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	Astronomy and Astrophysics
	Vol. 433 No. 2 (April II 2005)
Cover illustration: Three color image (V, I and Ks band) of the starburst galaxy NGC 5253 (Cresci, G., et al., p. 449)

Letters
• INTEGRAL discovery of persistent hard X-ray emission from the Soft Gamma-ray Repeater SGR 1806-20     p. L9
  S. Mereghetti, D. Götz, I. F. Mirabel and K. Hurley
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• The broad-band spectrum of the persistent emission from SGR 1806-20     p. L13
  S. Molkov, K. Hurley, R. Sunyaev, P. Shtykovsky, M. Revnivtsev and C. Kouveliotou
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• Exceptional H emission in the Antennae galaxies: Pre-starburst shocks from the galaxy collision     p. L17
  M. Haas, R. Chini and U. Klaas
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• A planet-sized transiting star around OGLE-TR-122 - Accurate mass and radius near the hydrogen-burning limit     p. L21
  F. Pont, C. H. F. Melo, F. Bouchy, S. Udry, D. Queloz, M. Mayor and N. C. Santos
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• VPMS J1342+2840 - an unusual quasar from the variability and proper motion survey     p. L25
  H. Meusinger, D. Froebrich, M. Haas, M. Irwin, M. Laget and R.-D. Scholz
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• Burst of strongly polarized maser emission at 1612 MHz in the proto-planetary nebula OH17.7-2.0     p. L29
  M. Szymczak and E. Gérard
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• HST/NICMOS observations of a proto-brown dwarf candidate     p. L33
  D. Apai, L. V. Tóth, T. Henning, R. Vavrek, Z. Kovács and D. Lemke
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• How does disk gravity really influence type-I migration?     p. L37
  A. Pierens and J.-M. Huré
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• Discovery of X-ray pulsations from IGR J16320-4751 = AX J1631.9-4752     p. L41
  A. Lutovinov, J. Rodriguez, M. Revnivtsev and P. Shtykovskiy
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Astrophysical processes
• Observing a Schwarzschild black hole with finite precision     p. 397
  F. Debbasch and Y. Ollivier
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Research Note

• On highly eccentric stellar trajectories interacting with a self-gravitating disc in Sgr A     p. 405
  L. Subr and V. Karas
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Cosmology (including clusters of galaxies)
• RASS-SDSS galaxy cluster survey - II. A unified picture of the cluster luminosity function     p. 415
  P. Popesso, H. Böhringer, M. Romaniello and W. Voges
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• RASS-SDSS galaxy cluster survey - III. Scaling relations of galaxy clusters     p. 431
  P. Popesso, A. Biviano, H. Böhringer, M. Romaniello and W. Voges
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Extragalactic astronomy
• The star cluster population of NGC 5253     p. 447
  G. Cresci, L. Vanzi and M. Sauvage
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• The XMM-Newton view of three X-ray weak quasars: Iron emission and strong ionized absorption     p. 455
  N. Schartel, P. M. Rodríguez-Pascual, M. Santos-Lleó, J. Clavel, M. Guainazzi, E. Jiménez-Bailón and E. Piconcelli
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• Ageing analysis of the giant radio galaxy J1343+3758     p. 467
  M. Jamrozy, J. Machalski, K.-H. Mack and U. Klein
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• Correlation between the TeV and X-ray emission in high-energy peaked BL Lac objects     p. 479
  K. Katarzynski, G. Ghisellini, F. Tavecchio, L. Maraschi, G. Fossati and A. Mastichiadis
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• Nearby early-type galaxies with ionized gas - I. Line-strength indices of the underlying stellar population     p. 497
  R. Rampazzo, F. Annibali, A. Bressan, M. Longhetti, F. Padoan and W. W. Zeilinger
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• Investigating the EGRET-radio galaxies link with INTEGRAL: The case of 3EG J1621+8203 and NGC 6251     p. 515
  L. Foschini, M. Chiaberge, P. Grandi, I. A. Grenier, M. Guainazzi, W. Hermsen, G. G. C. Palumbo, J. Rodriguez, S. Chaty, S. Corbel, G. Di Cocco, L. Kuiper and G. Malaguti
  Abstract | Full HTML | PDF file (153 KB) | PS file (55.0 KB) | References



• Kinematic and chemical evolution of early-type galaxies     p. 519
  B. L. Ziegler, D. Thomas, A. Böhm, R. Bender, A. Fritz and C. Maraston
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Research Note

