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.
(catalog,galaxies)
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
| Prefix | Example | | |
| IGVV | IGVV 96 | | |
| VV | VV 72 | | |
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Referenced by page:
Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies (APG)
Index