3C 371 | |
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Observation data ( Epoch J2000) | |
Constellation | Draco |
Right ascension | 18h 06m 50.681s [1] |
Declination | +69° 49′ 28.11″ [1] |
Redshift | 0.051 [1] [2] |
Distance | 730 million
light-years 224 M pc [3] |
Type |
BL Lac
[1]
[2]
[3] FRI RG [4] |
Apparent magnitude (V) | 14.4 [2] ±1.5 [5] |
Other designations | |
UGC 11130, PGC 61417, 2E 4023, 7C 180717.90+694858.00, QSO B1807+698 [1] | |
See also: Quasar, List of quasars |
3C 371 is a BL Lac object [1] [2] located in the constellation Draco. With a redshift of 0.051, [2] this active galaxy is about 730 million light-years away. [3]
3C 371 is a well known object, first associated with the BL Lac class by Miller in 1975, [4] and is among the nearest and brightest BL Lacs. [4] Optical jet emission from 3C 371 was first detected in ground-based images by Nilsson et al. in 1997, and confirmed with HST (Scarpa et al.) in 1999. [4] The implied viewing angle may be less than 18 degrees. [4] But no superluminal motion has been detected, despite frequent monitoring by the Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA). [4]
There are photos of this object dating back to 1895, and they suggest that this objects magnitude can vary by ±1.5. [5]
3C 371 | |
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Observation data ( Epoch J2000) | |
Constellation | Draco |
Right ascension | 18h 06m 50.681s [1] |
Declination | +69° 49′ 28.11″ [1] |
Redshift | 0.051 [1] [2] |
Distance | 730 million
light-years 224 M pc [3] |
Type |
BL Lac
[1]
[2]
[3] FRI RG [4] |
Apparent magnitude (V) | 14.4 [2] ±1.5 [5] |
Other designations | |
UGC 11130, PGC 61417, 2E 4023, 7C 180717.90+694858.00, QSO B1807+698 [1] | |
See also: Quasar, List of quasars |
3C 371 is a BL Lac object [1] [2] located in the constellation Draco. With a redshift of 0.051, [2] this active galaxy is about 730 million light-years away. [3]
3C 371 is a well known object, first associated with the BL Lac class by Miller in 1975, [4] and is among the nearest and brightest BL Lacs. [4] Optical jet emission from 3C 371 was first detected in ground-based images by Nilsson et al. in 1997, and confirmed with HST (Scarpa et al.) in 1999. [4] The implied viewing angle may be less than 18 degrees. [4] But no superluminal motion has been detected, despite frequent monitoring by the Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA). [4]
There are photos of this object dating back to 1895, and they suggest that this objects magnitude can vary by ±1.5. [5]