View source for 3C 109

{{short description|Seyfert galaxy located in the constellation Taurus}}
{{Infobox galaxy
  | name = [[Third Cambridge Catalogue of Radio Sources|3C]] 109
  | image =3C 109 NVAS 1.49I4.81 SPAN 1982AUG15 1 15.3M2.74M.jpg
  | epoch = [[J2000]]
  | ra = {{RA|04|13|40.20}}<ref name="ned">{{cite web
  | title=NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database
  | work=Results for QSO B0410+110
  | url=http://nedwww.ipac.caltech.edu/
  | access-date=2006-10-26 }}</ref>
  | dec = {{DEC|+11|12|22.0}}<ref name="ned" />
  | constellation name = [[Taurus (constellation)|Taurus]]
  | z = 0.306
  | type = E<ref name="ned" />
  | dist_ly = 
  | appmag_v = 18.0
  | size_v = 
  | notes = 
  | names = [[Lyon-Meudon Extragalactic Database|LEDA]] 2817533, [[Fourth Cambridge Survey|4C]] 11.18, PKS 0410+11
}}

'''3C 109''' is a [[Seyfert galaxy]] located in the [[constellation]] [[Taurus (constellation)|Taurus]].<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Allen |first1=S. W. |last2=Fabian |first2=A. C. |title=3C 109: an obscured X-ray luminous quasar? |journal=Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society |volume=258 |issue=1 |pages=29p–32p |year=1992 |doi=10.1093/mnras/258.1.29P |url=https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/258/1/29P/967281 |access-date=April 21, 2022|doi-access=free |bibcode=1992MNRAS.258P..29A }}</ref> It is also a broad-line [[radio galaxy]],<ref>{{Cite journal |title=Rudy, Puetter, & Mazuk, Reddening of 3C 109 |url=https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1086/300980/fulltext/990113.text.html |access-date=2024-08-07 |website=iopscience.iop.org |doi=10.1086/300980|url-access=subscription }}</ref> classified as one of the most active polarized galaxies apart from [[blazar]]s<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Goodrich |first1=Robert W. |last2=Cohen |first2=Marshall H. |date=1992-06-01 |title=Polarization in the Radio Galaxy 3C 109---An Obscured Quasar |url=https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1992ApJ...391..623G |journal=The Astrophysical Journal |volume=391 |pages=623 |doi=10.1086/171376 |bibcode=1992ApJ...391..623G |issn=0004-637X}}</ref> with quasar-like properties.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Allen |first1=S. W. |last2=Fabian |first2=A. C. |last3=Idesawa |first3=E. |last4=Inoue |first4=H. |last5=Kii |first5=T. |last6=Otani |first6=C. |date=1997-04-11 |title=The ASCA X-ray spectrum of the powerful radio galaxy 3C 109 |journal=Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society |volume=286 |issue=3 |pages=765–770 |doi=10.1093/mnras/286.3.765 |doi-access=free |issn=0035-8711|arxiv=astro-ph/9701033 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |title=3C 109: an obscured X-ray luminous quasar? |journal=Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society|bibcode=1992MNRAS.258P..29A |last1=Allen |first1=S. W. |last2=Fabian |first2=A. C. |date=1992 |volume=258 |pages=29P–32P |doi=10.1093/mnras/258.1.29P |doi-access=free }}</ref> The [[black hole]] in 3C 109 is said to have an estimated mass of 9.3 x 10<sup>8</sup> {{solar mass}}.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Chalise |first1=Sulov |last2=Lohfink |first2=Anne M. |last3=Kara |first3=Erin |last4=Fabian |first4=Andy C. |date=2020-07-01 |title=Broad-band X-ray observation of broad-line radio galaxy 3C 109 |journal=The Astrophysical Journal |volume=897 |issue=1 |pages=47 |doi=10.3847/1538-4357/ab94a2 |doi-access=free |arxiv=2005.09077 |bibcode=2020ApJ...897...47C |issn=0004-637X}}</ref>

==See also==
* [[Lists of galaxies]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
*  [http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/simbad/sim-id?protocol=html&Ident=QSO+B0410%2B110&NbIdent=1&Radius=2&Radius.unit=arcmin&submit=submit+id Simbad]
*  [http://www.jb.man.ac.uk/atlas/object/3C109.html www.jb.man.ac.uk/atlas/]
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[[Category:Seyfert galaxies]]
[[Category:Taurus (constellation)]]
[[Category:3C objects|109]]
[[Category:LEDA objects|2817533]]
[[Category:4C objects|11.18]]
[[Category:Radio galaxies]]


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