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A&A Vol. 367 No. 2

	Astronomy and Astrophysics
	Vol. 367 No. 2 (February IV 2001)
Cover illustration: Multi-wavelenght images of the nearest Seyfert 2 galaxy NGC 1068 (Le Floc'h, E., et al. p.489)

Letters

Discovery of anomalous oxygen isotopic ratios in HR 4049 p. L1
J. Cami and I. Yamamura
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Cosmology

Confirmation of the existence of coherent orientations of quasar polarization vectors on cosmological scales p. 381
D. Hutsemékers and H. Lamy
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Extragalactic astronomy

The chemical abundances in a sample of dwarf irregular galaxies - I. Small scale variations within NGC 6822? p. 388
A. M. Hidalgo-Gámez, K. Olofsson and J. Masegosa
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Optical surface photometry of a sample of disk galaxies - II. Structural components p. 405
M. Prieto, J. A. L. Aguerri, A. M. Varela and C. Muñoz-Tuñón
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Growth of galactic bulges by mergers - I. Dense satellites p. 428
J. A. L. Aguerri, M. Balcells and R. F. Peletier
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Transition from regular motion to chaos in a logarithmic potential p. 443
G. I. Karanis and N. D. Caranicolas
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Relativistic corrections to fractal analyses of the galaxy distribution p. 449
M.-N. Célérier and R. Thieberger
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Molecular gas conditions in NGC 4945 and the Circinus galaxy p. 457
S. J. Curran, L. E. B. Johansson, P. Bergman, A. Heikkilä and S. Aalto
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X-ray variability in a complete sample of Soft X-ray selected AGN p. 470
D. Grupe, H.-C. Thomas and K. Beuermann
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Mid-Infrared observations of NGC 1068 with the Infrared Space Observatory p. 487
E. Le Floc'h, I. F. Mirabel, O. Laurent, V. Charmandaris, P. Gallais, M. Sauvage, L. Vigroux and C. Cesarsky
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Research Note: Accurate positions of candidate planetary nebulae in M 33 p. 498
L. Magrini, A. Cardwell, R. L. M. Corradi, A. Mampaso and M. Perinotto
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Formation, structure and evolution of stars

Could the unusual optical afterglow of GRB 000301c arise from a non-relativistic shock with energy injection? p. 501
Z. G. Dai and T. Lu
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Early time optical spectroscopy of supernova SN 1998S p. 506
G. C. Anupama, T. Sivarani and G. Pandey
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On winds from giants in binary systems p. 513
A. Frankowski and R. Tylenda
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Catalogue of Apparent Diameters and Absolute Radii of Stars (CADARS) - Third edition -Comments and statistics p. 521
L. E. Pasinetti Fracassini, L. Pastori, S. Covino and A. Pozzi
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Gravitational radiation from young magnetars: Preliminary results p. 525
C. Palomba
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Near-IR and visible interferometry of Be stars: Constraints from wind models p. 532
Ph. Stee and J. Bittar
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On the origin of quiescent X-ray emission from A0535+26 p. 549
N. R. Ikhsanov
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A census of AGB stars in Local Group galaxies - I. Photometry of a field in M 31 p. 557
W. Nowotny, F. Kerschbaum, H. E. Schwarz and H. Olofsson
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High velocity structures in, and the X-ray emission from the LBV nebula around $\eta$ Carinae p. 566
K. Weis, W. J. Duschl and D. J. Bomans
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Search for indications of fast rotation in the linear polarization of the magnetic white dwarf Grw+70o8247 p. 577
S. Friedrich and S. Jordan
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On the minimum and maximum mass of neutron stars and the delayed collapse p. 582
K. Strobel and M. K. Weigel
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The dwarf nova binary system BV Puppis p. 588
A. Bianchini, W. Skidmore, J. M. Bailey, S. Howell and R. Canterna
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Stellar atmospheres

Elemental abundance analyses with DAO spectrograms - XXIV. The Mercury Manganese stars $\upsilon$ Her, $\phi$ Her, and HR 7018 p. 597
Saul J. Adelman, A. F. Gulliver and K. E. Rayle
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Magellanic Clouds elemental abundances from F supergiants: Revisited results for the Large Magellanic Cloud p. 605
S. M. Andrievsky, V. V. Kovtyukh, S. A. Korotin, M. Spite and F. Spite
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Diffuse matter in space

An attempt to identify the extended synchrotron structure associated with the micro-quasar GRS 1915+105 p. 613
M. Ostrowski and E. Fürst
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Local clouds: Ionization, temperatures, electron densities and interfaces, from GHRS and IMAPS spectra of $\mathsf{\epsilon}$ Canis Majoris p. 617
C. Gry and E. B. Jenkins
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X-ray emission in the direction of the SNR G318.2+0.1 p. 629
F. Bocchino, A. N. Parmar, S. Mereghetti, M. Orlandini, A. Santangelo and L. Angelini
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The galactic plane region near $\mathsf{\ell=93^\circ}$ - I. HII region NRAO 655 p. 635
T. Foster and D. Routledge
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Low-excitation atomic gas around evolved stars - I. ISO observations of C-rich nebulae p. 652
D. Fong, M. Meixner, A. Castro-Carrizo, V. Bujarrabal, W. B. Latter, A. G. G. M. Tielens, D. M. Kelly and E. C. Sutton
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Low-excitation atomic gas around evolved stars - II. ISO observations of O-rich nebulae p. 674
A. Castro-Carrizo, V. Bujarrabal, D. Fong, M. Meixner, A. G. G. M. Tielens, W. B. Latter and M. J. Barlow
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L 1274: A multiwavelength study of a dark cloud in the Cep -Cas void p. 694
S. Nikolic, Cs. Kiss, L. E. B. Johansson, J. G. A. Wouterloot and L. Viktor Tóth
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The sun

Parametric decay of circularly polarized Alfvén waves: Multidimensional simulations in periodic and open domains p. 705
L. Del Zanna, M. Velli and P. Londrillo
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Celestial mechanics and astrometry

CCD astrometry of faint compact extragalactic radio sources. II. p. 719
E. Costa
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High proper motion stars with declinations between $\mathsf{-30^\circ}$ and $\mathsf{-40^\circ}$ , and right ascensions between 00 h and 10 h 40 m p. 725
H. Wroblewski and E. Costa
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Effective stability of the Trojan asteroids p. 729
Ch. Skokos and A. Dokoumetzidis
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Physical and chemical processes

Stark widths and shifts of triply ionized argon spectral lines p. 737
S. Djenize, S. Bukvic and D. Miskovic
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