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A&A Vol. 382 No. 2

	Astronomy and Astrophysics
	Vol. 382 No. 2 (February I 2002)
Cover illustration: ISOPHOT observations of cold dust in the cloud L 183 (Juvela, M., et al., p. 588)

Cosmology

Search for streaming motion of galaxy clusters around the Giant Void p. 389
A. I. Kopylov and F. G. Kopylova
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The cosmological constant and quintessence from a correlation function comoving fine feature in the 2dF quasar redshift survey p. 397
B. F. Roukema, G. A. Mamon and S. Bajtlik
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Dynamics of gravitational clustering - II. Steepest-descent method for the quasi-linear regime p. 412
P. Valageas
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Dynamics of gravitational clustering - III. The quasi-linear regime for some non-Gaussian initial conditions p. 431
P. Valageas
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Dynamics of gravitational clustering - IV. The probability distribution of rare events p. 450
P. Valageas
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Dynamics of gravitational clustering - V. Subleading corrections in the quasi-linear regime p. 477
P. Valageas
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Extragalactic astronomy

The orthogonal gaseous kinematical decoupling in the Sa spiral NGC 2855 $^{\bf ,}$ p. 488
E. M. Corsini, A. Pizzella and F. Bertola
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Dim galaxies and outer halos of galaxies missed by 2MASS? The near-infrared luminosity function and density p. 495
S. Andreon
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A half-a-day long thermonuclear X-ray burst from KS 1731-260 p. 503
E. Kuulkers, J. J. M. in 't Zand, M. H. van Kerkwijk, R. Cornelisse, D. A. Smith, J. Heise, A. Bazzano, M. Cocchi, L. Natalucci and P. Ubertini
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Statistics of galaxy warps in the HDF North and South p. 513
V. Reshetnikov, E. Battaner, F. Combes and J. Jiménez-Vicente
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The XMM-Newton serendipitous survey - II. First results from the AXIS high galactic latitude medium sensitivity survey p. 522
X. Barcons, F. J. Carrera, M. G. Watson, R. G. McMahon, B. Aschenbach, M. J. Freyberg, K. Page, M. J. Page, T. P. Roberts, M. J. L. Turner, D. Barret, H. Brunner, M. T. Ceballos, R. Della Ceca, P. Guillout, G. Hasinger, T. Maccacaro, S. Mateos, C. Motch, I. Negueruela, J. P. Osborne, I. Pérez-Fournon, A. Schwope, P. Severgnini, G. P. Szokoly, N. A. Webb, P. J. Wheatley and D. M. Worrall
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Stellar clusters and associations

Infrared observations of NGC 3603 - I. New constraints on cluster radius and $\mathsf{{\vec K}_{s}}$ -band luminosity function p. 537
D. E. A. Nürnberger and M. G. Petr-Gotzens
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Formation, structure and evolution of stars

Research Note
Support for a white dwarf in the Be star binary ${\gamma}$ Cassiopeiae p. 554
K. M. V. Apparao
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Pulsational frequencies in the $\delta$ Scuti stars V624 Tauri and HD 23194 - Results of the STEPHI X campaign on the Pleiades cluster p. 556
L. Fox-Machado, M. Álvarez, E. Michel, Z. P. Li, F. Pérez Hernández, M. Chevreton, C. Barban, J. A. Belmonte, N. Dolez, A. Fernandez, J. P. Guo, M. Haywood, Y. Y. Liu, S. Pau, H. Planas and B. Servan
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Evolutionary models for low-mass stars and brown dwarfs: Uncertainties and limits at very young ages p. 563
I. Baraffe, G. Chabrier, F. Allard and P. H. Hauschildt
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Diffuse matter in space

The molecular disk surrounding the protostellar binary L1551 IRS5 p. 573
C. V. M. Fridlund, P. Bergman, G. J. White, G. L. Pilbratt and J. A. Tauber
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Far-infrared and molecular line observations of Lynds 183 - Studies of cold gas and dust p. 583
M. Juvela, K. Mattila, K. Lehtinen, D. Lemke, R. Laureijs and T. Prusti
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Diffuse far-infrared [ $\ion{C}{ii}$ ] line emission from high Galactic latitude p. 600
S. Makiuti, H. Shibai, T. Nakagawa, H. Okuda, K. Okumura, H. Matsuhara, N. Hiromoto and Y. Doi
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Detection of highly-ionized diffuse gas in the Galactic plane p. 610
M. Mizutani, T. Onaka and H. Shibai
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Radio-millimetre investigation of galactic infrared dark clouds p. 624
D. Teyssier, P. Hennebelle and M. Pérault
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The sun

Physical consequences of the inclusion of anomalous resistivity in the dynamics of 2D magnetic reconnection p. 639
I. Roussev, K. Galsgaard and P. G. Judge
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What is the source of the magnetic helicity shed by CMEs? The long-term helicity budget of AR 7978 p. 650
P. Démoulin, C. H. Mandrini, L. van Driel-Gesztelyi, B. J. Thompson, S. Plunkett, Zs. Kovári, G. Aulanier and A. Young
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Trajectories of microwave prominence eruptions p. 666
K. Hori and J. L. Culhane
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An evaluation of the correlation between open solar flux and total solar irradiance p. 678
M. Lockwood
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Diagnostics of electron bombardment in solar flares from hydrogen Balmer lines p. 688
J. Kasparová and P. Heinzel
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Quiet Sun coronal heating: A statistical model p. 699
V. Krasnoselskikh, O. Podladchikova, B. Lefebvre and N. Vilmer
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Quiet Sun coronal heating: Analyzing large scale magnetic structures driven by different small-scale uniform sources p. 713
O. Podladchikova, T. Dudok de Wit, V. Krasnoselskikh and B. Lefebvre
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Physical and chemical processes

Radiative processes in the intracluster plasma p. 722
N. Itoh, T. Sakamoto, S. Kusano, Y. Kawana and S. Nozawa
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Nonthermal hard X-ray emission from the Galactic Ridge p. 730
V. A. Dogiel, V. Schönfelder and A. W. Strong
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Instruments, observational techniques and data processing

Co-phasing of segmented telescopes: A new approach to piston measurements - I. Optical concept p. 746
V. V. Voitsekhovich, S. Bara and V. G. Orlov
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An optimal extraction of spatially blended spectra p. 752
R. I. Hynes
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Computational methods

An efficient parallel tree-code for the simulation of self-gravitating systems p. 758
P. Miocchi and R. Capuzzo-Dolcetta
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