We show that the relative Auslander-Buchweitz context on a triangulated category $\T$ coincides with the notion of co-$t$-structure on certain triangulated subcategory of $\T$ (see Theorem \ref{ M2}). In the Krull-Schmidt case, we stablish a bijective correspondence between co-$t$-structures and cosuspended, precovering subcategories (see Theorem \ref{ correspond}). We also give a characterization of bounded co-$t$-structures in terms of relative homological algebra. The relationship between silting classes and co-$t$-structures is also studied. We prove that a silting class $\omega$ induces a bounded non-degenerated co-$t$-structure on the smallest thick triangulated subcategory of $\T$ containing $\omega.$ We also give a description of the bounded co-$t$-structures on $\T$ (see Theorem \ref{ Msc}). Finally, as an application to the particular case of the bounded derived category $\D(\HH),$ where $\HH$ is an abelian hereditary category which is Hom-finite, Ext-finite and has a tilting object (see \cite{ HR}), we give a bijective correspondence between finite silting generator sets $\omega=\add\,(\omega)$ and bounded co-$t$-structures (see Theorem \ref{ teoH}).
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