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	Astronomy and Astrophysics
	Vol. 393 No. 2 (October II 2002)
Cover illustration: Relativistic collapse of a rapidly rotating stellar core (Dimmelmeier, H., et al., p. 534)

Letters
• Cumulative light curves of gamma-ray bursts and relaxation systems     p. L29
  S. McBreen, B. McBreen, L. Hanlon and F. Quilligan
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• Astrometry of the stellar image of U Her amplified by the circumstellar 22 GHz water masers     p. L33
  W. H. T. Vlemmings, H. J. van Langevelde and P. J. Diamond
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• An unidentified TeV source in the vicinity of Cygnus OB2     p. L37
  F. Aharonian, A. Akhperjanian, M. Beilicke, K. Bernlöhr, H. Börst, H. Bojahr, O. Bolz, T. Coarasa, J. Contreras, J. Cortina, S. Denninghoff, V. Fonseca, M. Girma, N. Götting, G. Heinzelmann, G. Hermann, A. Heusler, W. Hofmann, D. Horns, I. Jung, R. Kankanyan, M. Kestel, J. Kettler, A. Kohnle, A. Konopelko, H. Kornmeyer, D. Kranich, H. Krawczynski, H. Lampeitl, M. Lopez, E. Lorenz, F. Lucarelli, N. Magnussen, O. Mang, H. Meyer, M. Milite, R. Mirzoyan, A. Moralejo, E. Ona, M. Panter, A. Plyasheshnikov, J. Prahl, G. Pühlhofer, G. Rauterberg, R. Reyes, W. Rhode, J. Ripken, A. Röhring, G. P. Rowell, V. Sahakian, M. Samorski, M. Schilling, F. Schröder, M. Siems, D. Sobzynska, W. Stamm, M. Tluczykont, H. J. Völk, C. A. Wiedner, W. Wittek (HEGRA Collaboration), Y. Uchiyama and T. Takahashi
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• Small-area molecular structures without shielding     p. L41
  A. Heithausen
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Cosmology
• Likelihood analysis of cosmic shear on simulated and VIRMOS-DESCART data     p. 369
  L. Van Waerbeke, Y. Mellier, R. Pelló, U.-L. Pen, H. J. McCracken and B. Jain
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• Cosmic Microwave Background anisotropies beyond the third peak     p. 381
  N. Aghanim, P. G. Castro, A. Melchiorri and J. Silk
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Extragalactic astronomy
• Rotation curves and metallicity gradients from HII regions in spiral galaxies     p. 389
  I. Márquez, J. Masegosa, M. Moles, J. Varela, D. Bettoni and G. Galletta
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• Time resolved spectral analysis of bright gamma ray bursts     p. 409
  G. Ghirlanda, A. Celotti and G. Ghisellini
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• XMM-Newton observation of the Lockman Hole - II. Spectral analysis     p. 425
  V. Mainieri, J. Bergeron, G. Hasinger, I. Lehmann, P. Rosati, M. Schmidt, G. Szokoly and R. Della Ceca
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• Environmental effects on the galaxy luminosity function in the cluster of galaxies Abell 496     p. 439
  F. Durret, C. Adami and C. Lobo
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• The bright optical afterglow of the long GRB 001007     p. 445
  J. M. Castro Cerón, A. J. Castro-Tirado, J. Gorosabel, J. Hjorth, J. U. Fynbo, B. L. Jensen, H. Pedersen, M. I. Andersen, M. López-Corredoira, O. Suárez, Y. Grosdidier, J. Casares, D. Pérez-Ramírez, B. Milvang-Jensen, G. Mallén-Ornelas, A. Fruchter, J. Greiner, E. Pian, P. M. Vreeswijk, S. D. Barthelmy, T. Cline, F. Frontera, L. Kaper, S. Klose, C. Kouveliotou, D. H. Hartmann, K. Hurley, N. Masetti, E. Mazets, E. Palazzi, H. S. Park, E. Rol, I. Salamanca, N. Tanvir, J. I. Trombka, R. A. M. J. Wijers, G. G. Williams and E. van den Heuvel
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• MOND rotation curves for spiral galaxies with Cepheid-based distances     p. 453
  R. Bottema, J. L. G. Pestaña, B. Rothberg and R. H. Sanders
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• The blue compact dwarf galaxy I Zw 18: A comparative study of its low-surface-brightness component     p. 461
  P. Papaderos, Y. I. Izotov, T. X. Thuan, K. G. Noeske, K. J. Fricke, N. G. Guseva and R. F. Green
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• The Hernquist model revisited: Completely analytical anisotropic dynamical models     p. 485
  M. Baes and H. Dejonghe
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• Is Messier 74 a barred spiral galaxy? - Near-infrared imaging of M 74     p. 499
  M. S. Seigar
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Formation, structure and evolution of stars
• Outflow from and asymmetries in the nebula around the LBV candidate Sk-69 279     p. 503
