Mount Wilson and Palomar Observatories, Carnegie Institution of Washington, California Institute of Technology.
Reprint No. 206, 1955.

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MULTIPLE GALAXIES

F. Zwicky


Table of Contents

DEFINITIONS

REMARKS ON THE HISTORY OF THE SUBJECT
A. Small Groups of Galaxies
Clusters of Galaxies
Recent Advances
Instrumentation

WIDELY SEPARATED INTERCONNECTED GALAXIES
The Triple System IC 3481, Anon, IC 3483
KEENAN's System
Another Remarkable Filamentary Structure
WILD'S Triple Galaxy
The Basic Types of Structures
Some Conclusions

LONG EXTENSIONS AND SPURS OF SINGLE AND OF MULTIPLE GALAXIES
NGC 4038-4039
NGC 750-751
A System in Leo
NGC 4651 and Dwarf Companion
NGC 3628 and Faint Extensions
Spiral Galaxy with One Long Arm

SOME SPECIAL PROBLEMS
The Milky Way System and the Magellanic Clouds
The Andromeda Nebula and its Companions
New Clues on the Sense of Rotation of Spiral Galaxies
Multiple Galaxies in Clusters and in the General Field

OUTLOOK AND PROGRAMS

REFERENCES

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