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A&A Vol. 390 No. 2

	Astronomy and Astrophysics
	Vol. 390 No. 2 (August I 2002)
Cover illustration: Stream lines of meridional circulation in a rotating 20 model (Meynet, G., & Maeder, A., p. 562)

Cosmology

The extreme ultraviolet excess emission in five clusters of galaxies revisited p. 397
F. Durret, E. Slezak, R. Lieu, S. Dos Santos and M. Bonamente
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Extragalactic astronomy

The WEBT BL Lacertae Campaign 2000 p. 407
M. Villata, C. M. Raiteri, O. M. Kurtanidze, M. G. Nikolashvili, M. A. Ibrahimov, I. E. Papadakis, K. Tsinganos, K. Sadakane, N. Okada, L. O. Takalo, A. Sillanpää, G. Tosti, S. Ciprini, A. Frasca, E. Marilli, R. M. Robb, J. C. Noble, S. G. Jorstad, V. A. Hagen-Thorn, V. M. Larionov, R. Nesci, M. Maesano, R. D. Schwartz, J. Basler, P. W. Gorham, H. Iwamatsu, T. Kato, C. Pullen, E. Benítez, J. A. de Diego, M. Moilanen, A. Oksanen, D. Rodriguez, A. C. Sadun, M. Kelly, M. T. Carini, H. R. Miller, S. Catalano, D. Dultzin-Hacyan, J. H. Fan, R. Ishioka, H. Karttunen, P. Keinänen, N. A. Kudryavtseva, M. Lainela, L. Lanteri, E. G. Larionova, K. Matsumoto, J. R. Mattox, F. Montagni, G. Nucciarelli, L. Ostorero, J. Papamastorakis, M. Pasanen, G. Sobrito and M. Uemura
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Relation between dust and radio luminosity in optically selected early type galaxies p. 423
D. Krajnovic and W. Jaffe
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Optical microvariability of EGRET blazars p. 431
G. E. Romero, S. A. Cellone, J. A. Combi and I. Andruchow
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A QSO survey via optical variability and zero proper motion in the M 92 field - III. Narrow emission line galaxies p. 439
H. Meusinger and J. Brunzendorf
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The local stellar population of nova regions in the Large Magellanic Cloud p. 449
A. Subramaniam and G. C. Anupama
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Balmer lines emission region in NGC 3516: Kinematical and physical properties p. 473
L. C. Popovic, E. G. Mediavilla, A. Kubicela and P. Jovanovic
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Near-infrared properties of Blue Compact Dwarf Galaxies: The link between solar and low metallicity p. 481
L. Vanzi, L. K. Hunt and T. X. Thuan
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Galactic structure and dynamics

New nearby stars selected in a high proper motion survey by DENIS photometry p. 491
C. Reylé, A. C. Robin, R.-D. Scholz and M. Irwin
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Millimetre observations of infrared carbon stars - I. The data p. 501
M. A. T. Groenewegen, M. Sevenster, H. W. W. Spoon and I. Pérez
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Millimetre observations of infrared carbon stars - II. Mass loss rates and expansion velocities p. 511
M. A. T. Groenewegen, M. Sevenster, H. W. W. Spoon and I. Pérez
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Formation, structure and evolution of stars

A study of correlation between the oscillation amplitude and stellar parameters of $\delta$ Scuti stars in open clusters - Toward selection rules for $\delta$ Scuti star oscillations p. 523
J.-C. Suárez, E. Michel, F. Pérez Hernández, Y. Lebreton, Z. P. Li and L. Fox Machado
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The carrier of the "30" $\mu$ m emission feature in evolved stars - A simple model using magnesium sulfide p. 533
S. Hony, L. B. F. M. Waters and A. G. G. M. Tielens
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Research Note:

