M.A.SVECHNIKOV,L.A.BESSONOVA A CATALOGUE OF ORBITAL ELEMENTS,MASSES AND LUMINOSITIES OF CLOSE DOUBLE STARS. FILE A: THE DESCRIPTION OF THE CATALOGUE. THE PRESENT CATALOGUE IS A NEW EDITION OF THE CATALOGUE OF THE PHOTOMETRIC AND ABSOLUTE ELEMENTS OF CLOSE DOUBLE SYSTEMS OF SVECHNIKOV(REF 142).AFTER THE APPEARANCE OF THIS CATALOGUE(1969),THE NUMEROUS NEW DATA CONCERNING BOTH PHOTOMETRIC AND SPECTROSCOPIC ELEMENTS OF ORBITS OF THE ECLIPSING BINARIES WERE PUBLISHED.THE PRECISION OF DETERMINATION OF THE LIGHT CURVES OF ECLIPSING SYSTEMS IS ESSENTIALLY AUGMENTED;NOW,THE LIGHT CURVES OF ECLIPSING BINARIES ARE OBTAINED MAINLY BY MEANS OF MULTICOLOUR PHOTOELECTRIC OBSERVATIONS;FOR A NUMBER OF SYSTEMS,THE EXTRA-ATMOSPHERIC OBSERVATIONS ON THE SATELLITES AND ORBITAL ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORIES ARE OBTAINED.DURING THE LAST TEN YEARS,MODERN METHODS OF EVALUATION OF PHOTOMETRIC ELEMENTS OF ECLIPSING BINARIES ARE ELABORATED AND WIDELY UTILIZED IN PRACTICE(ESPECIALLY,METHODS OF LIGHT CURVE-SYNTHESIS,AS WELL AS DIRECT METHODS OF PHOTOMETRIC SOLUTIONS OF LIGHT CURVES BY THE USE OF NEW NUMERICAL COMPUTER PROGRAMS.FOR THE DETERMINATION OF SPECTROSCOPIC ORBITAL ELEMENTS,NOW,AS A RULE,THE SPECTROGRAMS WITH ESSENTIALY GREATER THAN FORMERLY DISPERSION ARE UTILIZED;WHICH PERMITS TO AVOID,TO A CONSIDERABLE EXTENT,EFFECTS OF THE BLENDING OF SPECTRAL LINES,AS WELL AS A NUMBER OF OTHER EFFECTS DISTORTING THE RADIAL VELOCITIES CURVES OF COMPONENTS, AND TO EVALUATE MUCH MORE RELIABLY THE MASS-RATIO OF COMPONENTS AND THE MASSES OF BOTH COMPONENTS OF ECLIPSING SYSTEM. A NUMBER OF CATALOGUES OF PHOTOMETRIC ELEMENTS OF ECLIPSING BINARIES WAS PUBLISHED(SEE KOCH ET AL.(REF 43);CESTER ET AL.(REF 1614),ETC.),AS WELL AS A SERIES OF SURVEY PAPERS ON THE DETERMINATION OF ABSOLUTE ELEMENTS OF CLOSE DOUBLE STARS(AMONG WHICH THAT OF POPPER(REF 1615) OUGHT TO BE MENTIONED IN THE FIRST INSTANCE,AND ALSO THOSE OF GIANNONE,GIANNUZZI(REF 1616);OF LACY (REF 1617;1618);OF SINVHAL,SRIVASTAVA(REF 1619),AND SO FORTH). IN CONNECTION WITH ALL ABOVE-STATED,IT IS NECESSARY TO REVISE THE DATA OF SVECHNIKOV'S(REF 142) CATALOGUE,TAKING INTO ACCOUNT NEW OBSERVATIONAL RESULTS, AND TO FULFIL MORE DETAILED DISCUSSION OF OBSERVATIONAL DATA OBTAINED BY DIFFERENT AUTHORS(FOR EXAMPLE,FOR SOME ECLIPSING BINARIES,UP TO 40-50 VARIOUS PHOTOMETRIC SOLUTIONS ARE FOUND,WHICH DO NOT AGREE WELL,SOMETIMES,WITH EACH OTHER).SUCH WORK IS EFFECTUATED BY US ON THE BASIS OF CARD CATALOGUE OF PHOTOMETRIC,SPECTROSCOPIC