Table 8: Quantities extracted from the HIPPARCOS catalogue for our sample stars ((B-V) and E(B-V) are given in Table 4). The whole table is available on-line.

HIP	V	Plx	e_Plx	d	VI
	mag	(mas)	(mas)	(pc)
911	11.80	6.13	5.67	163	0.64
3026	9.25	9.57	1.38	104	0.54
3446	12.10	15.15	3.24	66	0.58
3564	10.60	2.07	2.16	483	0.67
8572	10.34	3.22	1.75	310	0.50
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