3 The bibliography

The Bibliography contains references to papers about each star listed in Table 1. Referred papers contain mainly original observational data, and comparative discussions with other objects under consideration have also been partly included. References are chronologically regulated and completed with key words. We have used the following list of key words:

Flares: photometry and colourimetry

Flares: optical spectra

Flares: UV emission

Flares: X-ray and high energy emission

Flares: energetics

Flares: statistics

Flares: theory

Radio emission

Polarization

Quiet state photometry

IR radiation

Photospheric spectra

Quiet chromosphere spectra

Quiescent UV emission

Quiescent X-ray emission

Outer atmospheres: theory

Starspots and long-term variability

Magnetic fields

Rotation, age

Fundamental & kinematic parameters

Catalogue

Review.

In some cases, binarity of stars hampers a single-valued selection of references for objects under consideration. Thus, for photometric observations of rather close binaries, that are carried out with short-focus telescopes as a rule, both components fall into the entrance diaphragm, and such observations give results for systems in total - such photometric data, as noted above, are marked by "J'' in Table 2. However, spectral observations with longer focus telescopes provide information on the components separately. Therefore, to avoid gaps, we select references for an XXX A component both as papers on XXX A and XXX as well. This leads to some surplus list of references while selection for an XXX A only would lead to a non-complete list of references.

We aspired to include in the Bibliography all papers with information on stellar activity, but the last ones only with astrometric, fundamental photometry, stellar statistical as well as with eclipse data up, to the end of 1997. In this work we used our card catalogue on the UV Cet-type stars, Abstracts on Astronomy and Astrophysics, a set of monographs and Proceedings of meetings on related topics, Prof. W. Wentzel's microfiche catalogue on flare stars, as well as references listed below. Finally, a cross-check with the SIMBAD database was carried out.

The Bibliography is too large to be printed and it would not be convenient to use in such a version. However, extractions from the Bibliography by an author or by two authors, by a star (by any designition from Table 1), by a key word and by any pair combinations of these criteria can be obtained from
http://www.crao.crimea.ua/databases/UVCet/
or from the CrAO web site mirror at Stanford
http://quake.stanford.edu/crao or upon e-mail requests to the authors.

Acknowledgements

We are deeply thankful to Dr. N.N. Samus and E.N. Pastukhova for preparing the 2000.0 coordinates of the UV Cet type stars, to Drs. M. and K. Tsvetkovs for the computer-readable version of the Prof. W. Wentzel's microfiche catalogue and for the first selection of data on flare stars from SIMBAD, to Dr. S. Hawley for help in use of her and her colleagues' recent papers on dM stars, to Dr. G. Cutispoto for his careful check and useful comments as referee, to Dr. S.G. Sergeev and S.I. Rostopchin for making up the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory WWW interface. We are very thankful to Prof. Paul Roche for improvements to our English manuscript. This research has made use of the SIMBAD database, operated at CDS, Strasbourg, France.