Field galaxy

A field galaxy is a galaxy that does not belong to a larger galaxy group or cluster and hence is gravitationally alone.

Roughly 80% of all galaxies located within 5 Mpc (16 Mly) of the Milky Way are in groups or clusters of galaxies.^[1] Most low-surface-brightness galaxies are field galaxies.^[2] The median Hubble-type of field galaxies is Sb, a type of spiral galaxy.^[3]

List of field galaxies

A list of nearby relatively bright field galaxies within the Local Volume, about 10 Mpc (33 Mly)^[4]

Galaxy	Type	Size	Constellation	RA	DEC	Distance	Notes
NGC 404	SA(s)0		Andromeda	01h 09m 27.0s	+35° 43′ 04″	11.2 Mly (3.4 Mpc)		[4]
NGC 1313	SB(s)d		Reticulum	03h 18m 15.4s	−66° 29′ 50″	12.89 Mly (3.95 Mpc)	Nicknamed the "Topsy Turvy Galaxy" due to its uneven shape	[4]
NGC 2188	Sm		Columba	06h 10m 09.7s	−34° 06′ 50″	27.5 Mly (8.4 Mpc)		[4]
NGC 2683	Sc		Lynx	08h 52m 41.3s	+33° 25′ 18″	32.9 Mly (10.1 Mpc)		[4]
NGC 2903	SBbc		Leo	09h 32m 10.1s	+21° 30′ 03″	30.6 Mly (9.4 Mpc)		[4]
NGC 3115	S0		Sextans	10h 05m 14.0s	−7° 43′ 07″	31.6 Mly (9.7 Mpc)		[4]
NGC 3621	SA(s)d		Hydra	11h 18m 16.5s	–32° 48′ 51″	21.7 Mly (6.7 Mpc)		[4]
NGC 4136	SABc		Coma Berenices	12h 09m 17.7s	+29° 55′ 39″	40.9 Mly (12.5 Mpc)		[4]
NGC 4605	SB(s)c		Ursa Major	12h 39m 59.4s	+61° 36′ 33″	15.3 Mly (4.7 Mpc)		[4]
NGC 5068	SAB(rs)cd		Virgo	13h 18m 54.8s	−21° 02′ 21″	19.8 Mly (6.1 Mpc)		[4]
NGC 6503	SA(s)cd LINER	30 kly (9.2 kpc)	Draco	17h 49m 26.514s	+70° 08′ 39.63″	18.5 Mly (5.7 Mpc)	Also called the "Lost-In-Space galaxy" due to its location next to the Local Void.	[4][5][6][7]

See also

• Void galaxy

Further reading

• Piero Madau; Lucia Pozzetti; Mark Dickinson (1998). "The Star Formation History of Field Galaxies". The Astrophysical Journal. 498 (1) (published May 1998): 106–116. arXiv:astro-ph/9708220. Bibcode:1998ApJ...498..106M. doi:10.1086/305523. S2CID 499769.^[8]
• David R. Silva; Gregory D. Bothun (July 1998). "The Ages of Disturbed Field Elliptical Galaxies. I. Global Properties". The Astronomical Journal. 116 (1): 85. Bibcode:1998AJ....116...85S. doi:10.1086/300394.
• David R. Silva; Gregory D. Bothun (December 1998). "The Ages of Disturbed Field Elliptical Galaxies. II. Central Properties". The Astronomical Journal. 116 (6): 2793. Bibcode:1998AJ....116.2793S. doi:10.1086/300642. S2CID 47632172.
• Pieter G. van Dokkum (27 June 2005). "The Recent and Continuing Assembly of Field Ellipticals by Red Mergers". The Astronomical Journal. 130 (6) (published December 2005): 2647–2665. arXiv:astro-ph/0506661. Bibcode:2005AJ....130.2647V. doi:10.1086/497593. S2CID 250814170.^[3]
• Anatoly Klypin; Igor Karachentsev; Dmitry Makarov; Olga Nasonova (18 May 2014). "Abundance of Field Galaxies". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 454 (2): 1798–1810. arXiv:1405.4523. Bibcode:2015MNRAS.454.1798K. doi:10.1093/mnras/stv2040.