Messier 107
Messier 107 | |
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Klotformiga stjärnhopen Messier 107 fotograferad av rymdteleskopet Hubble. | |
Observationsdata | |
Stjärnbild | Ormbäraren |
Rektascension | 16t 32m 31,91s[1] |
Deklination | -13° 03′ 13,1″[2] |
Klass | X[4] |
Avstånd | 20 900 ± (6 400 ± pc)[3] ljusår |
Skenbar storlek | 10[5] bågminuter |
Skenbar magnitud | +8,85[1] |
Fysiska egenskaper | |
Massa | 1,82 x 10 5[3] solmassor |
Uppskattad ålder | 13,06[6] ± miljarder år |
Upptäckt | |
Upptäcktsår | april 1782 |
Upptäckare | Pierre Méchain |
Andra beteckningar | |
M107, NGC 6171, GCl 44,[1] C 1629-129, GC 4211, h 3637, H 6.40 | |
Se också: Klotformiga stjärhopar, Lista över klotformiga stjärhopar |
Messier 107 (M107) även känd som NGC 6171 är en gles klotformig stjärnhop i stjärnbild Ormbäraren 2,5° söder och litet väster om stjärnan Zeta Ophiuchi.[5] Hopen upptäcktes i april 1782 av Pierre Méchain och senare av William Herschel år 1793. Herschels son, John, beskrev den i sin allmänna katalog från 1864 som ett "klotformigt stjärnkluster, stort, mycket rikt, mycket komprimerat, runt, väl löst, tydligt bestående av stjärnor".[5] Det var inte förrän 1947 som Helen Sawyer Hogg lade till den och tre andra objekt, som Méchain upptäckt, i den moderna katalogen, den senare hade bidragit med flera av de föreslagna observationsobjekten som Charles Messier hade verifierat och lagt till.[7]
Egenskaper
Messier 107 ligger nära det galaktiska planet ca 20 900 ljusår från jorden[3] och ca 9 800 ljusår från Vintergatans centrum.[8] Dess omloppsbana går delvis så långt ut som den galaktiska halon, som ligger mellan 9 200 och 12 400 ljusår från centrum, den lägre siffran, "perigalaktiska avståndet" ser den ingå i och lämna den galaktiska staven.[9]
Messier 107 är en stjärnhop av Oosterhoff typ I[10] med en metallicitet på −0,95[6] vilket överensstämmer med huvuddelen av halopopulationen.[8] Det finns 22 kända RR Lyrae variabla stjärnor i hopen och en trolig SX Phoenicis-variabel.[11]
Galleri
Se även
- Messiers katalog - andra Messierobjekt
- NGC
Referenser
- Den här artikeln är helt eller delvis baserad på material från engelskspråkiga Wikipedia, Messier 107, 27 april 2021.
Noter
- ^ [a b c] ”SIMBAD Astronomical Database”. Results for NGC 6171. http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/Simbad. Läst 16 november 2006.
- ^ Goldsbury, Ryan; Richer, Harvey B.; Anderson, Jay; Dotter, Aaron; Sarajedini, Ata; Woodley, Kristin (December 2010), ”The ACS Survey of Galactic Globular Clusters. X. New Determinations of Centers for 65 Clusters”, The Astronomical Journal 140 (6): 1830–1837, doi: , Bibcode: 2010AJ....140.1830G.
- ^ [a b c] Boyles, J.; Lorimer, D. R.; Turk, P. J.; Mnatsakanov, R.; Lynch, R. S.; Ransom, S. M.; Freire, P. C.; Belczynski, K. (November 2011), ”Young Radio Pulsars in Galactic Globular Clusters”, The Astrophysical Journal 742 (1): 51, doi: , Bibcode: 2011ApJ...742...51B.
- ^ Shapley, Harlow; Sawyer, Helen B. (August 1927), ”A Classification of Globular Clusters”, Harvard College Observatory Bulletin 849 (849): 11–14, Bibcode: 1927BHarO.849...11S.
- ^ [a b c] Mullaney, James (2007), The Herschel Objects and How to Observe Them, Astronomers' Observing Guides, Springer Science & Business Media, s. 94, ISBN 978-0387681252, Bibcode: 2007hoho.book.....M, https://books.google.com/books?id=HFg2sOjrFtsC&pg=PA94.
