  High-mass X-ray binaries (HMXBs) are a particular class of high-energy
sources that require multi-wavelength observational efforts to be properly
characterised. New identifications and the refinement of previous measurements
are regularly published in the literature by independent teams of researchers
and might, when they are collected in a catalogue, offer a tool for
facilitating further studies of HMXBs. We update previous instances of HMXB
catalogues in the Galaxy and provide the community easy access to the most
complete set of observables on Galactic HMXBs. In addition to the fixed version
that is available in Vizier, we also aim to host and maintain a dynamic version
that can be updated upon request from users. Any modification will be logged in
this version. Using previous HMXB catalogues supplemented by listings of hard
X-ray sources detected in the past 20 years, we produced a base set of HMXBs
and candidates by means of identifier and sky coordinate cross matches. We
queried in Simbad for unreferenced HMXBs. We searched for as many hard X-ray,
soft X-ray, optical, and infrared counterparts to the HMXBs as we could in
well-known catalogues and compiled their coordinates. Each HMXB was subjected
to a meticulous search in the literature to find relevant measurements and the
original reference. We provide a catalogue of 152 HMXBs in the Galaxy with
their best known coordinates, the spectral type of the companion star, systemic
radial velocities, component masses, orbital period, eccentricity, and spin
period when available. We also provide the coordinates and identifiers for each
counterpart we found from hard X-rays to the near-infrared, including 111
counterparts from the recent Gaia DR3 catalogue.
