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Table 1
Basic properties of NGC 891.
| Property | Value | Reference |
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| RA (J2000) |
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NEDa |
| Dec (J2000) | + |
NED |
| Hubble type | SA(s)b | de Vaucouleurs et al. (1976) |
| Distance | 9.6 Mpc | Strickland et al. (2004) |
| Optical major axis | 13.5 arcmin | de Vaucouleurs et al. (1991) |
| Optical minor axis | 2.5 arcmin | de Vaucouleurs et al. (1991) |
| Major axis angle | 22° | NED |
| Inclination angle | 89° | Xilouris et al. (1998) |
| B-band luminosity | 7.8 ×109L⊙ | de Vaucouleurs et al. (1991) |
| Rotational velocity | 225 km s-1 | van der Kruit (1984) |
| Total mass | 1.4 ×1011 M⊙ | Oosterloo et al. (2007) |
| SFR | 3.8 M⊙ yr-1 | Popescu et al. (2004) |
Notes.
(a)
The NASA Extragalactic Database (NED) is available online at http://nedwww.ipac.caltech.edu/
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