Dictionary of Nomenclature of Celestial Objects
(Last update: 17-Mar-2023)

Result of query: info cati LCCG$

Details on Acronym:   LCCG
  
LCCG   (Las Campanas Compact Group)
 Write:<<LCCG  NN>>  

        <<LCCG  NNa>>
 N:  76+257
Object:Group of G  (SIMBAD class: GroupG = Group of Galaxies)
  Note:Las Campanas Redshift Survey.
    N=76 groups of G, format 'NN'.
    In each group, galaxies format 'NNa', the letter 'a'    represents the brightest group member, the letter 'b' the    second brightest group member, and so on.
    Atlas of the finding charts in Fig.4.
    See also LCDCS, LCLG, LARCS, LCRS.
   Ref:=2000AN....321..101A
     byALLAM S.S.
, TUCKER D.L.
 Astron. Nachr., 321, 101-114 (2000)

    Compact groups of galaxies in the Las Campanas Redshift Survey.

oin ref list Hickson 1982ApJ...255..382H instead of 225.382
oTable 2: <LCCG NN> (Nos 1-76). Table 3: <LCCG NNa> N=257.
=E=Catalogue in electronic form as J/other/AN/321.101
 Originof the Acronym: A = Assigned by the author(s)