Details on Acronym: NGVS | |
| NGVS | (Next Generation Virgo cluster Survey) |
| Write: | <<NGVS JHHMMSS.ss+DDMMSS.s>> <<NGVS -JHHMMSS.ss+DDMMSS.s>> (not recognised by Simbad, but found in literature) |
| N: | 206 |
| Object: | G (SIMBAD class: Galaxy) |
| Note: | N = 127+50+29 ultra-compact dwarf (UCD) galaxies associated with three proeminent Virgo sub-clusters, centered on the massive red-sequence galaxies M87, M49 and M60 respectively, using CFHT Megam imaging from the Next Generation Virgo cluster Survey (NGVS). |
| in source: | NAME Virgo Cluster |
| in source: | M 87 = NGC 4486 = Virgo A |
| in source: | M 49 = NGC 4472 |
| in source: | M 60 = NGC 4649 |
| Ref: | =2015ApJ...812...34L |
| by | LIU C. , PENG E.W., COTE P., FERRARESE L., JORDAN A., MIHOS J.C., ZHANG H.-X., MUNOZ R.P., PUZIA T.H., LANCON A., GWYN S., CUILLANDRE J.-C., BLAKESLEE J.P., BOSELLI A., DURRELL P.R., DUC P.-A., GUHATHAKURTA P., MACARTHUR L.A., MEI S., SANCHEZ-JANSSEN R., XU H. |
| Astrophys. J., 812, 34 (2015) | |
| The Next Generation Virgo cluster Survey. X. Properties of ultra-compact dwarfs in the M87, M49, and M60 regions. | |
| o | (Erratum) erratum vol. 836, art. 147 (2017) |
| o | Tables 2-7: <NGVS JHHMMSS.ss+DDMMSS.s> N=127+50+29. |
| =E= | Catalogue in electronic form as <J/ApJ/812/34/> |
| Origin | of the Acronym: A = Assigned by the author(s) |