Radial velocities and iron abundances of field RR Lyraes. II.^*

¹ INSA; ESA IUE Observatory, P.O. Box 50727, 28080 Madrid, Spain
² Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía, CSIC, P.O. Box 3004, 18080, Granada, Spain
³ McDonald Observatory, University of Texas, Austin, Texas 78712, U.S.A.

Send offprint request to: E. Solano

Received: 29 October 1996
Accepted: 5 December 1996

Abstract

This is the second of the papers devoted to derive radial velocities and iron abundances of field RR Lyraes observed by HIPPARCOS. Our abundances show good agreement with those in the literature obtained both from photometric ( index) and spectroscopic methods. Binary candidates and stars misclassified as RR Lyraes in the original HIPPARCOS list have been also identified.