References

Note: The following references are listed in terms of decreasing usage - some references were purely of historical interest while others played a major role in developing my understanding of the subject. This is particularly true in the case of the first section.

• Galaxies : Interactions and Induced Star Formation, Saas-Fe Advanced Course 26, Springer. Edited by Kennicutt, R.C., Schweizer, F. and Barnes, J.E. - Essential Reading
• Galactic Dynamics, Binney, J. and Tremaine, S. Princeton University Press, 1987 - Yet more essential reading!
• Galactic Bridges and Tails, Toomre, A. and Toomre, J. 1972, ApJ,172,623.
• Encounters of Disk/Halo Galaxies, Barnes, J. 1988, ApJ,331,699
• Dynamical Modeling of NGC 7252 and the Return of Tidal Material, Hibbard, J. and Mihos, C. 1995,AJ,110,140

These references were used more for general or historical interest.

• A Morphological Catalog of Galaxies in the Hubble deep Field, Van den Bergh, S., Abraham, R.G., Ellis, R.S., Tanvir, N.R., Santiago, B.X. and Glazebrook, K.G. 1996, AJ, 112, 359.
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• Evidence from the motions of old stars that the Galaxy collapsed. Eggen, O.J., Lynden-Bell, D. and Sandage, A. 1962, ApJ 136, 748.
• On the Clustering Tendencies among the Nebulae. II. A Study of Encounters between Laboratory Models of Stellar Systems by a New Integration Procedure, Holmberg, E. 1941, ApJ, vol.94, p.385.
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• The Atlas and Catalogue of Interacting Galaxies.Vorontsov-Velyaminov, B.A. 1959
• Extragalactic Astronomy, Vorontsov-Velyaminov, B.A. Harwood Academic Publishers, 1987
• Atlas Of Peculiar Galaxies. Arp, H. 1966
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