View source for NGC 5676

{{Short description|Galaxy in the constellation Boötes}}
{{Infobox Galaxy
| name = NGC 5676
| image = [[File:NGC5676 - SDSS DR14.jpg|250px]]
| alt = NGC 5676
| caption = [[Sloan Digital Sky Survey|SDSS]] image of NGC 5676
| epoch = [[J2000]]
| constellation name = [[Boötes (constellation)|Boötes]]<ref name="sinnott1988">{{cite book
| editor=R. W. Sinnott
| title= The Complete New General Catalogue and Index Catalogue of Nebulae and Star Clusters by J. L. E. Dreyer
| date=1988
| publisher=Sky Publishing Corporation and Cambridge University Press
| isbn=978-0-933346-51-2}}</ref>
| ra = {{RA|14|32|46.8}}<ref name="ned">{{cite web
| title=NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database
| work=Results for NGC 5676
| url=http://nedwww.ipac.caltech.edu/
| access-date=2007-07-13}}</ref>
| dec = {{DEC|+49|27|28}}<ref name="ned" />
| z = 2114 ± 5 km/[[second|s]]<ref name="ned" />
| dist_ly =100 [[Light-year|Mly]]<br>(30.8 [[parsec|Mpc]])
| type = SA(rs)bc<ref name="ned" />
| appmag_v = 12.3<ref name="ned" />
| size_v = 4.0{{prime}} × 1.1{{prime}} <ref name="ned" />
| notes = Paired with [[NGC 5660]].
| names = [[Uppsala General Catalogue|UGC]] 9366,<ref name="ned" /> [[Principal Galaxies Catalogue|PGC]] 51978,<ref name="ned" /> [[Morphological Catalogue of Galaxies|MCG]]+08-26-043, [[List of astronomical catalogues#H|H]] I-189, h 1842, [[Boss General Catalogue|GC]] 3935, [[Catalogue of Galaxies and of Clusters of Galaxies|CGCG]] 247.042, [[Catalogue of Galaxies and of Clusters of Galaxies|CGCG]] 248.003, [[Kiso Survey for Ultraviolet-excess Galaxies|KUG]] 1431+496, [[Lyons Groups of Galaxies|LGG]] 384-005<ref name="ned" />
}}
'''NGC 5676''' is an [[unbarred spiral galaxy|unbarred]] [[spiral galaxy]] in the [[constellation]] [[Boötes (constellation)|Boötes]].
==Disk==
This spiral galaxy is notably asymmetric.  The [[spiral arm]]s on the south side of the galaxy are chaotic in appearance, whereas the spiral arms on the north side of the galaxy are very well-defined.  Also, the spiral arms on the south side of the disk extend twice as far from the galaxy's [[galaxy nucleus|nucleus]] as the spiral arms on the north side.<ref name="carnegieatlas" >{{cite book
| author=A. Sandage
| author2=J. Bedke
| date=1994
| title=Carnegie Atlas of Galaxies
| publisher=[[Carnegie Institution of Washington]]
| location=Washington, D.C.
| isbn=978-0-87279-667-6}}</ref>  Because of the fragmentary appearance of some of the spiral arms, this galaxy is classified as a [[flocculent galaxy]].<ref name="elmegreenelmegreen1987">{{cite journal
| author=D. M. Elmegreen|author-link1=Debra Elmegreen
| author2=B. G. Elmegreen|author-link2=Bruce Elmegreen
| title=Arm classifications for spiral galaxies
| journal=Astrophysical Journal
| date=1987
| volume=314
| pages=3–9
| bibcode=1987ApJ...314....3E
| doi=10.1086/165034}}</ref>
==Star formation==
The north part of the disk also contains what appears to be a very intense region of [[star formation]].<ref name="bendojoseph2004">{{cite journal
| author= G. J. Bendo
| author2= R. D. Joseph
| title=Nuclear Stellar Populations in the Infrared Space Observatory Atlas of Bright Spiral Galaxies
| journal=Astronomical Journal
| date=2004
| volume=127
| issue= 6
| pages=3338–3360
| bibcode=2004AJ....127.3338B
| doi=10.1086/420712|arxiv = astro-ph/0403133 | s2cid= 14169689
}}</ref>  Unusually, the star formation within this region appears to be more intense than the star formation in the galaxy's nucleus,<ref name="bendojoseph2004"/> and it is the brightest [[infrared]] source within the disk.<ref name="bendoetal2002">{{cite journal
| author=G. J. Bendo
| display-authors=4
| author2=R. D. Joseph
| author3=M. Wells
| author4=P. Gallais
| author5= M. Haas
| author6= A. M. Heras
| author7= U. Klaas
| author8= R. J. Laureijs
| author9= K. Leech
| author10= D. Lemke
| author11= L. Metcalfe
| author12= M. Rowan-Robinson
| author13= B. Schulz
| author14= C. Telesco
| title=An Infrared Space Observatory Atlas of Bright Spiral Galaxies
| journal=Astronomical Journal
| date=2002
| volume=123
| issue=6
| pages=3067–3107
| bibcode=2002AJ....123.3067B
| doi=10.1086/340083| doi-access=free
}}</ref>
==References==
{{reflist}}
==External links==
{{commonscat}}
* [http://www.freewebs.com/ebenson/ngc5676.htm www.freewebs.com/]
* [http://aladin.u-strasbg.fr/AladinPreview?-c=14+32+47.18%2B49+27+28.6&ident=NGC++5676&submit=Aladin+previewer Image NGC 5676]
*{{WikiSky}}
{| border="0" width="50%" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" style="float:left; margin-right:0.5em; background:#CDC9C9;"
! colspan="1" | '''Database references'''
|- bgcolor="#FFFAFA"
|  '''Simbad''' || '' [http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/simbad/sim-id?Ident=NGC+5676&NbIdent=1&Radius=2&Radius.unit=arcmin&submit=submit+id data] ''
|}
{{Sky|14|32|46.8|+|49|27|28|100000000}}
{{Ngc60}}
{{Boötes}}
[[Category:Unbarred spiral galaxies|NGC 5676]]
[[Category:Boötes]]
[[Category:NGC objects|5676]]
[[Category:UGC objects|09366]]
[[Category:Principal Galaxies Catalogue objects|51978]]