• Was the Narrow Line Seyfert 1 RGB J0044+193 ever radio loud?     p. 531
  T. J. Maccarone, J. C. A. Miller-Jones, R. P. Fender and G. G. Pooley
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Interstellar and circumstellar matter
• Chemical evolution in the environment of intermediate mass young stellar objects - NGC 7129 - FIRS 2 and LkH 234     p. 535
  A. Fuente, J. R. Rizzo, P. Caselli, R. Bachiller and C. Henkel
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• Dust temperature and density profiles in the envelopes of AGB and post-AGB carbon stars from mid-infrared observations     p. 553
  E. Lagadec, D. Mékarnia, J. A. de Freitas Pacheco and C. Dougados
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• Triggered massive-star formation on the borders of Galactic H II regions - I. A search for "collect and collapse" candidates     p. 565
  L. Deharveng, A. Zavagno and J. Caplan
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• The identification of PM 1-322 as a new young high-density planetary nebulae     p. 579
  C. B. Pereira and L. F. Miranda
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• Formation and photostability of N-heterocycles in space - I. The effect of nitrogen on the photostability of small aromatic molecules     p. 583
  Z. Peeters, O. Botta, S. B. Charnley, Z. Kisiel, Y.-J. Kuan and P. Ehrenfreund
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Stellar structure and evolution
• Orbits of new Hipparcos binaries. I     p. 591
  I. I. Balega, Y. Y. Balega, K.-H. Hofmann, E. A. Pluzhnik, D. Schertl, Z. U. Shkhagosheva and G. Weigelt
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• Abundances of C, N, O in slightly evolved stars in the globular clusters NGC 6397, NGC 6752 and 47 Tuc     p. 597
  E. Carretta, R. G. Gratton, S. Lucatello, A. Bragaglia and P. Bonifacio
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• 1E 1740.7-2942: Temporal and spectral evolution from INTEGRAL and RXTE observations     p. 613
  M. Del Santo, A. Bazzano, A. A. Zdziarski, D. M. Smith, N. Bezayiff, R. Farinelli, G. De Cesare, P. Ubertini, A. J. Bird, M. Cadolle Bel, F. Capitanio, A. Goldwurm, A. Malizia, I. F. Mirabel, L. Natalucci and C. Winkler
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• Two-dimensional structure of thin transonic discs: Theory and observational manifestations     p. 619
  V. Beskin and A. Tchekhovskoy
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• BS Indi: An enigmatic object in the Tucana association     p. 629
  E. W. Guenther, E. Covino, J. M Alcalá, M. Esposito and R. Mundt
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• A serendipitous XMM-Newton observation of the intermediate polar WX Pyx     p. 635
  E. M. Schlegel
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Stellar atmospheres
• Fluorine in extremely hot post-AGB stars: Evidence for nucleosynthesis     p. 641
  K. Werner, T. Rauch and J. W. Kruk
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• Spectroscopic determination of photospheric parameters and chemical abundances of 6 K-type stars^,     p. 647
  L. Affer, G. Micela, T. Morel, J. Sanz-Forcada and F. Favata
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• Metallicities of the Cephei stars from low-resolution ultraviolet spectra     p. 659
  E. Niemczura and J. Daszynska-Daszkiewicz
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• Stellar model atmospheres with magnetic line blanketing     p. 671
  O. Kochukhov, S. Khan and D. Shulyak
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The Sun
• Observational evidence of the primary role played by photospheric motions in magnetic helicity transport before a filament eruption     p. 683
  P. Romano, L. Contarino and F. Zuccarello
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• Low-frequency modulations in the solar microwave radiation as a possible indicator of inductive interaction of coronal magnetic loops     p. 691
  M. L. Khodachenko, V. V. Zaitsev, A. G. Kislyakov, H. O. Rucker and S. Urpo
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• Comparing magnetic field extrapolations with measurements of magnetic loops     p. 701
  T. Wiegelmann, A. Lagg, S. K. Solanki, B. Inhester and J. Woch
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• What causes the 24-day period observed in solar flares?     p. 707
  M. Temmer, J. Rybák, A. Veronig and A. Hanslmeier
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Research Note

• Monte Carlo simulation of solar p-mode profiles revisited: Bias and uncertainty estimation from one, not many, fits     p. 713
  T. Toutain, Y. Elsworth and W. J. Chaplin
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Atomic, molecular and nuclear data
• Atomic data from the IRON Project - LVIII. Electron impact excitation of     p. 717
  P. J. Storey, G. Del Zanna, H. E. Mason and C. J. Zeippen
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• Benchmarking atomic data for astrophysics: Fe XII     p. 731
  G. Del Zanna and H. E. Mason
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• Energy levels and transition probabilities for nitrogen-like Fe xx     p. 745
  V. Jonauskas, P. Bogdanovich, F. P. Keenan, M. E. Foord, R. F. Heeter, S. J. Rose, G. J. Ferland, R. Kisielius, P. A. M. van Hoof and P. H. Norrington
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On-line catalogs and data
• Imaging and photometry of nearby dwarf galaxies - II. Southern dwarfs     p. 751
  L. N. Makarova, I. D. Karachentsev, E. K. Grebel, D. Harbeck, G. G. Korotkova and D. Geisler
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• New optical polarization measurements of quasi-stellar objects. The data     p. 757
  D. Sluse, D. Hutsemékers, H. Lamy, R. Cabanac and H. Quintana
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