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Arakelian Catalog

(Ark, Galaxies with High Surface Brightness)
(1970s list of small/bright galaxies)

Astronomer Marat Arakelian assembled a list of galaxies from a specific region of the celestial sphere that have above a given brightness, published in a paper, Galaxies with High Surface Brightness. Among them were a number of galaxies with active galactic nuclei (AGNs).


(catalog,galaxies,surface brightness)
Further reading:
https://www.aras.am/FamousAstronomers/arakelian.html
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1975SoByu..47....3A/abstract
PrefixExample  
ArkArk 120or "Arak" or "Akn" or "Arakelian"

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