This new catalogue of flare stars includes 463 objects. It contains astrometric, spectral and photometric data as well as information on the infrared, radio and X-ray properties and general stellar parameters. From the total reference list of about 3400 articles, partial lists selected by objects, authors, key words and by any pairs of these criteria can be obtained.
This Catalogue was created for geodetical purposes, mainly for the determination of the latitude by Talkott's method. It contains all stars up to 6 vis. mag. from -10 to +90 degrees. It is composed of 1334 "geodetic" stars and 1623 "Pulkovo" stars. The "geodetic" stars were observed on 5 observatories (Pulkovo, GAISH, Kazan, Nikolaev and Tashkent) by differential methods: each star was observed 8 times in the system of "Pulkovo" stars, during years 1934-1939. The Catalogue of 1623 "Pulkovo" Stars was observed in the years approx. 1910-1925 in Pulkovo, Alger, Babelsberg, Washington, Greenwich, Cape, Nicolaev, Paris and Uccle, mainly by absolute methods. There are corrections to FK3 for each star.
This catalogue contains 1602 entries. It was created to list objects that have similar near- and mid-infrared characteristics than R Coronae Borealis (RCB) stars which are supergiant and hydrogen-deficient stars known to possess a hot circumstellar shell. It is therefore a catalogue enriched with RCB stars and further spectroscopic follow-ups are needed to reveal the nature of each object. The catalogue was produced from a series of selection criteria on the infrared colour of sources published in the Preliminary WISE data release (2011). These sources spread over 57% of the entire sky. They have also all been detected in each J, H and K bands of the 2MASS catalogue.
A catalogue of (411) Algol-type (semi-detached) binary stars is presented in the form of five separate tables of information. The catalogue has developed from an earlier version (Budding, 1984, Cat. <V/46>) by including more recent information and an improved layout. A sixth table lists (1872) candidate Algols, about which fewer details are known at present. Some issues relating to the classification and interpretation of Algol-like binaries are also discussed.
Cross identifications between the General Catalogue of Galactic S Stars (GCGSS), the IRAS Point Source Catalogue (PSC), and the Guide Star Catalogue (GSC) are presented. The purpose of the present catalogue is i) to provide a clean sample of S stars with far-IR data, and ii) to provide accurate GSC positions for S stars, superseding those listed in the GCGSS. The IRAS colour-colour diagram and the galactic distribution of S stars associated with an IRAS source are presented. Several S stars having extended images in at least one IRAS band have also been identified.
This catalogue is a compilation of data concerning Be-type stars. Please refer to the document files by Anne C. Raugh for more details about the electronic version; note however that the two files described there ("Catalog" and "Additional Info.") have been merged here into a single file.
We present the Blue Stragglers (BSS) Catalogues extracted from the photometric data base of 74 Galactic GCs published by Piotto et al., 2002, Cat. <J/A+A/391/945>. All the clusters were observed in the F439W and F555W photometric bands pointing the HST/WFPC2 camera to the central core. Candidates were selected according to their position in the colour magnitude diagrams. A detailed description of the selection process is given in the paper. We give for each cluster a list of blue straggler candidates together with their photometric data.
A new catalogue of bright binary stars is presented. The catalogue includes bright IDS systems and bright spectroscopic binaries. Besides IDS data (coordinates, relative positions, magnitudes and spectral classification) the catalogue contains extensive cross-identification and comments for 27452 systems. The catalogue is complete to magnitudes of 9mag, but contains stars down to about 16mag.
Using the Position and Proper Motion Extended-L (PPMXL) catalogue, we have used optical and near-infrared colour cuts together with a reduced proper motion cut to find bright M dwarfs for future exoplanet transit studies. PPMXL's low proper motion uncertainties allow us to probe down to smaller proper motions than previous similar studies. We have combined unique objects found with this method to that of previous work to produce 8479 K<9 M dwarfs. Low-resolution spectroscopy was obtained of a sample of the objects found using this selection method to gain statistics on their spectral type and physical properties. Results show a spectral-type range of K7-M4V. This catalogue is the most complete collection of K<9 M dwarfs currently available and is made available here.