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The present catalogue includes two lists of objects.

List A: objects known to be particle accelerators and to be binary or higher multiplicity systems, or whose multiplicity has never been seriously investigated. This is the main part of the PACWB catalogue.
List B: objects proposed to be particle accelerators but still awaiting confirmation, or relevant to another scientific context than that of colliding-wind binaries

Since the first publication of the present catalogue, new inputs or changes may have been provided. The relevant information can be found in the journal of updates.

Please cite the following reference if you make use of this catalogue for your research:
De Becker, M. & Raucq, F. 2013, A&A, 558, A28 (ADS PDF)

If you make use of specific information about an object found in the present catalogue, but originally published in a previous paper, it is strongly encouraged to preferentially cite the original references given in the bibliography.

A follow-up paper has been published, addressing the issue of the fraction of particle-accelerating colliding-wind binaries:
De Becker, M., Benaglia, P., Romero, G.E. & Peri, C.S. 2017, A&A, 600, A47 (ADS PDF)

Michaël De Becker, Department of Astrophysics, Geophysics & Oceanography, University of Liège, Belgium; Michael.DeBecker[at]uliege.be