Dwarf Galaxy NGC 3664

A collection of radio and optical images of NGC 3664 (galaxy on the top) and its dwarf companion NGC 3664A (blob at the bottom). NGC 3664 is a peculiar barred dwarf spiral, also known as Arp 5. Its optical morphology reveals a single spiral arm emerging from the end of an optical bar. Clockwise (from the upper left panel) are the distribution of total atomic hydrogen (HI) (contours and greyscales); the velocity distribution of the HI contoured on a greyscale of the total HI map; color-coded HI velocity field (red indicates gas which is moving away from us, blue indicates gas that is moving towards us); and the total HI map contoured upon an optical image taked from the Digital Sky Survey.

Contour levels on the total HI maps are 0.4, 0.8, 1.6, 3.2, 6.4, and 12.8 x 10²⁰ cm^-2. The gray scales in the first two panels are in units of 10²⁰ cm^-2. The color-coded velocity scale in panel 3 is in units of kilometers per second.

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Legacy Astronomical Image

NGC3664

E. M. Wilcots, M. K. Prescott

Very Large Array (VLA)

DSS

2002-00-00

spectral line

21 cm

1420.4 MHz

HI

RA 11:24:25.050, Dec: 3:19:33.800 (J2000)

0.300000 x 0.300000 degrees

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Galaxies Series

Dwarf Unit