The characters in this field have the following meaning:
[][ O:] the orbit of the system is known.
[ A:] the star is a known astrometric binary.
[ *:] the astrometric binary is also a member of an orbital system
(details are given in Annex 1).
The Meudon Hipparcos Input Catalogue Team
mer 16 nov 15:51:31 MET 1994