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Introduction

Be/X-ray binaries form the largest subclass of High Mass X-ray Binaries (HMXBs). These objects attract interests of specialists in several branches of astrophysics: stellar astrophysics, accretion theory, close binary evolution, etc. In recent years because of new X-ray satellites data available on these sources has greatly increased (see a recent review and references in paper by Negueruela (2005)). In this paper (which is an extended and updated version of Popov & Raguzova (2004)) we present a compilative catalogue of these sources and provide brief comments on each source in the sample.



Natalya V. Raguzova 4 November 2008