A&A Supplement series, Vol. 129, April II 1998, 357-361
Received July 5; accepted October 13, 1997
M. Faúndez-Abans and M. de Oliveira-Abans
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Laboratório Nacional de Astrofisica, Caixa Postal 21,
CEP:37.500-000, Itajubá, MG, Brazil
It is proposed that peculiar ring galaxies can be divided into five
principal types according to the morphology of the ring and bulge,
based on the visual inspection of 489 selected objects. Those objects
have been named "peculiar'' following the "Catalogue of Southern
Peculiar Galaxies and Associations'' by Arp & Madore
(1986)
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keywords: galaxies: peculiar -- fundamental parameters -- structure