ROTATIONAL VELOCITIES OF F-DWARFS - APPLICATION OF THE FOURIER-BESSELTRANSFORMATION METHOD

Projected rotational velocities are presented for 178 bright dwarf sta rs (V <7) with spectral types in the range A8 till G2. These rotationa l velocities have been determined by Fourier-Bessel transformation of the line profiles of six Fe I absorption lines in a 50 Angstrom wide r ange centered on 6250 Angstrom. Rotational velocities of stars with su spected velocities of more than 40 km/s were also determined by fittin g the whole spectral range with a profile of a slowly rotating star of the same spectral type that has been convolved with a rotation profil e. The agreement between the results obtained with these two methods i s very good.