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Catalogue of Interacting Galaxies

(VV)
(begun in the 1950s)

The Catalog of Interacting Galaxies was put together by Russian astrophysicist Boris Vorontsov-Velyaminov, with 355 such galaxies in 1959, enlarged to 852 in 1976, and to 2000+ in 2001.


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Further reading:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vorontsov-Vel'yaminov_Interacting_Galaxies
http://www.sai.msu.su/sn/vv/
http://ned.ipac.caltech.edu/level5/VV_Cat/frames.html
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2001A%26AT...20..717V/abstract
PrefixExample  
IGVVIGVV 96 
VVVV 72 

Referenced by page:
Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies (APG)

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