  K. Weis and W. J. Duschl
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• Rotation as a source of asymmetry in the double-peak lightcurves of the bright EGRET pulsars     p. 511
  J. Dyks and B. Rudak
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• Relativistic simulations of rotational core collapse II. Collapse dynamics and gravitational radiation     p. 523
  H. Dimmelmeier, J. A. Font and E. Müller
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• Predictions of variable mass loss for Luminous Blue Variables     p. 543
  Jorick S. Vink and A. de Koter
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• Long term behaviour of the double-mode high-amplitude Scuti star RV Arietis     p. 555
  M. D. Pócs, B. Szeidl and G. Virághalmy
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• Velocity variability of semiregular and irregular variables     p. 563
  T. Lebzelter and K. H. Hinkle
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• AGAPEROS: Searching for variable stars in the LMC Bar - II. Temporal and near-IR analysis of Long-Period Variables     p. 573
  T. Lebzelter, M. Schultheis and A. L. Melchior
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• Bright CO ro-vibrational emission lines in the class I source GSS 30 IRS1 - Probing the inner disk of a young embedded star     p. 585
  K. M. Pontoppidan, F. L. Schöier, E. F. van Dishoeck and E. Dartois
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• Exploring brown dwarf disks in Ophiuchi     p. 597
  A. Natta, L. Testi, F. Comerón, E. Oliva, F. D'Antona, C. Baffa, G. Comoretto and S. Gennari
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• On the use of CO/ CO as a test of common-envelope evolution     p. 611
  V. S. Dhillon, S. P. Littlefair, T. R. Marsh, M. J. Sarna and E. H. Boakes
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Stellar atmospheres
• Lithium 6104 Å in Population II stars     p. 617
  A. Ford, R. D. Jeffries, B. Smalley, S. G. Ryan, W. Aoki, S. Kawanomoto, D. J. James and J. R. Barnes
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Diffuse matter in space
• Pulsar bow-shock nebulae - III. Inclusion of a neutral component and H luminosity     p. 629
  N. Bucciantini
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The sun
• Two-dimensional distribution of oscillations in a quiescent solar prominence     p. 637
  J. Terradas, R. Molowny-Horas, E. Wiehr, H. Balthasar, R. Oliver and J. L. Ballester
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• A wavelet analysis of quasi-periodic variability across a solar coronal hole region     p. 649
  M. S. Marsh, R. W. Walsh and B. J. I. Bromage
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The solar system
• Distant stable direct orbits around the Moon     p. 661
  O. C. Winter and E. Vieira Neto
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• The influence on the spin vectors of asteroids from the Yarkovsky effect     p. 673
  E. Skoglöv
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Physical and chemical processes
• Generation of magnetic seed fields in self-gravitating protogalactic clouds     p. 685
  G. T. Birk, H. Wiechen and H. Lesch
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• Diffusion velocity and reactive thermal conductivity for shock waves propagating in the hydrogen gas     p. 693
  H. Le Coroller and D. Gillet
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• Analytic calculation of the parallel mean free path of heliospheric cosmic rays - I. Dynamical magnetic slab turbulence and random sweeping slab turbulence     p. 703
  A. Teufel and R. Schlickeiser
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Atomic and molecular data
• Transition probabilities in Gd III     p. 717
  E. Biémont, G. Kohnen and P. Quinet
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• Ion contribution to the astrophysical important 447.15, 587.56 and 667.82 nm He I spectral lines broadening     p. 721
  V. Milosavljevic and S. Djenize
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Instruments, observational techniques and data processing
• Observations of solar system objects with GAIA - I. Detection of NEOS     p. 727
  F. Mignard
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Computational methods
• Drifting sub-pulse analysis using the two-dimensional Fourier transform     p. 733
  R. T. Edwards and B. W. Stappers
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