• Luminous infrared galaxies or LIRGs are galaxies with luminosities above 1011 L☉. They are also referred to as submillimeter galaxies (SMGs) through their...
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    NGC 6240 (redirect from Starfish galaxy)
    NGC 6240, also known as the Starfish Galaxy, is a nearby ultraluminous infrared galaxy (ULIRG) in the constellation Ophiuchus. It was discovered by French...
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    Approximately one-third of nearby galaxies are classified as containing LINER nuclei. Luminous infrared galaxies (LIRGs) are galaxies with luminosities—the measurement...
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    for short) is an extremely luminous infrared galaxy (ELIRG) which, in 2015, was announced as the most luminous known galaxy in the observable universe...
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    formation would have been very high, to the point of becoming a luminous infrared galaxy for roughly 100 million years. Modeling also recovers the bulge...
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    and gas, releasing infrared light at a rate about 1,000 times as much as the Milky Way, making these some of the most luminous galaxies in the universe....
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    MoM-z14 (redirect from Oldest galaxy)
    from the earliest celestial objects. MoM-z14 is a remarkably luminous and compact galaxy. It has a mass of 108 solar masses making it similar in mass...
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    classified BBs as 'Luminous Compact Galaxies' but did not refer to them by name, stating that blue, purple and green Pea galaxies were the same type of...
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    a light curve that fades slowly with resurgent brightness in the infrared. Luminous red novae are not related to standard novae, which are explosions...
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    comparable to GPs. Luminous infrared galaxies (LIRGs). Ultra-luminous Infrared Galaxies (ULIRGs). These galaxies are generally extremely dusty objects...
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    NGC 7679 (category Luminous infrared galaxies)
    infrared luminosity is 1011.05 L☉, and thus it is categorised as a luminous infrared galaxy. NGC 7679 is both a starburst galaxy and a Seyfert galaxy...
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    MCG -03-04-014 (category Luminous infrared galaxies)
    is a spiral galaxy located 450 million light-years in the constellation of Cetus. MCG -03-04-014 is classified as a luminous infrared galaxy, meaning it...
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    Messier 77 (redirect from Spiral Galaxy M77)
    class of SAa, suggesting tightly wound arms. However, infrared images of the inner part of the galaxy reveal a prominent bar not seen in visual light, and...
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    satellite galaxy is a smaller companion galaxy that travels on bound orbits within the gravitational potential of a more massive and luminous host galaxy (also...
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    Markarian 273 (category Luminous infrared galaxies)
    infrared and it is categorised as ultra-luminous infrared galaxy, with total infrared luminosity of the galaxy is estimated to be 1012.1 L☉. The startburst...
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    ESO 148-2 (category Luminous infrared galaxies)
    Dopita, Michael A. (2014-09-03). "The energy source and dynamics of infrared luminous galaxy ESO 148-IG002". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society...
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    NGC 6907 (category Luminous infrared galaxies)
    infrared luminosity of the galaxy is 1011.03 L☉, and thus it is categorised as a luminous infrared galaxy. NGC 6907 is a grand design spiral galaxy with...
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  • dynamics and composition of the center of the Milky Way galaxy, and the nature of luminous infrared galaxies. Becklin received his Ph.D. in physics from the California...
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    IRAS 01003–2238 (category Luminous infrared galaxies)
    P. (2017-03-01). "A tidal disruption event in the nearby ultra-luminous infrared galaxy F01004-2237". Nature Astronomy. 1 (3): 0061. arXiv:1702.02573....
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    IC 1623 (category Luminous infrared galaxies)
    source in mid infrared. The whole galaxy shines bright in infrared and it is characterised as a luminous infrared galaxy, with a total infrared luminosity...
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    IRAS 13218+0552 (category Luminous infrared galaxies)
    from Earth. It is a Seyfert galaxy and a luminous infrared galaxy. IRAS 13218+0552 is classified as a Seyfert type 1.5 galaxy given its large [OIII] flux...
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    IC 860 (category Luminous infrared galaxies)
    into its quiescent state. It is also vibrationally excited HCN luminous infrared galaxy (LIRG) with LHCN -VIB/LIR of 3.2 x 10−8. It has a dust obscured...
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  • over one million galaxy images from The Sloan Digital Sky Survey, The Hubble Space Telescope and the Cosmic Assembly Near-Infrared Deep Extragalactic...
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    NGC 7592 (category Luminous infrared galaxies)
    20, 1784. The total infrared luminosity is 1011.33 L☉, and thus it is categorised as a luminous infrared galaxy. One of the galaxies hosts a type 2 Seyfert...
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    asteroids, cool and dim stars such as brown dwarfs, and the most luminous infrared galaxies. WISE was not able to detect Kuiper belt objects, because their...
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    ESO 286-19 (category Luminous infrared galaxies)
    Armus, L; Iwasawa, K (2021). "A hard X-ray view of luminous and ultra-luminous infrared galaxies in GOALS – I. AGN obscuration along the merger sequence"...
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    Markarian 1034 (category Luminous infrared galaxies)
    from Earth and are classified as luminous infrared galaxies. PGC 9074 known as Mrk 1034a, is classified as a type Sa galaxy. It has two spiral arms around...
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    Markarian 1014 (category Luminous infrared galaxies)
    Seyfert galaxy as well as an ultraluminous infrared galaxy (ULIRG). Markarian 1014 is an active nucleus-dominated galaxy with a total far-infrared luminosity...
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    IRAS 10565+2448 (category Luminous infrared galaxies)
    a radio jet drive the massive multiphase outflow in the ultra-luminous infrared galaxy IRAS 10565 + 2448?". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical...
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    NGC 5010 (category Luminous infrared galaxies)
    by John Herschel on May 9, 1831. It is considered a Luminous Infrared Galaxy (LIRG). As the galaxy has few young blue stars and mostly red old stars and...
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