Atomic Gas in the Shell Galaxy NGC 2865
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VLA atomic hydrogen observations of the shell galaxy NGC 2865. The gas is shown as yellow contours on an optical image from the Digital Sky Survey. The main body of the NGC 2865 is typical of early type galaxies, but at fainter light levels the galaxy exhibits a peculiar morphology, with many shells, ripples and loops. The VLA spectral line observations shows gas within the main body of the elliptical, but also distributed in an extended ring around it.

Investigator(s):  D. Schiminovich, J. van Gorkom, J. H., J. van der Hulst & D. Malin. Composite image by J. Hibbard

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Technical Data

    Telescope VLA 
    Date of Observation 1993-10-11 
    Type of Observation Spectral Line Observations 
    Wavelength 21 cm 
    Frequency 1420.4 MHz 
    Species HI 
    Center of Image RA: 09:23:36.60, Dec: -23:10:20.00 (J2000)  
    Field of View 0.1667 x 0.2000 degrees  
    Technical Caption Radio data are VLA B and C-array observations at 20" resolution. HI contours start at a level of 3x1019 atoms cm-2, with successive contours a factor of two higher.  

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