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| | Who is IC 694? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17) |
 | | It appears that, historically (Gottlieb, Thomson & Corwin 1998, personal communications), the label "NGC 3690" refers to both of the two disk systems imaged here, and that IC 694 actually refers to the faint (mB=16.2 mag) compact object at the upper right of this image (a.k.a. |
 | | For now, I will follow the identification used by virtually all investigators since 1959 in refering to the eastern portion of Arp 299 as IC 694 and the western portion as NGC 3690. |
 | | If not, it seems more likely that Swift instead subdivided NGC 3690 into two separate galaxies, with IC 694 referring to the eastern system. |
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