Issue |
A&A
Volume 390, Number 3, August II 2002
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Page(s) | L15 - L18 | |
Section | Letters | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20020476 | |
Published online | 14 August 2002 |
Letter to the Editor
Two emission line objects with in the optical filament apparently connecting the Seyfert galaxy NGC 7603 to its companion
1
Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias, 38200 La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain
2
Astronomisches Institut der Universität Basel, Venusstrasse 7, 4102 Binningen, Switzerland
Corresponding author: M. López-Corredoira, martinlc@astro.unibas.ch
Received:
24
January
2002
Accepted:
26
March
2002
We present new spectroscopic observations of an old case of anomalous redshift – NGC 7603 and its companion. The redshifts of the two galaxies which are apparently connected by a luminous filament are and respectively. We show that in the luminous filament there are two compact emission line objects with and . They lie exactly on the line traced by the filament connecting the galaxies. As far as we are aware, this is the most impressive case of a system of anomalous redshifts discovered so far.
Key words: galaxies: individual: NGC 7603 / quasars: general / galaxies: statistics / galaxies: peculiar / distance scale
© ESO, 2002
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