Compact Groups of Galaxies

@inproceedings{Hickson1997CompactGO,
  title={Compact Groups of Galaxies},
  author={Paul Hickson},
  year={1997}
}
▪ Abstract Compact groups of galaxies have posed a number of challenging questions. Intensive observational and theoretical studies are now providing answers to many of these and, at the same time, are revealing unexpected new clues about the nature and role of these systems. Most compact groups contain a high fraction of galaxies having morphological or kinematical peculiarities, nuclear radio and infrared emission, and starburst or active galactic nuclei (AGN) activity. They contain large… 
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