- ^ [a b] Forbes, Duncan A.; Bridges, Terry (May 2010), ”Accreted versus in situ Milky Way globular clusters”, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 404 (3): 1203–1214, doi: , Bibcode: 2010MNRAS.404.1203F.
- ^ Frommert, Hartmut; Kronberg, Christine (August 30, 2007), ”Messier 107”, SEDS Messier pages (Students for the Exploration and Development of Space (SEDS)), http://www.messier.seds.org/m/m107.html, läst 7 december 2018.
- ^ [a b] Zinn, R. (June 15, 1985), ”The globular cluster system of the galaxy. IV - The halo and disk subsystems”, Astrophysical Journal, Part 1 293: 424–444, doi: , Bibcode: 1985ApJ...293..424Z.
- ^ Pichardo, Bárbara; Martos, Marco; Moreno, Edmundo (July 2004), ”Models for the Gravitational Field of the Galactic Bar: An Application to Stellar Orbits in the Galactic Plane and Orbits of Some Globular Clusters”, The Astrophysical Journal 609 (1): 144–165, doi: , Bibcode: 2004ApJ...609..144P.
- ^ Olech, A.; Kaluzny, J.; Thompson, I. B.; Pych, W.; Krzemiński, W.; Schwarzenberg-Czerny, A. (March 2001), ”The Clusters AgeS Experiment (CASE): RR Lyrae variables in the globular cluster NGC 6362”, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 321 (3): 421–432, doi: , Bibcode: 2001MNRAS.321..421O.
- ^ McCombs, Thayne; Reinhart, E.; Murphy, B. W. (January 2013), ”Variable Stars in the Globular Cluster M107: The Discovery of a Probable SX Phoenicis”, AAS Meeting #221, "221", American Astronomical Society, s. 250.22, 250.22, Bibcode: 2013AAS...22125022M.
Externa länkar
- Wikimedia Commons har media som rör Messier 107.
- SEDS - Messier Object 107
- [1] (Zoom auf M 107)
- Messier 107, Galactic Globular Clusters Database page
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Media som används på denna webbplats
Författare/Upphovsman: ESO/ESO Imaging Survey, Licens: CC BY 4.0
The globular cluster Messier 107, also known as NGC 6171, is located about 21 000 light-years away in the constellation of Ophiuchus. Messier 107 is about 13 arcminutes across, which corresponds to about 80 light-years at its distance. As is typical of globular clusters, a population of thousands of old stars in Messier 107 is densely concentrated into a volume that is only about twenty times the distance between our Sun and its nearest stellar neighbour, Alpha Centauri, across. This image was created from exposures taken through blue, green and near-infrared filters, using the Wide Field Imager (WFI) on the MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope at La Silla Observatory, Chile.
Författare/Upphovsman: ESA/Hubble & NASA, Licens: CC BY 3.0
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured a crowd of stars that looks rather like a stadium darkened before a show, lit only by the flashbulbs of the audience’s cameras. Yet the many stars of this object, known as Messier 107, are not a fleeting phenomenon, at least by human reckoning of time — these ancient stars have gleamed for many billions of years.
Messier 107 is one of more than 150 globular star clusters found around the disc of the Milky Way galaxy. These spherical collections each contain hundreds of thousands of extremely old stars and are among the oldest objects in the Milky Way. The origin of globular clusters and their impact on galactic evolution remains somewhat unclear, so astronomers continue to study them through pictures such as this one obtained by Hubble.
As globular clusters go, Messier 107 is not particularly dense. Visually comparing its appearance to other globular clusters, such as Messier 53 or Messier 54 reveals that the stars within Messier 107 are not packed as tightly, thereby making its members more distinct like individual fans in a stadium's stands.
Messier 107 can be found in the constellation of Ophiuchus (The Serpent Bearer) and is located about 20 000 light-years from the Solar System.
French astronomer Pierre Méchain first noted the object in 1782, and British astronomer William Herschel documented it independently a year later. A Canadian astronomer, Helen Sawyer Hogg, added Messier 107 to Charles Messier's famous astronomical catalogue in 1947.
This picture was obtained with the Wide Field Camera of Hubble’s Advanced Camera for Surveys. The field of view is approximately 3.4 by 3.4 arcminutes.