{{Short description|Spiral galaxy in the constellation Draco}} {{Infobox galaxy | name = [[New General Catalogue|NGC]] 5965 | image = NGC 5965 hst 07450 R814GB450.png | image_size = 250px | caption =NGC 5965 by [[Hubble Space Telescope]] | credit = | epoch = [[J2000]] | type = Sb<ref name="ned">{{cite web | title=NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database | work=Results for NGC 5965 | url=http://ned.ipac.caltech.edu/cgi-bin/nph-objsearch?objname=NGC+5965 | access-date=2016-01-18 }}</ref> | ra = {{RA|15|34|02.5}}<ref name="ned" /> | dec = {{DEC|+56|41|08}}<ref name="ned" /> | dist_ly = [[1 E24 m|149]] ± 22 [[light-year|Mly]] (45.7 ± 6.7 [[parsec|Mpc]])<ref name="ned" /> | z = 0.011381 ± 0.000017<ref name="ned" /> | h_radial_v = 3,412 ± 5 [[kilometer|km]]/[[second|s]]<ref name="ned" /> | appmag_v = 11.9<ref name=seds>{{cite web |title=Revised NGC Data for NGC 5965 |url=http://spider.seds.org/ngc/revngcic.cgi?NGC5965 |website=spider.seds.org |access-date=25 November 2018}}</ref> | size_v = 6.16{{prime}} × 0.84{{prime}}<ref name="ned" /> | constellation name = [[Draco (constellation)|Draco]] | notes = | names = [[Uppsala General Catalogue|UGC]] 9914, [[Catalogue of Galaxies and Clusters of Galaxies|CGCG]] 297-016, [[Morphological Catalogue of Galaxies|MCG]] +10-22-020, [[Principal Galaxies Catalogue|PGC]] 55459<ref name="ned" /> }} '''NGC 5965''' is a [[spiral galaxy]] located in the constellation [[Draco (constellation)|Draco]]. It is located at a distance of circa 150 million [[light year]]s from Earth, which, given its apparent dimensions, means that NGC 5965 is about 260,000 light years across. It was discovered by [[William Herschel]] on May 5, 1788.<ref name="Seligman">{{cite web |last1=Seligman |first1=Courtney |title=NGC 5965 (= PGC 55459) |url= http://cseligman.com/text/atlas/ngc59a.htm#5965 |website=Celestial Atlas |access-date=19 November 2018}}</ref>
NGC 5965 is seen nearly edge-on, with an inclination of 80 degrees. Dust is seen across the galactic disk, while there is also a red dust lane at the nucleus.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Peletier |first1=R. F. |last2=Balcells |first2=M. |last3=Davies |first3=R. L. |last4=Andredakis |first4=Y. |last5=Vazdekis |first5=A. |last6=Burkert |first6=A. |last7=Prada |first7=F. |title=Galactic bulges from Hubble Space Telescope NICMOS observations: ages and dust |journal=Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society |date=11 December 1999 |volume=310 |issue=3 |pages=703–716 |doi=10.1046/j.1365-8711.1999.02980.x|doi-access=free |bibcode=1999MNRAS.310..703P |arxiv=astro-ph/9910153 |s2cid=197491499 }}</ref> The bulge is X-shaped, that suggests that the galaxy is actually [[barred spiral galaxy|barred]].<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Molaeinezhad |first1=A. |last2=Falcón-Barroso |first2=J. |last3=Martínez-Valpuesta |first3=I. |last4=Khosroshahi |first4=H. G. |last5=Balcells |first5=M. |last6=Peletier |first6=R. F. |title=Establishing the level of cylindrical rotation in boxy/peanut bulges |journal=Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society |date=17 December 2015 |volume=456 |issue=1 |pages=692–709 |doi=10.1093/mnras/stv2697|doi-access=free |arxiv=1511.05572|s2cid=55647755 }}</ref> NGC 5965 along with another edge-on galaxy, [[NGC 5746]], were the galaxies used to confirm that peanut shaped bulges are associated with the presence of a bar, by [[spectrum|spectrographically]] observing the disturbance caused at the velocity distributions of the galaxies.