3C 79

{{Short description|Galaxy in the constellation Aries}}

{{Quasar

| name = 3C 79

| image = 3C 79 NVAS 8.46I2.23 AL0200 1989SEP01 1 848.U2.59M.jpg

| epoch = J2000

| ra = {{RA|03|09|59.70}}

| dec = {{DEC|+17|05|58.0}}

| constellation name = Aries

| z = 0.2559{{cite web

| title=NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database

| work=Results for 3C 079

| url=http://nedwww.ipac.caltech.edu/cgi-bin/nph-objsearch?objname=3C+79

| access-date=2006-10-26 }}

| type = Sy2
FR II
narrow-line radio galaxy{{cite journal

|last=Fu |first=Hai

|author2=Stockton, Alan

|title=The Host Galaxy and the Extended Emission-Line Region of the Radio Galaxy 3C 79

|journal=The Astrophysical Journal

|volume=677 |issue=1 |pages=79–91 |year=2008

|doi=10.1086/529015

|url=http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2008ApJ...677...79F&link_type=ARTICLE&db_key=AST&high=

|access-date=2010-04-24 |bibcode=2008ApJ...677...79F|arxiv = 0712.4145 |s2cid=119111147

}}

| dist_ly = 2.9 billion light-years
(Light travel time)
3.2 billion light-years
(present)

| appmag_v = 19.0

| size_v = 0.25'X0.19'

| notes =

| names = DA 93, LEDA 1524618, 3C 79, 4C 16.07, PGC 1524618, QSO B0307+169

}}

3C 79 is a Seyfert Galaxy[http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/simbad/sim-id?protocol=html&Ident=3C+79 SIMBAD] and a radio galaxy{{Cite journal |last1=Gulkis |first1=S. |last2=Hazard |first2=C. |last3=Bray |first3=A. D. |date=1968-01-01 |title=The Structure of the Radio Sources 3C 79 and 3C 192 |url=https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1968ApL.....1..105G/abstract |journal=Astrophysical Letters |volume=1 |pages=105–110 |bibcode=1968ApL.....1..105G |issn=0004-6388}} located in the constellation Aries. It is hosted by an elliptical galaxy described as elongated with a complex morphology.{{Cite journal |last1=Madrid |first1=Juan P. |last2=Chiaberge |first2=Marco |last3=Floyd |first3=David |last4=Sparks |first4=William B. |last5=Macchetto |first5=Duccio |last6=Miley |first6=George K. |last7=Axon |first7=David |last8=Capetti |first8=Alessandro |last9=O’Dea |first9=Christopher P. |last10=Baum |first10=Stefi |last11=Perlman |first11=Eric |last12=Quillen |first12=Alice |date=June 2006 |title=Hubble Space Telescope – Near-Infrared Snapshot Survey of 3CR Radio Source Counterparts at Low Redshift |url=https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1086/504480/fulltext/ |journal=The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series |volume=164 |issue=2 |pages=307–333 |doi=10.1086/504480 |issn=0067-0049|arxiv=astro-ph/0603239 |bibcode=2006ApJS..164..307M }}

According to radio mapping made by Very Large Array, 3C 79 has an asymmetric appearance. It has two radio lobes. The western lobe is found closely positioned to the radio core with diffused emission in south direction, while the eastern lobe is more aligned to the axis of the radio source.{{Cite journal |last=Fernini |first=Ilias |date=2014-05-15 |title=Very Large Arrayy Images At 8.4 GHz of 40 Fanaroff-Riley II 3CR Radio Sources With 0.1 > z < 2.0 |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0067-0049/212/2/19 |journal=The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series |volume=212 |issue=2 |pages=19 |doi=10.1088/0067-0049/212/2/19 |bibcode=2014ApJS..212...19F |issn=0067-0049}}

The extended emission-line region (EELR) is almost certainly photoionized by the hidden quasar. This emission-line region has an X-shaped morphology with two of its structures having ordered rotation.{{Cite journal |last1=Balmaverde |first1=B. |last2=Capetti |first2=A. |last3=Marconi |first3=A. |last4=Venturi |first4=G. |last5=Chiaberge |first5=M. |last6=Baldi |first6=R. D. |last7=Baum |first7=S. |last8=Gilli |first8=R. |last9=Grandi |first9=P. |last10=Meyer |first10=E. T. |last11=Miley |first11=G. |last12=O’Dea |first12=C. |last13=Sparks |first13=W. |last14=Torresi |first14=E. |last15=Tremblay |first15=G. |date=2020-12-21 |title=The MURALES survey III. Completing the MUSE observations of 37 3C low-z radio galaxies |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202039062 |journal=Astronomy & Astrophysics |volume=645 |pages=A12 |doi=10.1051/0004-6361/202039062 |issn=0004-6361|arxiv=2010.11195 }}