AND ABSOLUTE ELEMENTS OF CLOSE BINARY STARS COMPILED BY M.A.SVECHNIKOV FROM 1962.ON THE WHOLE,RESULTS COMPILED IN SVECHNIKOV'S CARD CATALOGUE UP TO END OF 1981,ARE REPRESENTED IN PRESENT CATALOGUE. ALL ECLIPSING SISTEMS GIVEN IN THE PRESENT CATALOGUE ARE DIVITED (FROM THEIR GEOMETRICAL AND PHISICAL CHARACTERISTICS) INTO THE FOLLOWING TYPES, ACCORDING TO THE CLASSIFICATION OF SVECHNIKOV (REF 826;142;1620), BASED,IN ITS TURN, ON THE PRINCIPLES OF THE CLASSIFICATIONS OF ECLIPSING BINARIES OF KOPAL (REF 1481;371;823) AND OF KRAT(REF 1621;1622);MORE DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF UTILIZED BU US CLASSIFICATION SEE IN THE PAPERS OF SVECHNIKOV (REF 142) AND OF SVECHNIKOV,SNEZHKO(REF 1620): 1. THE 'DETACHED MAIN SEQUENCE-SYSTEMS' (MS),IN WHICH BOTH COMPONENTS ARE THE STARS OF MAIN SEQUENCE FAR FROM THE LIMITS OF THEIR INNER CRITICAL SURFACES ( 'ROCHE LOBES',LATER ON DESIGNATED AS 'RLS'). 2. THE 'SEMI-DETACHED SYSTEMS WITH SUBGIANT SECONDARY' (SD),WHERE THE MORE MASSIVE AND(USUALLY) BRIGHTER COMPONENT IS ORDINARY MAIN SEQUENCE-STAR, AND LESS MASSIVE SECONDARY COMPONENT APPEARS TO BE SUBGIANT,WITH SIZE CLOSE TO THAT OF CORRESPONDING RL. 3. THE 'DETACHED SYSTEMS WITH' UNDERSIZED'SUBGIANT' (US),WHERE LESS MASSIVE SUBGIANT SECONDARY COMPONENT IS EVIDENTLY CONSIDERABLY LESS THAN ITS RL (IN CONTRADISTINCTION TO SUBGIANT SECONDARIES IN SD-SYSTEMS). 4. THE 'CONTACT' ECLIPSING BINARIES,WHERE BOTH COMPONENTS ARE CLOSE TO THEIR RLS(ALTHOUGH THEY DO NOT OBLIGATORY STRICTLY FILL CORRESPONDING RLS; TO ALL APPEARANCES,THERE ARE AT PRESENT OBVIOUS OBSERVATIONAL EVIDENCES OF THE EXISTENCE BOTH 'UNDERCONTACT' AND 'OVERCONTACT' SYSTEMS;IN THAT SENSE,THE TERM 'CONTACT SYSTEM' IS NOTCOMPLETELY CORRECT,AND,BEING LITERALLY APPREHENDED BY CERTAIN AUTHORS,IT LED IN THE PAST TO SOME ERRONEOUS CONCLUSIONS. TWO GROUPS OF VERY CLOSE DOUBLE SYSTEMS WITH DIFFERENT PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS ARE ATTRIBUTED TO THIS TYPE: 4A. THE 'CONTACT SYSTEMS OF EARLY SPECTRAL TYPES' (CE),IN WHICH SPECTRUM OF THE PRIMARY(MORE MASSIVE) COMPONENT IS EARLIER THAN APPROXIMATELY F0,PERIOD EXCEEDS,AS A RULE, 0.5 DAY; SPECTRUM OF THE MORE MASSIVE COMPONENT IS USUALLY SOMEWHAT EARLIER THAN THAT OF SECONDARY COMPONENT. 4B. THE 'CONTACT SYSTEMS OF W U MA-TYPE' (CW),WITH THE PERIODS LESS THAN 0.5 DAY AND THE SPECTRA OF COMPONENTS LATER THAN ABOUT F0; MORE MASSIVE COMPONENT HAS USUALLY SOMEWHAT LATER SPECTRAL TYPE THAN LESS MASSIVE ONE. ON THE HERTZSPRUNS-RUSSELL'S(H-R) DIAGRAM' SECONDARY COMPONENTS ARE DISPLACED, AS A RULE,SOMEWHAT TO THE LEFT FROM THE ZERO-AGE MAIN SEQUENCE' (ZAMS). 