IDENTIFICATION AND MORPHOLOGY OF OPTICALLY FAINT EXTRAGALACTIC IRAS SOURCES

We have performed a comprehensive identification programme of opticall y faint extragalactic IRAS sources by use of deep R band CCD images fo r 99 sources. We present positions and the morphological structure of the optical counterparts as well as co-added IRAS fluxes. Integral R b and photometry is given for 67 IRAS sources and a total of 113 galaxie s. Also B band photometric data are listed for 51 IRAS sources and 88 galaxies in total. Furtheron, redshifts for 53 IRAS sources and a tota l of 87 individual galaxies are presented. More than 50% of the cases with a definite identification are galaxies with peculiar morphologica l structure. The individual components of the multiple systems for whi ch we have measured redshifts show only small redshift differences ind icating that they are real physical systems.