THE ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL SUPPLEMENT SERIES 103:433-466, 1996 April

     A CATALOG OF CANDIDATE FIELD HORIZONTAL-BRANCH AND A-TYPE STARS. II.

           TIMOTHY C. BEERS, RONALD WILHELM, AND STEPHEN P. DOINIDIS
        Department of Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State University,
                         East Lansing, Michigan 48824

                                      AND

                              CAROLINE J. MATTSON
  Department of Astronomy, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22904


                                   ABSTRACT

        We present coordinates and brightness estimates for 4175 candidate
     field horizontal-branch and A-type stars, in the magnitude range 10 <=
     B <= 15.5, selected using an objective-prism/interference-filter
     survey technique.  The candidates lie primarily in the northern
     Galactic hemisphere and complement a previously published sample of
     southern Galactic hemisphere candidates.  Available spectroscopy and
     photometry indicates that the great majority of the candidates are
     likely to be bona fide members of either the field blue horizontal-
     branch population or the blue, metal-deficient, high surface gravity
     stars referred to by Preston, Beers, & Schectman [1994, AJ, 108, 538]
     as BMP stars.  The remaining stars in the catalog are likely to be a
     mix of metal-deficient turnoff stars, metallic-line (Am) stars, field
     red horizontal-branch stars, optical doubles with overlapping
     objective-prism spectra, and (particularly among the fainter
     candidates) inadvertently included late-type stars.

     Subject headings: catalogs -- stars: horizontal-branch