5. THE ECLIPSING BINARIES 'SIMILAR TO W U MA-TYPE SYSTEMS' (SIM CW),WHERE BOTH COMPONENTS ARE FAIRLY FAR FROM THEIR RLS(ALTHOUGH THEIR PERIODS ARE ESSENTIALLY LESSER THAN THOSE OF MS-SYSTEMS WITH THE SAME MASSES OF COMPONENTS ),AND THEIR PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS ARE IN MANY RESPECTS SIMILAR TO THOSE OF CW-SYSTEMS(SEE SVECHNIKOV(REF 142)).THE LIGHT CURVES OF 'SIM CW'-SYSTEMS HAVE ESSENTIAL PECULIARITIES,AND IN SPECTRA OF THESE SYSTEMS THE H-AND K-EMISSION LINES OF CA II ARE FREQUENTLY VISIBLE.LATELY,IN SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE, DESIGNATION OF THESE ECLIPSING BINARIES AS 'SHORT-PERIODIC RS C VN-TYPE SYSTEMS' IS WIDELY UTILIZED(SEE HALL(REF 1426;1349)). 6. THE 'AR LAC-TYPE SYSTEMS' (AR),IN WHICH THE HOTTER COMP IS USUALLY THE STAR OF SPECTRAL TYPE F OR G,AND OF IV-V LUMINOSITY CLASS,WHEREAS THE COLDER COMPONENT IS LATE G-OR EARLY K-STAR OF IV LUMINOSITY CLASS;BOTH COMPONENTS ARE ABOVE MAIN SEQUENCE ON H-R DIAGRAM.THE MASS OF THE MORE MASSIVE COMPONENT IS WITHIN THE LIMITS 1.2-1.7 SOLAR MASS,AND THE MASS-RATIO OF THE COMPONENTS IS NEAR TO 1.0.THE H-AND K-EMISSION LINES OF CA II ARE USUALLY OBTAINED IN SPECTRA OF AR-SYSTEMS;THEIR LIGHT CURVES ARE LARGELY DISTORTED AND PECULIAR AND THEY VARY ESSENTIALLY IN TIME.RECENTLY,A NUMBER OF AR-SYSTEMS WERE IDENTIFIED AS VARIABLE SOURCES OF RADIO-EMISSION AND AS SOURCES OF MILD X-RAY EMISSION(SEE, FOR EXAMPLE,SURVEY OF HALL(REF 1349)).THERE EXISTS INTENSIVE MASS-LOSS IN THE FORM OF 'STELLAR WIND' TIED TO THE 'CHROMOSPERIC ACTIVITY' OF THEIR COMPONENTS. THE PECULIARITIES AND CHANGES OF LIGHT CURVES OF AR-SYSTEMS,THEIR 'CHROMOSPHEPIC ACTIVITY' AND A NUMBER OF OTHER CHARACTERISTICS MAY BE WELL EXPLAINED IN TERMS OF THE 'CYCLIC SPOTTED ACTIVITY' MODEL,SIMILAR TO THAT OBSERVED FOR OUR SUN, BUT ON A MUCH GREATER SCALE.IN ASTRONOMICAL LITERATURE,RECENTLY(AFTER HALL'S (REF 1426;1349) PAPERS),AR-SYSTEMS HAVE OBTAINED THE NAME OF 'RS C VN-TYPE SYSTEMS';NOW,THIS DESIGNATION BECAME PRACTICALLY GENERALLY ACCEPTED. 7. THE ECLIPSING SYSTEMS,WHERE AT LEAST ONE COMPONENT APPEARS TO BE LATE GIANT OR SUPERGIANT(G-S). 8. THE CLOSE DOUBLE SYSTEMS,IN WHICH AT LEAST ONE OF THE COMPONENTS IS IN ADVANCED STAGE OF EVOLUTION,BEING A HOT SUBDWARF OR A WHITE DWARF(PLACED ON H-R DIAGRAM ESSENTIALLY TO THE LEFT FROM ZAMS(SD-WD).IN THIS TYPE,ONE MAY INCLUDE ALSO ECLIPSING BINARIES WITH WR-COMPONENTS,AS WELL AS THE SYSTEMS WITH 'COMPACT' COMPONENTS(I.E. NEUTRON STARS AND 'BLACK HOLES'). IN THE PRESENT CATALOGUE,WE STUDY ONLY THE ECLIPSING BINARY SYSTEMS OF TYPES 1.