Nearby Hipparcos Eclipsing Binaries for Color-Surface Brightness Calibration

Abstract

This paper contains the list of Hipparcos eclipsing binaries that fulfill the following conditions: the star is classified in the Hipparcos Catalogue as EA-type eclipsing binary and its parallax is either larger than 5 mas or it is five times larger than its mean error. An eclipsing binary with known distance and with photometric and double-line spectroscopic orbits determined can be used in the process of calibrating the relation between the stellar surface brightness and the color that is crucial for the method of the distance determination by means of eclipsing binaries. This list is being published in order to draw attention of observers using small telescopes to these bright, potentially useful and in the most cases poorly observed objects. The advantages of the eclipsing binary method of the distance determination are discussed.