International Astronomical Union
Commission 42



BIBLIOGRAPHY OF CLOSE BINARIES


No. 68


Editor-in-Cief:
H. Drechsel


Editors:
D.R. Faulkner
T.J. Herczeg
V.G. Karetnikov
E. Lapasset
C. Maceroni
Y. Nakamura
R.G. Samec
C.D. Scarfe
M. Vetesník
M. Wolf



Material published by March 15, 1999

The bibliographical entries for Individual Stars and Collections of Data are categorized according to the following coding scheme:

1.

Observational data

a. Photometry

b. Spectroscopy

c. Spectrophotometry

d. Polarimetry

e. Astrometry, interferometry

f. Times of minima

$$\gamma$$ g.

i. Infrared data

o. Optical data

p. Photographic data

r. Radio data

u. Ultraviolet data

v. Visual estimates

x. X-ray data

2.

Derived physical data

a. Orbital elements

b. Absolute dimensions, masses

c. New or improved ephemeris, period variations

d. Apsidal motion

e. Physical properties of stellar atmospheres

f. Chemical abundances

g. Accretion disks and accretion phenomena

3.

Catalogues, discoveries, charts

a. Catalogues

b. Discoveries of new binaries and novae

c. Identification of optical counterparts of X-ray, IR, or radio sources

d. Finding charts

4.

Observational techniques

5.

Theoretical investigations

6.

Statistical investigations

7.

Miscellaneous

a. Abstract

b. Addenda or errata

Abbreviations

AD accretion disk HMXB high-mass X-ray binary QPO quasi-periodic oscillation

BH black hole IP intermediate polar RV radial velocity

CB close binary LC light curve SB spectroscopic binary

CV cataclysmic variable LMXB low-mass X-ray binary WD white dwarf

EB eclipsing binary NS neutron star WR Wolf-Rayet star

Acknowledgements

Prof. Dr. Atsuma Yamasaki, National Defense Academy, Japan, who has been serving as editor-in-chief and contributing editor of BCB for 12 years, wished to retire from this task. I like to thank him for his outstanding efforts and excellent contributions. The survey of Asian literature is now taken over by Prof. Dr. Yasuhisa Nakamura of Fukushima University, Japan, who is welcomed in the editorial board of BCB.

H. Drechsel