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A&A Vol. 379 No. 3

	Astronomy and Astrophysics
	Vol. 379 No. 3 (December I 2001)
Cover illustration: The distribution of exoplanet masses m₂ extracted from the observed m₂sin i distribution (A Jorrissen, et al., pp. 994, 995)

Letters

Possible detection of hard X-ray afterglows of short $\gamma$ -ray bursts p. L39
D. Lazzati, E. Ramirez-Ruiz and G. Ghisellini
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Another bar in the Bulge p. L44
C. Alard
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Extragalactic astronomy

Radio monitoring of a sample of X-and $\vec{\gamma}$ -ray loud blazars p. 755
T. Venturi, D. Dallacasa, A. Orfei, M. Bondi, R. Fanti, L. Gregorini, F. Mantovani, C. Stanghellini, C. Trigilio and G. Umana
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Energy, entropy and mass scaling relations for elliptical galaxies. Towards a physical understanding of their photometric properties p. 767
I. Márquez, G. B. Lima Neto, H. Capelato, F. Durret, B. Lanzoni and D. Gerbal
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Stellar populations in NGC 5128 with the VLT: Evidence for recent star formation p. 781
M. Rejkuba, D. Minniti, D. R. Silva and T. R. Bedding
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H $\alpha$ emitting galaxies and the star formation rate density at $\vec{z}$ $\simeq$ 0.24 p. 798
S. Pascual, J. Gallego, A. Aragón-Salamanca and J. Zamorano
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Radio galaxies and magnetic fields in A514 p. 807
F. Govoni, G. B. Taylor, D. Dallacasa, L. Feretti and G. Giovannini
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Infrared to millimetre photometry of ultra-luminous IR galaxies : New evidence favouring a 3-stage dust model p. 823
U. Klaas, M. Haas, S. A. H. Müller, R. Chini, B. Schulz, I. Coulson, H. Hippelein, K. Wilke, M. Albrecht and D. Lemke
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The merger stage of the ultra-luminous infrared galaxy IRAS 03158+4227 p. 845
H. Meusinger, B. Stecklum, C. Theis and J. Brunzendorf
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Mkn 463 field observed by $\vec{Beppo}$ SAX p. 855
R. Landi and L. Bassani
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A pair of Seyferts identified from a ROSAT bright source p. 860
J.-H. Wu, Q.-R. Yuan, X.-T. He, W. Voges, R.-D. Nan, R. F. Green and X.-Z. Zhang
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The recent structural evolution of the SMC p. 864
F. Maragoudaki, M. Kontizas, D. H. Morgan, E. Kontizas, A. Dapergolas and E. Livanou
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Erratum: VLBA observations of GHz-Peaked-Spectrum radio sources at 15 GHz p. 870
C. Stanghellini, D. Dallacasa, C. P. O'Dea, S. A. Baum, R. Fanti and C. Fanti
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Stellar clusters and associations

Microlensing planets in M 22: Free-floating or bound? p. 872
R. de la Fuente Marcos and C. de la Fuente Marcos
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Formation, structure and evolution of stars

The light and period changes of RT Andromedae p. 878
A. Erdem, O. Demircan and M. Güre
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Variations of polarisation properties of OH maser emission from three semiregular variables p. 884
M. Szymczak, L. Blaszkiewicz, S. Etoka and A. M. Le Squeren
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HS 0705+6700: A new eclipsing sdB binary p. 893
H. Drechsel, U. Heber, R. Napiwotzki, R. Østensen, J.-E. Solheim, F. Johannessen, S. L. Schuh, J. Deetjen and S. Zola
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Spectroscopic monitoring of 10 new northern slowly pulsating B star candidates discovered from the HIPPARCOS mission p. 905
P. Mathias, C. Aerts, M. Briquet, P. De Cat, J. Cuypers, H. Van Winckel and J. M. Le Contel
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Statistics and supermetallicity: The metallicity of Mu Leonis p. 917
B. J. Taylor
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Erratum: Submillimeter lines from circumstellar disks around pre-main sequence stars p. 924
G.-J. van Zadelhoff, E. F. van Dishoeck, W.-F. Thi and G. A. Blake
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Stellar atmospheres

The warm circumstellar envelope and wind of the G9 IIb star HR 6902 p. 925
T. Kirsch, R. Baade and D. Reimers
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Non-LTE line-formation for neutral and singly-ionized carbon - Model atom and first results on BA-type stars p. 936
N. Przybilla, K. Butler and R. P. Kudritzki
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Non-LTE line formation for NI/II: Abundances and stellar parameters - Model atom and first results on BA-type stars p. 955
N. Przybilla and K. Butler
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Chromospheric activity, lithium and radial velocities of single late-type stars possible members of young moving groups ^, p. 976
D. Montes, J. López-Santiago, M. J. Fernández-Figueroa and M. C. Gálvez
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Formation and evolution of planetary systems

The distribution of exoplanet masses p. 992
A. Jorissen, M. Mayor and S. Udry
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The CORALIE survey for southern extra-solar planets - VI. New long period giant planets around HD 28185 and HD 213240 p. 999
N. C. Santos, M. Mayor, D. Naef, F. Pepe, D. Queloz, S. Udry and M. Burnet
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Diffuse matter in space

On the structure of self-gravitating molecular clouds p. 1005
V. Ossenkopf, R. S. Klessen and F. Heitsch
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Can stellar winds account for temperature fluctuations in H II regions? - The case of NGC 2363 p. 1017
V. Luridiana, M. Cerviño and L. Binette
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The temperature structure of dusty planetary nebulae p. 1024
G. Stasinska and R. Szczerba
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The sun

Noise reduction in helioseismic power spectra by non-orthogonal wavelets p. 1039
S. K. Solanki, C. Régulo, M. Fligge and A. G. Kosovichev
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Turbulent plasma model of the narrowband dm-spikes p. 1045
M. Bárta and M. Karlický
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Dynamics of the solar chromosphere - III. Ultraviolet brightness oscillations from TRACE p. 1052
J. M. Krijger, R. J. Rutten, B. W. Lites, Th. Straus, R. A. Shine and T. D. Tarbell
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Fast MHD oscillations in prominence fine structures p. 1083
A. J. Díaz, R. Oliver, R. Erdélyi and J. L. Ballester
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A weakly nonlinear Alfvénic pulse in a transversely inhomogeneous medium p. 1098
D. Tsiklauri, T. D. Arber and V. M. Nakariakov
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Wide-spectrum slow magnetoacoustic waves in coronal loops p. 1106
D. Tsiklauri and V. M. Nakariakov
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The solar system

Actinides: How well do we know their stellar production? p. 1113
S. Goriely and M. Arnould
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Physical and chemical processes

SPH simulations of clumps formation by dissipative collisions of molecular clouds - II. Magnetic case p. 1123
E. P. Marinho, C. M. Andreazza and J. R. D. Lépine
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Formation of a proto-quasar from accretion flows in a halo p. 1138
A. Mangalam
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Astrophysical significance of the anisotropic kinetic alpha effect p. 1153
A. Brandenburg and B. v. Rekowski
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Instruments, observational techniques and data processing

Sky confusion noise in the far-infrared: Cirrus, galaxies and the cosmic far-infrared background p. 1161
Cs. Kiss, P. Ábrahám, U. Klaas, M. Juvela and D. Lemke
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Computational methods

Initial magnetic field configurations for 3-dimensional simulations of astrophysical jets p. 1170
M. A. S. G. Jørgensen, R. Ouyed and M. Christensen
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