-6.;THE DATA ON THE RELATIVE AND ABSOLUTE ELEMENTS OF G-S-AND SD-WD- SYSTEMS WILL BE YIELDED ELSEWHERE. IN CONTRADISTINCTION TO SVECHNIKOV'S(REF 142) CATALOGUE,WE DO NOT SELECT IN THE SEPARATE GROUP SO-CALLED 'SUPERMASSIVE' SYSTEMS;THESE ECLIPSING BINARIES ARE INCLUDED IN PRESENT CATALOGUE IN NUMBER OF MASSIVE MS-SYSTEMS OR OF MASSIVE CE-SYSTEMS. SO LONG AS THERE ARE AMONG MS-AND SD-SYSTEMS THE STARS WITH HIGHLY DIFFERENT MASSES AND LUMINOSITIES,WE HAVE(FOLLOWING TO THE PRINCIPLE USED IN SVECHNIKOV'S(REF 142) CATALOGUE) DIVIDED THESE SYSTEMS INTO 4 GROUPS,WITH THE FAIRLY SIMILAR MASSES OF PRIMARIES COMPONENTS IN EACH GROUP.THE SAME DIVISION (INTO 3 DIFFERENT GROUPS:'MASSIVE SYSTEMS','SYSTEMS WITH INTERMEDIATE MASSES' AND 'LOW-MASSIVE SYSTEMS') WAS EFFECTUATED FOR CE-BINARIES;THE ANALOGOUS PROCEDURE MAY BE FULFILLED ALSO FOR US-SYSTEMS. THE SYSTEMS ATTRIBUTED TO EVERY TYPE(AND,WITHIN THE LIMITS OF ANY TYPE,TO EVERY GROUP) ARE ARRANGED IN THE PRINCIPAL TABLES II AND III OF OUR CATALOGUE IN ORDER OF DECREASING VALUES OF MASS-RATIO(Q) OF COMPONENTS(Q BEING ADOPTED ALWAYS AS THE RATIO OF MASS OF LESS MASSIVE COMPONENT TO THAT OF MORE MASSIVE COMPONENT,I.E.,IN OUR CATALOGUE,Q IS ALWAYS LESS(OR EQUAL) 1.0).SUCH ORDER OF ARRANGEMENT OF ECLIPSING BINARIES IS CONVENIENT FOR THE STATISTICAL STUDY OF THEYR PHYSICAL AND GEOMETRICAL CHARACTERISTICS,AND IT PERMITS TO DRAW SOME CONCLUSIONS ON THEIR CHANGES DEPENDING ON THE VALUE OF Q(THE VALUE OF Q,FOR CLOSE BINARY SISTEM,WHICH ARE STILL IN EARLY STAGES OF THEIR EVOLUTION,EXERTS INFLUENCE UPON THEIR FURTHER DESTINY;FOR THE SYSTEMS,WHICH HAVE UNDERGONE ALREADY 'PROCESS OF CHANGE OF ROLES',Q MAY BEAR WITNESS TO THEIR ORIGINAL CHARACTERISTICS). HOWEVER,FOR THE FINDING OF THE SYSTEMS IN THESE TABLES,SUCH ARRANGEMENT IS MUCH LESS CONVENIENT THAN THAT IN USUAL ORDER: BY CONSTELLATIONS.THAT'S WHY,FOR THE FACILITATION OF THE FINDING OF CERTAIN STAR IN THE PRICIPAL TABLES II AND III,WE HAVE COMPOSED THE AUXILARY TABLE I,WHERE ALL ECLIPSING BINARIES ARE DISPOSED BY CONSTELLATIONS.FOR EVERY SYSTEM,ITS TYPE AND(IF ANY EXISTS) GROUP IS INDICATED,AS WELL AS ITS NUMBER IN THE PRINCIPAL TABLES II AND III(FILES B AND C) OF OUR CATALOGUE.IDEM NUMBER IS GIVEN FOR EVERY SYSTEM ALSO IN THE NOTES(FILE D) TO THE TABLES II AND III,WHERE THE MAIN BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES CONCERNING THIS ECLIPSING BINARY ARE COMPILED,AND BRIEF OF ITS PHOTOMETRIC AND SPECTROSCOPIC ELEMENTS AS WELL AS OF ITS PRINCIPAL CHARACTERISTICS IS GIVEN.IN THE TABLE I,HD-NUMBER OF STAR(IF ANY EXIST) IS ALSO INDICATED. -//- -//- -//- -//- IN THE TABLE II(FILE B),THE PHOTOMETRIC ELEMENTS OF ECLIPSING BINARY SYSTEMS ARE GIVEN. COLUMN 1: THE NUMBER OF SYSTEM(INDICATED ALSO IN THE TABLES I AND III). COLUMN 2: THE VARIABLE STAR DESIGNATION. COLUMN 3: THE ORBITAL PERIOD OF THE SYSTEM IN DAYS.AN ASTERISK(*) IN THIS COLUMN INDICATES THE VARIABLITY OF PERIOD; AN MARK (*?) SIGNIFIES THE PROBABLE VARIABILITY OF PERIOD. COLUMN 4: THE TYPE OF ECLIPSE IN MIN I IS INDICATED(SEE APPROPRIATE ABBREVIATIONS BELOW,IN THE END OF FILE A). COLUMN 5 AND 6: THE MEAN FRACTIONAL RADII(OR THE SMALL EQUATORIAL SEMI-AXES OF ELLIPSOIDAL STARS,WHICH ARE,WITHIN THE LIMITS OF ERRORS OF EVALUATION OF PHOTOMETRIC ELEMENTS,PRACTICALLY EQUAL TO THE MEAN RADII) OF COMPONENTS, IN UNITS OF THE ORBITAL LARGE SEMI-AXIS. THE INDEX '1' APPERTAINS ALWAYS TO MORE MASSIVE COMPONENT,AND INDEX '2'-TO LESS MASSIVE STAR. COLUMN 7: THE RATIO OF THE LESSER EQUATORIAL SEMI-AXIS TO THE GREATER ONE (FOR ELLIPSOIDAL STARS): B-/A-.(HERE AND FURTER IN THE TABLES,IT IS INDICATED BY ASTERISK THAT THE APPROPRIATE DATA ARE GIVEN IN THE NOTES TO THE TABLES (FILE D),IN PARTICULAR,IN THE CASES OF DIFFERENT VALUES OF B-/A- FOR THE COMPONENTS OF SYSTEM.IT SHOULD ALSO TO BE NOTED,THAT ALL DESIGNATIONS MARKED BY SMALL LETTERS WILL BE ACCOMPANIED FURTHER BY MARK'-'(BECAUSE OF THE ABSENCE OF SMALL LETTERS IN THE LANGUAGE OF OUR ELECTRONIC COMPUTER(FOR EXAMPLE,SMALL 'A' WILL BE DESIGNATED AS 'A-',ETC.)). COLUMN 8: THE VALUE OF ORBITAL INCLINATION ANGLE(DESIGNATED FURTHER 'I'). COLUMN 9: THE VALUE OF UTILIZED COEFFICIENT OF LIMB-DARKENINS(X). IF THE VALUES OF X FROM THE COMPONENTS ARE NOT EQUAL,THEY ARE GIVEN IN THE NOTES TO THE TABLES(FILE D). COLUMNS 10 AND 11:THE FRACTIONAL LIGHTS OF COMPONENTS OF THE SYSTEM (IN UNITS OF L1+L2=1).IF THERE EXISTS AN ADDITIONAL LIGHT(L3) IN THE SYSTEM,THE VALUE OF L1 IN THE TABLE II IS ACCOMPANIED BY ASTERISC,AND APPROPRIATE DATA ON THE VALUE OF L3 ARE GIVEN IN THE NOTES(FILE D). COLUMN 12: THE RATIO OF SURFACE BRIGHTNESS OF MORE MASSIVE COMPONENT TO THAT OF LESS MASSIVE COMPONENT(J1/J2),FOUND FROM THE PHOTOMETRIC SOLUTION, IN CASE, IF THE GEOMETRIC ELEMENTS OF SYSTEM OBTAINED FROM SEVERAL DIFFERENT(BUT VERY SIMILAR) PHOTOMETRIC SOLUTIONS ARE AVERAGED,J1/J2 ARE