Markarian galaxies (First Byurakan Survey)
Galaxias de Markarian (First Byurakan Survey)
- Date
- 1965-1981 (primer artículo, 1967) · confidence high
- Place
- Byurakan Observatory, Aragatsotn, Armenia
- Credited to
- Benjamin Markarian
- Field
- Cosmos & Earth
What was discovered
A survey using an objective prism that catalogued about 1,500 galaxies with an excess of ultraviolet radiation, including many active-nucleus (Seyfert) and intense star-forming galaxies. It was among the first systematic surveys of active galaxies.
Markarian published the first paper in 1967; the catalogue was completed in 1981 with 1,500 objects.
What it led to
- discovery of numerous Seyfert and starburst galaxies and quasars
- catalogues for observatories such as Hubble and GALEX
- studies of active galactic nuclei worldwide