List of spiral DRAGNs
Spiral DRAGNs or Speca-like galaxies are a type of spiral galaxies which are also radio galaxies or which contain DRAGNs.
Most DRAGNs are associated with elliptical galaxies, as are most double-lobed radio-galaxies. Spiral DRAGNs are inconsistent with currently known galaxy formation processes. As of 2023, there are nearly 36 spiral DRAGNs.
Lenticlular galaxies containing DRAGNs are as rare as spiral DRAGNs, with only 5 known examples as of 2020, including: Centaurus A, NGC 612 and NGC 1534. Nearby Seyfert galaxies containing small or galaxy-scale radio jets/lobes are not accepted as Specas or Spiral DRANGs.
The first spiral-host large radio galaxy, 0313-192, was discovered in 1998 by Michael J. Ledlow, Frazer N. Owen, and William C. Keel. After more than a decade the second case, Speca, was discovered by Ananda Hota and his collaborators in 2011. Since Speca was also episodic, two pairs of radio lobes on either sides of the host, it removed all doubts on possible background galaxy confusing as the host. Hereafter the search for Speca-like galaxy got intensified and by 2023 the total number of such galaxies has increased to three dozens, establishing itself as a new class of radio galaxies.