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3. The notes

The notes are referred by means of the Rns number, e.g. the running number in Renson et al. (1991)'s General Catalogue of Ap and Am Stars.
Most of the notes are reported to indicate the binarity character of some stars.
Visual doubles are indicated if the companion star is closer than about 30 arcsec and the magnitude difference tex2html_wrap_inline604 is smaller than 5 or 6 magnitudes. This because our aim is to evidentiate the possibility that the presence of a companion might jeopardize the measurements. The informations we give generally concern the ADS number (Aitken 1932), if available, the angular distance in arcsec, and the magnitude difference between the components.
The spectroscopic binary character is indicated if the period is known; these data are mainly from Batten et al. (1978) catalogue.
Some notes are introduced to point out errors found in the literature or to put in evidence some very interesting characteristic.

Acknowledgements

We would like to thank all colleagues who have supplied their results making easier the hard task of updating the catalogue.



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