COMMISSIONS 27 AND 42 OF THE IAU
             INFORMATION BULLETIN ON VARIABLE STARS
                         Number 3943

                                              Konkoly Observatory
                                              Budapest
                                              19 October 1993

                                              HU ISSN 0374 - 0676


         A CATALOGUE OF SHORT PERIOD PULSATING VARIABLE STARS
                    OF A AND F SPECTRAL CLASSES


Delta Scuti, SX Phoenicis, rapidly oscillating Ap stars and some bright RRc type RR
Lyrae variables are collected in a new catalogue. The database contains 415 stars (version
Oct. 11, 1993), listed by Hipparcos Input Catalogue number, i.e.   
according to 2000.0 equatorial coordinates.
The content of the columns:
1. HIC number (Hipparcos Input Catalogue)
2. HR number (Bright Star Catalogue)
3. HD number (Henry Draper Catalogue)
4. SAO number (Smithsonian Astr.0bs. Catalogue)
5. Right ascension (2000.0 if the star is included in HIC)
6. Declination (2000.0 if the star is included in HIC)
7. V magnitude (HIC)
8. B-V colour index (HIC)
9. U-B colour index (BSC)
10. Period of variation (only the most relevant, in days, approx.)
11. Amplitude of variation (in magnitude)
12. Spectral type and luminosity class (HIC)
13. Rotational velocity (v x sini in km/s)
14. Type of variability and binarity:
	Delta Scuti.................DS
	SX Phoenicis................SX
	RR Lyrae....................RR
	rap.oscill. Ap.............AP
	suspected variable............?
	alpha CVn variable.............a
	visual binary............v
	spectroscopic binary.........s
	eclipsing binary..............e
15.*: if the star is also found in the catalogue containing 298 stars of
Garcia, et al.(1993a, 1993b)
The main differences between the present database and the catalogue of Garcia et a1.
are: our catalogue also contains the suspected Delta Scuti type and roAp stars but it does
not contain references and some astrophysical data (e.g. Stromgren photometry, radial
velocity, parallax and GCVS remarks). The data of our collection are based on earlier
catalogues and individual papers.
A list on 34 binary Delta Scuti stars can be found in Szatmary (1990).
  We hope, that the catalogue is useful not only for the Delta Scuti specialists, because
it helps to keep out these stars at the selection of comparison stars.
  The catalogue is available from the author via E-mail or on your own diskette (IBM
1.2 or 1.44 Mbyte floppy). A handling program in Turbo Basic code is also available,
upon request, which makes a selection by name of stars, catalogue number, constellation,
spectral type, pulsation and binarity type or according to a given interval of coordinates,
magnitudes, period, amplitude and rotational velocity.

  This work was supported by the Hungarian OTKA grants T4330 and T7522.



                          K. SZATMARY
                          JATE University Observatory and
                          Department of Experimental Physics
                          Dom ter 9, Szeged, Hungary H-6720
                          E-mail: h2674sza@huella.bitnet
                          j62b009 @ huszeg11.bitnet


References:
       
Garcia, J.R., Cebral, J.R., Scoccimarro, E.R., Wahnon, P., Zimmermann, M., Arena, R.,
   Bazterra, V., Krawczenco, C., Marotta, F., Pellizza, L., Risi, A.: 1993a, Delta Scuti
   Star Newsletter No. 6, p. 14 1993b, preprint [BIBCODE 1993DSSN....6...14G ]
Szatmary, K.: 1990, J.AAVSO 19, 52 [BIBCODE 1990JAVSO..19...52S ]
Turon, C. et al.: 1992, The Hipparcos Input Catalogue, Vols. 1-7, ESA SP-1136 [BIBCODE 1992ESASP1136.....T ]


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