  This is the first paper of a series aimed at studying the properties of
late-type stars members of young stellar kinematic groups. We concentrate our
study on classical young moving groups as: Local Association (Pleiades moving
group, 20 - 150 Myr), IC 2391 supercluster (35 Myr), Ursa Major group (Sirius
supercluster, 300 Myr), and Hyades supercluster (600 Myr); as well as on
recently identified groups as: Castor moving group (200 Myr). In this paper we
have compiled a preliminary list of single late-type stars possible members of
some of these young stellar kinematic groups. Stars have been selected from
previously established members of stellar kinematic groups based on photometric
and kinematic properties as well as from candidates based on other criteria as
their level of chromospheric activity, rotation rate, lithium abundance.
Precise measurements of proper motions and parallaxes taken from Hipparcos
Catalogue, as well as from Tycho-2 Catalogue, and published radial velocity
measurements are used to calculate the Galactic space motions (U, V, W) and to
apply the Eggen's kinematic criteria in order to determine the membership of
the selected stars to the different groups. Additional criteria using
age-dating methods for late-type stars will be applied in forthcoming papers of
this series. A further study of the list of stars compiled here could lead to a
better understanding of the chromospheric activity and their age evolution as
well as of the star formation history in the solar neighbourhood. In addition,
these stars are also potential search targets for direct imaging detection of
sub-stellar companions.