CALCULATED WITH THE AVERAGED VALUES OF THE RADII OF COMPONENTS; THE NECESSARY NOTES ARE YIELDED IN THE FILE D. COLUMN 13: THE METHOD OF THE OBSERVATIONS OF THE LIGHT CURVE UTILIZED FOR THE PHOTOMETRIC SOLUTION,AND THE EFFECTIVE WAVELENGTH OF THE OBSERVATIONS. IF THE OBSERVATIONS ARE FULFILLED BY PHOTOMETRIC METHODS,DESIGNATION(PE) IN THIS COLUMN IS OMITTED,AND ONLY EFFECTIVE WAVELENGTH IS INDICATED. COLUMN 14: THE WEIGHT (W1),WHICH CHARACTERIZED THE RELIABILITY OF EVALUATION OF PHOTOMETRIC ELEMENTS(IN DECIMAL SCALE) IS GIVEN. AS TO THE CRITERIA ASSUMED AS BASIS OF THE ESTIMATIONS OF THE WEIGHTS OF PHOTOMETRIC ANL ABSOLUTE ELEMENTS ,SEE THE EXPLANATIONS GIVEN IN SVECHNIKOV'S (REF 142) CATALOGUE. COLUMN 15(COMMENTS):FIGURES '1' AND '2' DESIGNATE THE CASES,WHEN 2 ESSENTIALLY DIFFERENT VARIANTS OF THE PHOTOMETRIC SOLUTIONS FOR THE SAME ECLIPSING SYSTEM EXIST,AND WHEN WE ARE NOT ABLE TO PREFER ONE OF THESE CASES (AS A RULE,HOWEVER,ONLY THOSE PHOTOMETRIC SOLUTIONS ARE GIVEN IN TABLE II, WHICH SEEM TO BE(IN OPINION OF THE AUTHORS OF THIS CATALOGUE) THE MOST REALISTIC;THE DATA CONCERNING THE OTHER PHOTOMETRIC SOLUTIONS(OR CORRESPONDING BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES) ARE MENTIONED IN THE NOTES TO THE TABLES(FILE D)). -//- -//- -//- -//- IN THE TABLE III(FILE C) THE ABSOLUTE ELEMENTS OF ECLIPSING BINARY SYSTEMS ARE GIVEN. COLUMN 1: THE NUMBER OF SYSTEM(INDICATED ALSO IN THE TABLES I AND II) IS GIVEN. COLUMN 2: THE SPECTRAL TYPES OF THE COMPONENTS AND THEIR LUMINOSITY CLASSES. IN THE SQUARE BRACKETS,THE SPECTRA OF THE COMPONENTS COMPUTED FROM THE OBSERVATIONAL VALUES OF J1/J2 ,IN ASSUMPTION THAT BOTH COMPONENTS RADIATE AS ABSOLUTE BLACK BODIES,ARE GIVEN. COLUMN 3: THE RATIO OF THE MASS OF THE MORE MASSIVE COMPONENT TO THAT OF THE LESS MASSIVE ONE(Q).MASS-RATIOS FOUND SPECTROSCOPICALLY,FROM DOUBLE-LINED SPECTROSCOPIC ORBIT,ARE NOT ACCOMPANIED BY ADDITIONAL MARKS.THE VALUES OF Q ESTIMATED BY MEANS OF THE SO-CALLED 'M-L METHOD',USING THE MASS-FUNCTION OBTAINED FROM SINGLE-LINED SPECTRAL ORBIT,AND ASSUMING,THAT PRIMARY COMPONENT SATISFIES THE MASS-LUMINOSITY RELATION FOR THE MAIN-SEQUENCE-STARS(SEE KOPAL (REF 371;823);SVECHNIKOV(REF 142)),ARE ENCLOSED IN BRACKETS.THE VALUES OF Q ESTIMATED BY SOME OTHER METHOD,AS WELL AS AVERAGED VALUES OF Q ARE ACCOMPANIED BY THE ASTERISKS,THE APPROPRIATE COMMENTARIES ARE GIVEN IN THE FILE D. COLUMNS 4 AND 5: THE MASSES OF THE MORE MASSIVE COMPONENT AND OF THE LESS MASSIVE ONE(IN UNITS OF THE SOLAR MASS),RESPECTIVELY. COLUMNS 