View source for 3C 223

{{Short description|Galaxy in the constellation Leo Minor}}

{{Quasar
 | name = [[Third Cambridge Catalogue of Radio Sources|3C]] 223
 | image = File:SDSS image of 3C 223.jpg
 | epoch = [[J2000]]
 | ra = {{RA|09|39|52.761}}<ref name=SIMBAD/>
 | dec = {{DEC|+35|53|58.91}}<ref name=SIMBAD/>
 | constellation name = [[Leo Minor]]
 | z = 0.136730<ref name="ned"/>
 | type = Sy2, Rad, AGN, G, QSO, X, gam<ref name=SIMBAD/><br>G<ref name="ned"/>
 | dist_ly = {{convert|549|Mpc|e9ly|abbr=unit|lk=on}} {{hub|0.73|link=yes}}<ref name=ned>{{cite web
 |website=NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database
 |title=NED results for object 3C 223
 |url=http://nedwww.ipac.caltech.edu/cgi-bin/nph-objsearch?objname=3C+223&extend=no
 |access-date=2 June 2015 }}</ref>
 | appmag_v = 18.60<ref name=SIMBAD/>
 | size_v = 
 | notes = 
 | names = [[List of astronomical catalogues#D|DA]] 269, [[Lyon-Meudon Extragalactic Database|LEDA]] 27575, [[Fourth Cambridge Survey|4C]] 36.16, [[Quasar|QSO]] B0936+361
|caption=The galaxy 3C 223.}}

'''3C 223''' is a [[Seyfert galaxy]]<ref name=SIMBAD>{{cite web |url=http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/simbad/sim-id?Ident=3C+223 |title=Query : 3C 223 |website=Simbad |publisher=[[Centre de Données astronomiques de Strasbourg]] |access-date=2 June 2015}}</ref> located in the constellation of [[Leo Minor]]. It hosts a Type 2 [[quasar]] nucleus, found to be radio-loud with a rare, Compton-thick [[active galactic nucleus]].<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=LaMassa |first1=Stephanie M. |last2=Yaqoob |first2=Tahir |last3=Tzanavaris |first3=Panayiotis |last4=Gandhi |first4=Poshak |last5=Heckman |first5=Timothy |last6=Lansbury |first6=George |last7=Siemiginowska |first7=Aneta |date=2023-02-01 |title=The Complex X-ray Obscuration Environment in the Radio Loud Type 2 Quasar 3C 223 |journal=The Astrophysical Journal |volume=944 |issue=2 |pages=152 |doi=10.3847/1538-4357/acb3bb |doi-access=free |arxiv=2301.07193 |bibcode=2023ApJ...944..152L |issn=0004-637X}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last1=LaMassa |first1=Stephanie |last2=Yaqoob |first2=Tahir |last3=Tzanavaris |first3=Panayiotis |last4=Gandhi |first4=Poshak |last5=Heckman |first5=Timothy |last6=Lansbury |first6=George |last7=Siemiginowska |first7=Aneta |date=2023-01-01 |title=Exploring the Complex X-ray Spectrum of Radio Loud Type 2 AGN 3C 223 |journal=American Astronomical Society Meeting Abstracts |url=https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2023AAS...24141806L |volume=241 |pages=418.06|bibcode=2023AAS...24141806L }}</ref> 

3C 223 is also a [[radio galaxy]].<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Hogbom |first=J. A. |date=1979-05-01 |title=A study of the radio galaxies 3C 111, 192, 219, 223, 315 and 452. |url=https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1979A&AS...36..173H |journal=Astronomy and Astrophysics Supplement Series |volume=36 |pages=173–192 |bibcode=1979A&AS...36..173H |issn=0365-0138}}</ref> With a projected size of ≥1 megaparsecs, it is classified a giant [[Astronomical radio source|radio source]] according to researchers who presented [[Very Large Array]] images. Based on spectral study results, the source of 3C 223 is found to be younger.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Orrù |first1=E. |last2=Murgia |first2=M. |last3=Feretti |first3=L. |last4=Govoni |first4=F. |last5=Giovannini |first5=G. |last6=Lane |first6=W. |last7=Kassim |first7=N. |last8=Paladino |first8=R. |date=2010-06-01 |title=Low-frequency study of two giant radio galaxies: 3C 35 and 3C 223 |url=https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2010/07/aa13837-09/aa13837-09.html |journal=Astronomy & Astrophysics |language=en |volume=515 |pages=A50 |doi=10.1051/0004-6361/200913837 |arxiv=1003.0623 |bibcode=2010A&A...515A..50O |issn=0004-6361}}</ref>

== Gallery ==
<gallery>
File:3C 223 VLA firstimage.gif|3C 223 by [[Faint Images of the Radio Sky at Twenty-Centimeters]]
File:3C 223 NVAS 1.55I3.74 AB0376 1986AUG18 1 1.49M4.26M.jpg|3C 223 observed in radiowaves
</gallery>

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* [http://www.jb.man.ac.uk/atlas/object/3C223.html www.jb.man.ac.uk/atlas/] (J. P. Leahy)
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[[Category:Quasars|3C 223]]
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