Rotational velocities of nearby HIP B stars

The stars are located within ~1.5kpc from the Sun, and the great majority within 700pc. The analysis is based on high-resolution spectra obtained with the MIKE spectrograph on the Magellan Clay 6.5m telescope at the Las Campanas Observatory in Chile.

Spectral types were estimated based on relative intensities of some key line absorption ratios and comparisons to synthetic spectra. Effective temperatures were estimated from the reddening-free Q index, and projected rotational velocities were then determined via interpolation on a published grid that correlates the synthetic FWHM of the He_I_ lines at 4026, 4388 and 4471{AA} with vsini. As the sample has been selected solely on the basis of spectral types, it contains a selection of B stars in the field, in clusters, and in OB associations.