaxy NGC 4151
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