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	Astronomy and Astrophysics
	Vol. 392 No. 3 (September IV 2002)
Cover illustration: Bispectrum speckle interferometry of R Mon (Weigelt, G., et al., p. 939)

Cosmology
• Optical monitoring of the gravitationally lensed quasar Q2237+0305 from APO between June 1995 and January 1998     p. 773
  R. W. Schmidt, T. Kundic, U.-L. Pen, E. L. Turner, J. Wambsganss, L. E. Bergeron, W. N. Colley, C. Corson, N. C. Hastings, T. Hoyes, D. C. Long, K. A. Loomis, S. Malhotra, J. E. Rhoads and K. Z. Stanek
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• Detection of molecular hydrogen in a near Solar-metallicity damped Lyman- system at 2 toward Q 0551-366     p. 781
  C. Ledoux, R. Srianand and P. Petitjean
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Extragalactic astronomy
• A further study of the BATSE Gamma-Ray Burst duration distribution     p. 791
  I. Horváth
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• and : A multi-wavelength study of two dynamically perturbed clusters of galaxies     p. 795
  I. Valtchanov, T. Murphy, M. Pierre, R. Hunstead and L. Lémonon
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• Outer edges of face-on spiral galaxies - Deep optical imaging of NGC 5923, UGC 9837 and NGC 5434     p. 807
  M. Pohlen, R.-J. Dettmar, R. Lütticke and G. Aronica
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• XMM-Newton observations of ultraluminous X-ray sources in nearby galaxies     p. 817
  L. Foschini, G. Di Cocco, L. C. Ho, L. Bassani, M. Cappi, M. Dadina, F. Gianotti, G. Malaguti, F. Panessa, E. Piconcelli, J. B. Stephen and M. Trifoglio
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• Radiative transfer with finite elements - II. Ly line transfer in moving media     p. 827
  E. Meinköhn and S. Richling
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• A sample of southern Compact Steep Spectrum radio sources: The VLBI observations     p. 841
  A. Tzioumis, E. King, R. Morganti, D. Dallacasa, C. Tadhunter, C. Fanti, J. Reynolds, D. Jauncey, R. Preston, P. McCulloch, S. Tingay, P. Edwards, M. Costa, D. Jones, J. Lovell, R. Clay, D. Meier, D. Murphy, R. Gough, R. Ferris, G. White and P. Jones
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• QSOs from the variability and proper motion survey in the M 3 field     p. 851
  H. Meusinger, R.-D. Scholz, M. Irwin and H. Lehmann
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• Polarimetric observations of GRB 011211     p. 865
  S. Covino, D. Lazzati, D. Malesani, G. Ghisellini, G. L. Israel, L. Stella, A. Cimatti, S. di Serego, F. Fiore, N. Kawai, S. