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A&A Vol. 373 No. 3

	Astronomy and Astrophysics
	Vol. 373 No. 3 (July III 2001)
Cover illustration: Images (green-white) and difference images of the solar corona at 19.5 nm wavelength (EIT/SoHO, 14 July 2000) (Klein, K.-L., et al., p. 1076)

Letters

Detection and measurement of planetary systems with GAIA p. L21
A. Sozzetti, S. Casertano, M. G. Lattanzi and A. Spagna
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Sub-milliarcsec-scale structure of the gravitational lens B1600+434 p. L25
A. R. Patnaik and A. J. Kemball
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NICS-TNG infrared spectroscopy of trans-neptunian objects 2000 EB173 and 2000 WR106 p. L29
J. Licandro, E. Oliva and M. Di Martino
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Self-similarity of clusters of galaxies and the $L_{\sf X}{-} T$ relation p. L33
D. M. Neumann and M. Arnaud
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Identification of the donor in the X-ray binary GRS 1915+105 p. L37
J. Greiner, J. G. Cuby, M. J. McCaughrean, A. J. Castro-Tirado and R. E. Mennickent
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Cosmology

The Ly $\alpha$ forest at $\mathsf{1.5 < {\vec z} < 4}$ ^, p. 757
T.-S. Kim, S. Cristiani and S. D'Odorico
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Estimating the power-law of the two-point correlation function - An analytical investigation of several estimation procedures p. 782
M. Snethlage
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Extragalactic astronomy

An hydrodynamical model of the barred galaxy NGC 5850 p. 786
J. A. L. Aguerri, J. H. Hunter, M. Prieto, A. M. Varela, S. T. Gottesman and C. Muñoz-Tuñón
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The optical afterglow and host galaxy of GRB 000926 p. 796
J. U. Fynbo, J. Gorosabel, T. H. Dall, J. Hjorth, H. Pedersen, M. I. Andersen, P. Møller, S. Holland, I. Smail, N. Kobayashi, E. Rol, P. Vreeswijk, I. Burud, B. L. Jensen, B. Thomsen, A. Henden, F. Vrba, B. Canzian, J. M. Castro Cerón, A. J. Castro-Tirado, T. Cline, M. Goto, J. Greiner, M. T. Hanski, K. Hurley, N. Lund, T. Pursimo, R. Østensen, J. Solheim, N. Tanvir and H. Terada
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XMM-Newton observation of the Seyfert 1 galaxy Fairall 9 p. 805
P. Gondoin, D. Lumb, H. Siddiqui, M. Guainazzi and N. Schartel
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A near-solar metallicity damped Lyman- $\alpha$ system toward the BAL quasar Tol 1037-2703 p. 816
R. Srianand and P. Petitjean
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Gas cooling within the diffuse ISM of late-type galaxies p. 827
D. Pierini, J. Lequeux, A. Boselli, K. J. Leech and H. J. Völk
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Argon, silicon and iron abundances in the damped Ly- $\alpha$ system I Zw 18 p. 836
S. A. Levshakov, W. H. Kegel and I. I. Agafonova
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Unified model for quasar absorption line systems p. 843
S. Das, P. Khare and A. Samantray
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Warm gas in central regions of nearby galaxies - Extended mapping of CO(3-2) emission p. 853
M. Dumke, Ch. Nieten, G. Thuma, R. Wielebinski and W. Walsh
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Research Note: An optical inverse-Compton hotspot in 3C 196? p. 881
M. J. Hardcastle
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Galactic structure and dynamics

Early galaxy evolution from deep wide field star counts - II. First estimate of the thick disc mass function p. 886
C. Reylé and A. C. Robin
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Analysis of RGU photometry in selected Area 141 p. 895
Y. Karatas, S. Karaali and R. Buser
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Stellar clusters and associations

Clusters AgeS Experiment. New variable stars in the globular cluster M 22 p. 899
J. Kaluzny and I. B. Thompson
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VLT observations of turnoff stars in the globular cluster NGC 6397 p. 905
F. Thévenin, C. Charbonnel, J. A. de Freitas Pacheco, T. P. Idiart, G. Jasniewicz, P. de Laverny and B. Plez
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Formation, structure and evolution of stars

Nonradial adiabatic oscillations of stars - Mode classification of acoustic-gravity waves p. 916
I. P. Lopes
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The highly collimated bipolar outflow of OH 231.8+4.2 p. 932
J. Alcolea, V. Bujarrabal, C. Sánchez Contreras, R. Neri and J. Zweigle
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KW Persei -a near-contact system? p. 950
R. Gális, L. Hric and P. Niarchos
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HD 169981 -an overlooked photometric binary? p. 960
H. Lehmann, G. Hildebrandt, K. P. Panov and G. Scholz
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The T Tauri star RX J1608.6-3922 -not an eclipsing binary but a spotted single star p. 966
V. Joergens, E. Guenther, R. Neuhäuser, M. Fernández and J. Vijapurkar
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Stellar atmospheres

Doppler imaging of stellar surface structure - XV. A possible detection of differential rotation and local meridional flows on the rapidly-rotating giant HD 218153 = KU Pegasi p. 974
M. Weber and K. G. Strassmeier
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Non-LTE gallium abundance in HgMn stars p. 987
M. Zboril and K. A. Berrington
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A method to estimate the effect of line blanketing in NLTE radiative transfer calculations p. 993
I. Busá, V. Andretta, M. T. Gomez and L. Terranegra
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Statistical equilibrium and photospheric abundance of silicon in the Sun and in Vega p. 998
S. Wedemeyer
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Modelling X-ray variability in the structured atmospheres of hot stars p. 1009
L. M. Oskinova, R. Ignace, J. C. Brown and J. P. Cassinelli
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Formation and evolution of planetary systems

The metal-rich nature of stars with planets p. 1019
N. C. Santos, G. Israelian and M. Mayor
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Diffuse matter in space

An analysis of the observed radio emission from planetary nebulae p. 1032
N. Siódmiak and R. Tylenda
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Self-similar evolution of wind-blown bubbles with mass loading by hydrodynamic ablation p. 1043
J. M. Pittard, T. W. Hartquist and J. E. Dyson
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The sun

Analysis of blinkers and EUV brightenings in the quiet Sun observed with CDS p. 1056
A. Brkovic, S. K. Solanki and I. Rüedi
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Coronal electron acceleration and relativistic proton production during the 14 July 2000 flare and CME p. 1073
K.-L. Klein, G. Trottet, P. Lantos and J.-P. Delaboudinière
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Group of type III bursts and its associated spikes p. 1083
S. J. Wang, Y. H. Yan and Q. J. Fu
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Numerical simulations of kink instability in line-tied coronal Loops p. 1089
C. L. Gerrard, T. D. Arber, A. W. Hood and R. A. M. Van der Linden
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Celestial mechanics and astrometry

Systematic relations between the HIPPARCOS catalogue and major (fundamental) catalogues of the 20th century (Paper I) p. 1099
H. Schwan
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Physical and chemical processes

Impacts of a power-law non-thermal electron tail on the ionization and recombination rates p. 1110
D. Porquet, M. Arnaud and A. Decourchelle
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Infrared optical properties of spinels - A study of the carrier of the 13, 17 and 32 $\mu$ m emission features observed in ISO-SWS spectra of oxygen-rich AGB stars p. 1125
D. Fabian, Th. Posch, H. Mutschke, F. Kerschbaum and J. Dorschner
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