Catalogue of wide binaries

Additional close companions found in the CCDM were retained only if an orbit was given, or if their separations were of less than 1". Wider companions were usually eliminated, unless convincing evidence of their sharing the proper motion of the primary was found. Distances to the primaries were updated using the Hipparcos (Cat. <I/239>) catalogue.

The data in the list are as follows (for details see the main paper): The first column contains the Hipparcos number, when available. Column 2 contains other identifications of the star. In the third column its multiplicity is indicated.

Column 4 contains the adopted distance to the star. Columns 5 and 6 contain the absolute visual magnitudes of the primary and secondary, respectively. The angular separation between the components is given in Column 7, and the expected value of the major semiaxes in Column 8.

Columns 9 and 10 contain the metallicity of the primary and its age, as determined by Schuster and collaborators. The individual ages listed were kindly provided by W. J. Schuster. The peculiar velocity of the binary is given in Column 11.

Columns 12 to 15 contain the main galactic orbital parameters; we list the apocentric distance, Rmax, as well as the maximum distance away from the galactic plane reached by the star |zmax|, and the three-dimensional eccentricity e of its galactic orbit. The last column contains various notes.