6 TO 8: THE VALUES OF ORBITAL MAJOR SEMI-AXIS,OR OF RADIUS OF THE MORE MASSIVE COMPONENT,AND OF THAT OF THE LESS MASSIVE ONE(IN UNITS OF THE SOLAR RADIUS),RESPECTIVELY. COLUMNS 9 AND 10: THE ABSOLUTE BOLOMETRIC MAGNITUDES OF THE MORE MASSIVE COMPONENT AND OF THE LESS MASSIVE ONE,RESPECTIVELY.THE ABSOLUTE BOLOMETRIC MAGNITUDES ARE COMPUTED,USING THE GEOMETRIC AND SPECTROSCOPIC CHARACTERISTICS OF THE COMPONENTS YIELDED IN THE PREVIOUS COLUMNS OF TABLE III;THE STELLAR EFFECTIVE TEMPERATURES GIVEN IN POPPER'S(REF 1615) SURVEY(AND BASED MAINLY ON THE SCALE OF EFFECTIVE TEMPERATURES AND BOLOMETRIC CORRECTIONS OF HAYES(REF 1623)) ARE UTILIZED. COLUMN 11: THE WEIGHT(W2),WHICH CHARACTERISED THE ACCURACY OF DETERMINATION OF THE ABSOLUTE ELEMENTS(IN 10-GRADE SCALE) IS GIVEN(AS TO THE CRITERIA UTILIZED FOR THE EVALUATION OF W2,SEE SVECHNIKOV'S(REF 142) CATALOGUE.) COLUMN 12(COMMENTS): FIGURES '1' AND '2' INDICATE THE CASES,WHEN 2 DIFFERENT VARIANTS OF THE ABSOLUTE ELEMENTS ARE OBTAINED(CORRESPONDING TO 'CASE 1' AND 'CASE 2' OF THE EVALUATION OF PHOTOMETRIC ELEMENTS OR TO 2 CONSIDERABLY DIFFERENT ESTIMATES OF Q).ALSO,IN THIS COLUMN,THE NUMBER OF THE GROUP FOR US-SYSTEMS IS INDICATED AS WELL AS SOME OTHER IMPORTANT REMARKS. IN ALL COLUMNS OF THE TABLES,THE MARK(:) INDICATED THE UNCERTAINTY IN DETERMINATION OF THE CORRESPONDING CHARACTERISTIC OF THE DISCUSSED ECLIPSING SYSTEM. IN FILE E(THE BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES),THE LIST OF THE PRINCIPAL BIBLIOGRAPHIC SOURCES UTILIZED IN COMPILLATION OF THE PRESENT CATALOGUE IS GIVEN.THE ABBREVIATIONS OF THE DESIGNATIONS OF FOREIGN EDITIONS ARE YIELDED MAINLY ACCORDING TO THE SYSTEM OF ABBREVIATIONS USED IN 'GENERAL CATALOGUE OF VARIABLE STARS(THIRD EDITION)' (G.C.V.S.) AND IN THE SUPPLEMENTS TO THIS CATALOGUE;THE ABBREVIATED DESIGNATIONS OF RUSSIAN EDITIONS ARE ADOPTED, FOLLOWING TO THE SYSTEM OF ABBREVIATIONS GIVEN IN 'ASTRONOMY ASTROPHYSICS ABSTRACTS',25,LIT.1979,PT.1,P.14. THE NOTES TO TABLES II AND III (FILE D) APPEAR TO BE VERY VOLUMINOUS;WE SUCCEEDED IN ESSENTIAL REDUCTION OF THIS PART OF OUR CATALOGUE BY THE USE OF THE NUMEROUS ABBREVIATIONS(SEE BELOW),AND BY THE OMISSION OF THE ARTICLES THROUGHOUT THE FILE D. IN THE TABLES OF OUR CATALOGUE(FILES B AND C) AND IN THE NOTES TO THESE TABLES(FILE D),THE FOLLOWING ABBREVIATIONS OF WORDS,OF THE GROUPS OF WORDS,AND OF SOME EXPRESSIONS AND OF DESIGNATIONS GENERALLY USED WERE UTILIZED: A -ANGSTR0M, ABC -ABSOLUTE, ABSORP -ABSORPTION, ADD -ADDITION,ADDITIONAL, APP -APPARENT, ASS -ASSOCIATION, ASYM -ASYMMETRY,ASYMMETRICAL, ATM -ATMOSPHERE,ATMOSPHERIC, AVG,AVGD -AVERAGE,AVERAGED, AX -AXIS,AXIAL, BOL -BOLOMETRIC, BR -BRIGHTNESS, CALC -CALCULATION,CALCULATED, CAT -CATALOGUE, CM -CENTIMETER, CH -CHARACTERISTIC, CIRC -CIRCULAR, CLASS -CLASSIFICATION, COEFF -COEFFICIENT, COL -COLORIMETRIC, COM -COMMENT, COMP -COMPONENT, CMPN -COMPANION, CF -CONFER, CONTIN -CONTINUOUS, CONST -CONSTANT, CORR -CORRECTED,CORRECTION, CRIT -CRITICAL, D -DAY, DEG -DEGREE, DIFF -DIFFERENT,DIFFERENCE, DISP -DISPERSION, DIST -DISTANCE, ECC -ECCENTRICITY, ED -EDITION,EDITOR, EFF -EFFECTIVE, EL -ELEMENTS, EM -EMISSION,EMISSIVE, ESP -ESPECIALLY, ESS -ESSENTIAL,ESSENTIALLY, EXP -EXPANSION, FLUCT -FLUCTUATION, GEOM -GEOMETRIC, G -GRAMME, GR. -GRAZING, H -HOUR, IR -INFRARED, INT -INTENSITY,INTENSIVE, INTERF -INTERFEROMETRIC, IONIZ -IONIZATION,IONIZED, K -KELVIN, KM -KILOMETRE, LUM -LUMINOSITY, MAG -MAGNITUDE, MAX -MAXIMUM, MEMB -MEMBER, MIN -MINIMUM, OBS -OBSERVATION(S), OBSD -OBSERVED, OBTD -OBTAINED, OC. -OCCULTATION, PC -PARSEC, P. -PARTIAL, PEC -PECULIAR, P -PERIOD, PH -PHASE, PE -PHOTOELECTRIC, PG -PHOTOGRAPHIC, PM -PHOTOMETRIC, PV -PHOTOVISUAL, PHYS -PHYSICAL, PRIM -PRIMARY, RAD -RADIUS, REF -REFERENCE, REL -RELATIVE, REV -REVOLUTION, ROT -ROTATION, SEC -SECOND, SECOND -SECONDARY, SIM -SIMILAR, SPM -SPECTROPHOTOMETRIC, SP -SPECTROSCOPIC, SPE -SPECTRUM(SPECTRA), SYM -SYMMETRY,SYMMETRICAL, SYNCHR -SYNCHRONOUS,SYNCHRONIZATION, SYST -SYSTEMATIC, T -TEMPERATURE, THEOR -THEORETICAL, TR. -TRANSIT, TRIG -TRIGONOMETRIC, UV -ULTRAVIOLET, UNC -UNCERTAIN, VAR -VARIABLE,VARIABILITY, VEL -VELOCITY, VS -VERSUS, VIS -VISUAL, VOL -VOLUME, WL -WAVELENGTH, YR -YEAR, A-N -ABOVE-NAMED, ABS EL -ABSOLUTE ELEMENTS, ABS MAG -ABSOLUTE MAGNITUDE, ACC TO -ACCORDING TO, APP MAG -APPARENT MAGNITUDE, A.U. -ASTRONOMICAL UNIT, CE -COLOUR EXCESS, CI -COLOUR INDEX, EB -ECLIPSING BINARY, EQ.W. -EQUIVALENT WIDTH, ETC. -ET CAETERA, I.E. -ID EST, KM/SEC -KILOMETRES PER SECOND, LC -LIGHT CURVE, LUM CL -LUMINOSITY CLASS, F(M) -MASS-FUNCTION, M-L -MASS-LUMINOSITY(RELATION), M-RAD -MASS-RADIUS(RELATION), MS -MAIN SEQUENCE, PM EL -PHOTOMETRIC ELEMENTS, P.E. -PROBABLE ERROR, RAD VEL -RADIAL VELOCITY, RVC -RADIAL VELOCITY CURVE, RL -ROCHE LOBE, ROT VEL -ROTATIONAL VELOCITY, S-AX -SEMI-AXIS, SP EL -SPECTROSCOPIC ELEMENTS, SPE1 -SPECTRUM OF PRIMARY COMPONENT, SPE2 -SPECTRUM OF SECONDARY COMPONENT, TAMS -TERMINAL-AGE MAIN SEQUENCE, V.V. -VICE VERSA, ZAMS -ZERO-AGE MAIN SEQUENCE, COMPS ESS