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A&A Vol. 368 No. 2

	Astronomy and Astrophysics
	Vol. 368 No. 2 (March III 2001)
Cover illustration: Model of the inner envelope of IRC + 10216 on subarcsecond scale (Men'shchikov, A. B. et al., p.501)

Letters

On the duration of the subsonic propeller state of neutron stars in wind-fed mass-exchange close binary systems p. L5
N. R. Ikhsanov
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Seismic detection of stellar tachoclines p. L8
A. Mazumdar and H. M. Antia
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Cosmology

The elementary spike produced by a pure e ⁺e ^- pair-electromagnetic pulse from a Black Hole: The PEM Pulse p. 377
C. L. Bianco, R. Ruffini and S.-S. Xue
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Extragalactic astronomy

The brightness of SN 1991T and the uniformity of decline-rate and colour corrected absolute magnitudes of supernovae Ia p. 391
T. Richtler, J. B. Jensen, J. Tonry, B. Barris and G. Drenkhahn
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VLBI, MERLIN and HST observations of the giant radio galaxy 3C 236 p. 398
R. T. Schilizzi, W. W. Tian, J. E. Conway, R. Nan, G. K. Miley, P. D. Barthel, M. Normandeau, D. Dallacasa and L. I. Gurvits
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Deep imaging of Q2112+059: A bright host galaxy but no DLA absorber p. 408
J. U. Fynbo, P. Møller and B. Thomsen
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Millimeter observations of radio-loud active galaxies p. 414
I. M. van Bemmel and F. Bertoldi
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BeppoSAX spectroscopy of the luminous X-ray sources in M 33 p. 420
A. N. Parmar, L. Sidoli, T. Oosterbroek, P. A. Charles, G. Dubus, M. Guainazzi, P. Hakala, W. Pietsch and G. Trinchieri
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Search for new flat-spectrum radio sources p. 431
H. Teräsranta, S. Urpo, S. Wiren and M. Valtonen
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BeppoSAX observation of the rich cluster of galaxies Abell 85 p. 440
G. B. Lima Neto, V. Pislar and J. Bagchi
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Stellar clusters and associations

BeppoSAX study of the broad-band properties of luminous globular cluster X-ray sources p. 451
L. Sidoli, A. N. Parmar, T. Oosterbroek, L. Stella, F. Verbunt, N. Masetti and D. Dal Fiume
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Formation, structure and evolution of stars

Gamma-ray burst afterglows from jetted shocks in wind environments p. 464
L. J. Gou, Z. G. Dai, Y. F. Huang and T. Lu
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The circumstellar structure of the Be shell star $\mathsf{\phi}$ Persei - II. Modeling p. 471
W. Hummel and S. Stefl
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WSRT 1.4 and 5-GHz light curves for WR 147 (AS 431, WN8(h)+OB) p. 484
D. Y. A. Setia Gunawan, A. G. de Bruyn, K. A. van der Hucht and P. M. Williams
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Structure and physical properties of the rapidly evolving dusty envelope of IRC + 10216 reconstructed by detailed two-dimensional radiative transfer modeling p. 497
A. B. Men'shchikov, Y. Balega, T. Blöcker, R. Osterbart and G. Weigelt
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Conditions for shock revival by neutrino heating in core-collapse supernovae p. 527
H.-Th. Janka
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Cooling of hybrid neutron stars and hypothetical self-bound objects with superconducting quark cores p. 561
D. Blaschke, H. Grigorian and D. N. Voskresensky
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Spectroscopic confirmation of the optical identification of X-ray sources used to determine accurate positions for the anomalous X-ray pulsars 1E 2259+58.6 and 4U 0142+61 p. 569
M. van den Berg and F. Verbunt
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Multicolour observations of nearby visual double stars. New CCD measurements and orbits p. 572
P. Lampens and A. Strigachev
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Multimode $\mathsf{\delta}$ Scuti stars in the open cluster NGC 7062 p. 580
L. M. Freyhammer, T. Arentoft and C. Sterken
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Research Note Radial velocities of giant M stars near the ecliptic p. 593
D. Bettoni and G. Galletta
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Research Note The W Ursae Majoris system AK Herculis p. 595
Lifang Li, Fenghui Zhang and Zhanwen Han
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Stellar atmospheres

A search for the cause of cyclical wind variability in O stars - Simultaneous UV and optical observations including magnetic field measurements of the O7.5III star $\xi$ Persei p. 601
J. A. de Jong, H. F. Henrichs, L. Kaper, J. S. Nichols, K. Bjorkman, D. A. Bohlender, H. Cao, K. Gordon, G. Hill, Y. Jiang, I. Kolka, N. Morrison, J. Neff, D. O'Neal, B. Scheers and J. H. Telting
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Diffuse matter in space

Anomalous cosmic rays and the generation of energetic neutrals in the region beyond the termination shock p. 622
A. Czechowski, H. Fichtner, S. Grzedzielski, M. Hilchenbach, K. C. Hsieh, J. R. Jokipii, T. Kausch, J. Kota and A. Shaw
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Research Note Interstellar polarization at high galactic latitudes from distant stars - V. First results for the South Galactic Pole p. 635
A. Berdyugin and P. Teerikorpi
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The sun

Transition region oscillations above sunspots p. 639
A. Fludra
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Temporal height properties of the exploding granules p. 652
Th. Roudier, M. T. Eibe, J. M. Malherbe, M. Rieutord, P. Mein, N. Mein and M. Faurobert
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Nonlinear resonant absorption of fast magnetoacoustic waves due to coupling into slow continua in the solar atmosphere p. 662
R. Erdélyi, I. Ballai and M. Goossens
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The solar system

Forced precession models for six erratic comets p. 676
M. Królikowska, G. Sitarski and S. Szutowicz
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A fluorescence model of the C $\mathsf$ radical in comets p. 689
P. Rousselot, C. Arpigny, H. Rauer, A. L. Cochran, R. Gredel, W. D. Cochran, J. Manfroid and A. Fitzsimmons
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The orbit evolution of 32 plutinos over 100 million year p. 700
X.-S. Wan and T.-Y. Huang
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Celestial mechanics and astrometry

Near-integrability as a numerical tool in solar system dynamics p. 706
M. Kaasalainen and T. Laakso
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Physical and chemical processes

Laboratory and astrophysical detection of the hyperfine structure of the ${\vec J}$ = 1-0 rotational transition of HC $\mathsf}$ O ⁺ p. 712
L. Dore, G. Cazzoli and P. Caselli
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Chaos in pseudo-Newtonian black holes with halos p. 716
E. Guéron and P. S. Letelier
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Atomic and molecular data

Laboratory investigation of crystallisation in annealed amorphous MgSiO $\mathsf$ p. 721
S. P. Thompson and C. C. Tang
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Instruments, observational techniques and data processing

Entropy and astronomical data analysis: Perspectives from multiresolution analysis p. 730
J.-L. Starck, F. Murtagh, P. Querre and F. Bonnarel
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Research Note Hexagonal configuration of cross-correlation interferometers p. 747
L. G. Sodin and L. E. Kopilovich
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