Our catalogue, presented in Table1 (click here), consists of Bootis stars for which
classification spectra were available to us or have been observed by us,
and/or for which a membership to this group is confirmed
by an abundance analysis.
Table 1: Bootis stars
Table 1: continued
Candidates for this catalogue were taken primarily from Renson et
al. (1990) and Gray & Corbally (1993). A critical assessment of the references
was performed with SIMBAD and we could include 40 stars out of the 101
entries in
Renson et al. (1990). We excluded those stars
classified by Gray & Garrison (1987, 1989a,b)
as non-Bootis stars. For more details see Sect.4 (click here).
Unfortunately, there are still some measurements for Bootis stars missing in our
catalogue, especially in the ultraviolet. Nevertheless, we tried to extract
those properties which are common to all catalogue stars and which seem to be
significant for the
Bootis
phenomenon. But still, there remains a chance of confusion with somehow
phenomenologically related stars, like Be, He-weak and Horizontal Branch
stars. The ultimate membership criterium would result from a spectroscopic
analysis concerning abundances,
and
,
but which is time consuming. The present
catalogue can provide a selection of high probability
Bootis stars for such an
investigation. In conclusion, for accepting a candidate
for our catalogue we used the
following partially redundant criteria, of which all of them have to
be fulfilled by a member, provided that the necessary observations were
available: