Catalog of wide companions to Hipparcos stars

It contains 1392 CPM pairs with angular separations 30"<{rho}<1800", relative proper motion between the two components less than 25mas/yr, and magnitudes and colors of the secondaries consistent with those of dwarfs in the (M_V_, V-J) diagram. In addition, we list 21 candidate white dwarf CPM companions with separations under 300", about half of which should be physical.

We estimate a 0.31 fraction of pairs with red dwarf companions to be physical systems (about 425 objects), while the rest (mostly wide pairs) are chance alignments. For each candidate companion, the probability of a physical association is evaluated. The distribution of projected separations s of the physical pairs between 2kAU and 64kAU follows f(s){prop.to}s^-1.5^, which decreases faster than Opik's law.