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Catalogue of cataclysmic binaries, low-mass X-ray binaries and related objects (Seventh edition)

Astrophysics 2009-11-07 v1

Abstract

The catalogue lists coordinates, apparent magnitudes, orbital parameters, and stellar parameters of the components and other characteristc properties of 472 cataclysmic binaries, 71 low-mass X-ray binaries and 113 related objects with known or suspected orbital periods together with a comprehensive selection of the relevant recent literature. In addition the catalogue contains a list of references to published finding charts for 635 of the 656 objects, and a cross-reference list of alias object designations. Literature published before 1 January 2003 has, as far as possible, been taken into account. All data can be accessed via the dedicated catalogue webpage at http://www.mpa-garching.mpg.de/RKcat/ (MPA) and http://physics.open.ac.uk/RKcat/ (OU). We will update the information given on the catalogue webpage regularly, initially every six months.

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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0301444,
  title  = {Catalogue of cataclysmic binaries, low-mass X-ray binaries and related objects (Seventh edition)},
  author = {H. Ritter and U. Kolb},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0301444},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

Submitted to A&A (4 pages). See the dedicated catalogue webpage at http://physics.open.ac.uk/RKcat/ (OU) or http://www.MPA-Garching.MPG.DE/RKcat/ (MPA)