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Kuijken |first1=Konrad |last2=Merrifield |first2=Michael R. |title=Establishing the connection between peanut-shaped bulges and galactic bars |journal=The Astrophysical Journal |date=April 1995 |volume=443 |pages=L13 |doi=10.1086/187824|bibcode=1995ApJ...443L..13K |arxiv=astro-ph/9501114 |s2cid=18228313 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Athanassoula |first1=E. |author-link=Lia Athanassoula|last2=((Bureau)) |first2=M. |title=Bar Diagnostics in Edge-on Spiral Galaxies. II. Hydrodynamical Simulations |journal=The Astrophysical Journal |date=10 September 1999 |volume=522 |issue=2 |pages=699–717 |doi=10.1086/307677|bibcode=1999ApJ...522..699A |arxiv=astro-ph/9904206 |s2cid=119472198 }}</ref> The galaxy features some level of disk disturbance, like a warp, as the outer part of the disk along with a ring-like dust lane appear to be on a different plane from the bulge, but it could also be a projection effect.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Miskolczi |first1=A. |last2=Bomans |first2=D. J. |last3=Dettmar |first3=R.-J. |title=Tidal streams around galaxies in the SDSS DR7 archive |journal=Astronomy & Astrophysics |date=8 December 2011 |volume=536 |pages=A66 |doi=10.1051/0004-6361/201116716|arxiv=1102.2905 |bibcode=2011A&A...536A..66M |s2cid=118086769 }}</ref><ref name="Bianchi07">{{cite journal |last1=Bianchi |first1=S. |title=The dust distribution in edge-on galaxies |journal=Astronomy & Astrophysics |date=26 June 2007 |volume=471 |issue=3 |pages=765–773 |doi=10.1051/0004-6361:20077649|arxiv=0705.1471 |s2cid=19022161 }}</ref> When observed in the [[K band (infrared)|K band]], the galaxy features a stellar ring.<ref name="Bianchi07"/>
NGC 5965 lies in a galaxy filament which also includes [[NGC 5987]] and its loose group,<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Narayanan |first1=Anand |last2=Wakker |first2=Bart P. |last3=Savage |first3=Blair D. |last4=Keeney |first4=Brian A. |last5=Shull |first5=J. Michael |last6=Stocke |first6=John T. |last7=Sembach |first7=Kenneth R. |title=Cosmic origins spectrograph and FUSE observations of T ~ 105 K gas in a nearby galaxy filament |journal=The Astrophysical Journal |date=1 October 2010 |volume=721 |issue=2 |pages=960–974 |doi=10.1088/0004-637X/721/2/960|arxiv=1008.2797 |bibcode=2010ApJ...721..960N |s2cid=119289803 }}</ref> which includes [[NGC 5981]], [[NGC 5982]], [[NGC 5985]], three galaxies known as the Sampler.<ref name=Makarov>{{cite journal|last1=Makarov|first1=Dmitry|last2=Karachentsev|first2=Igor|title=Galaxy groups and clouds in the local (z~ 0.01) Universe|journal=Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society|date=21 April 2011|volume=412|issue=4|pages=2498–2520|doi=10.1111/j.1365-2966.2010.18071.x|doi-access=free |bibcode=2011MNRAS.412.2498M|arxiv=1011.6277|s2cid=119194025}}</ref>
==Supernovae== Two [[supernova]]e have been observed in NGC 5965: * '''SN 2001cm''' ([[Type II supernova|Type{{nbsp}}II]], mag. 17.5) was discovered by the Beijing Astronomical Observatory (BAO) on 3 June 2001.{{r|IAUC7641|TNS-2001cm}} * '''SN 2018cyg''' (Type II, mag. 18.7) was discovered by the [[Lick Observatory]] Supernova Search (LOSS) on 30 June 2018.{{r|TNS-2018cyg}}
== Gallery == <gallery> NGC 5963 5965 5971 GALEX WikiSky.jpg|[[NGC 5963]], NGC 5965, and [[NGC 5971]] by [[GALEX]] NGC5965 - SDSS DR14.jpg|NGC 5965 by the [[Sloan Digital Sky Survey]] </gallery>
== References == <references>
<ref name=IAUC7641>{{cite journal |last1=Jiang |first1=X. J. |last2=Qiu |first2=Y. L. |title=Supernova 2001cm in NGC 5965 |journal=International Astronomical Union Circular |date=2001 |issue=7641 |page=3 |bibcode=2001IAUC.7641....3J |url = http://www.cbat.eps.harvard.edu/iauc/07600/07641.html#Item3}}</ref>
<ref name=TNS-2001cm>{{cite web |website=Transient Name Server |title=SN 2001cm |url=https://www.wis-tns.org/object/2001cm |publisher = [[International Astronomical Union|IAU]] |access-date=22 April 2026}}</ref>
<ref name=TNS-2018cyg>{{cite web |website=Transient Name Server |title=SN 2018cyg |url=https://www.wis-tns.org/object/2018cyg |publisher = [[International Astronomical Union|IAU]] |access-date=22 April 2026}}</ref>
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