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Table 1

M 51 source description.

Property Value
Name NGC 5194 (M 51)
RA (J2000) (a) 13h29m52s.7
Dec (J2000) (a) 47° 11’ 43”
i (b) 22°
PA (c) 172°
3.9’
D(e) 8.6 Mpc
456.2kms–1
Metallicity(g) [12 + log(O/H)] 8.55
Morphology(h) SAbc
<∑SFR> (i) 20 × 10−3 M yr–1 kpc–2
log10(M/M)(j) 10.5

Notes. (a)Coordinates of the centre of the galaxy adopted from the NASA Extragalactic Database (NED) from Shetty et al. (2007). (b)Inclination of the galaxy with respect to the plane of the sky from Colombo et al. (2014). (c)Position angle of the galaxy. (d)25th magnitude isophote radius of the B-band taken from the Extragalactic Distance Database (EDD; Tully et al. 2009). (e)Distance to the galaxy from McQuinn et al. (2016). (f)Heliocentric systemic velocity from Walter et al. (2008). (g)Metallicity averaged across the full galaxy from Moustakas et al. (2010). (h)Morphological type as given in Leroy et al. (2013). Adopted from Dale et al. (2009). (i)The average SFR surface density within 0.75r25. (j)Integrated stellar mass derived from 3.6 μm emission.

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