Period behavior of the W Ursae Majoris contact binary AH Tauri p. 555
Yulan Yang and Qingyao Liu
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Stellar evolution with rotation - VIII. Models at Z = 10 $^\mathsf$ and CNO yields for early galactic evolution p. 561
G. Meynet and A. Maeder
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Period-doubling events in the light curve of R Cygni: Evidence for chaotic behaviour p. 585
L. L. Kiss and K. Szatmáry
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The nature of the X-ray transient SAX J1711.6-3808 p. 597
J. J. M. in 't Zand, C. B. Markwardt, A. Bazzano, M. Cocchi, R. Cornelisse, J. Heise, E. Kuulkers, L. Natalucci, M. Santos-Lleo, J. Swank and P. Ubertini
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Atomic diffusion in star models of type earlier than G p. 611
P. Morel and F. Thévenin
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Models of infrared spectra of Sakurai's Object (V4334 Sgr) in 1997 p. 621
Y. V. Pavlenko and T. R. Geballe
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Properties of galactic B[e] supergiants. I. CI Camelopardalis p. 627
A. S. Miroshnichenko, V. G. Klochkova, K. S. Bjorkman and V. E. Panchuk
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Stellar atmospheres

Zeeman tomography of magnetic white dwarfs - I. Reconstruction of the field geometry from synthetic spectra p. 633
F. Euchner, S. Jordan, K. Beuermann, B. T. Gänsicke and F. V. Hessman
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Diffuse matter in space

The physical structure of Magellanic Cloud $\ion{H}{ii}$ regions - I. Dataset p. 649
R. Vermeij, F. Damour, J. M. van der Hulst and J-.P. Baluteau
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Deconstructing IRAS 07027-7934 p. 667
R. Surendiranath
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The sun

Parity properties of an advection-dominated solar $\mathsf{\alpha^2 \Omega}$ -dy na mo p. 673
A. Bonanno, D. Elstner, G. Rüdiger and G. Belvedere
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Small-scale topology of solar atmospheric dynamics - V. Acoustic events and internetwork grains p. 681
N. M. Hoekzema, T. R. Rimmele and R. J. Rutten
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Linear polarization of the $\ion{O}{vi}$ $\lambda$ 1031.92 coronal line - I. Constraints on the solar wind velocity field vector in the polar holes p. 691
N.-E. Raouafi, S. Sahal-Bréchot, P. Lemaire and V. Bommier
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Hemispheric Sunspot Numbers $\mathsf}$ and $\mathsf}$ : Catalogue and N-S asymmetry analysis p. 707
M. Temmer, A. Veronig and A. Hanslmeier
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IRIS ⁺⁺ database: Merging of IRIS + Mark-1 + LOWL p. 717
D. Salabert, E. Fossat, B. Gelly, S. Tomczyk, P. Pallé, S. J. Jiménez-Reyes, A. Cacciani, T. Corbard, S. Ehgamberdiev, G. Grec, J. T. Hoeksema, S. Kholikov, M. Lazrek and F. X. Schmider
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Nonlinear interaction of kinetic Alfvén waves and radio waves in the solar corona p. 725
O. Sirenko, Yu. Voitenko and M. Goossens
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Celestial mechanics and astrometry

Solar system models with a selected set of frequencies p. 733
G. Gómez, J. J. Masdemont and J. M. Mondelo
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Physical and chemical processes

Cosmic rays from microquasars: A narrow component to the CR spectrum? p. 751
S. Heinz and R. Sunyaev
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Collapsing magnetic instability to solar intermittent flux and anomalous viscosity in accretion disks p. 767
X. Q. Li and H. Zhang
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Atomic and molecular data

Collision-induced absorption coefficients of H $\mathsf$ pairs at temperatures from 60 K to 1000 K p. 779
A. Borysow
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Physical and chemical processes

Depolarization rates of resonance lines of Mg, Ca, Sr and Na atoms by collisions with neutral hydrogen p. 783
B. Kerkeni
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Atomic and molecular data

Collisional excitation rates of H $\mathsf$ O with H $\mathsf$ - I. Pure rotational excitation rates with para-H $\mathsf$ at very low temperature p. 793
M.-L. Dubernet and A. Grosjean
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Instruments, observational techniques and data processing

Optimum imaging observation wavelength selection for astronomical telescopes with partial correction adaptive optics p. 801
Changhui Rao and Wenhan Jiang
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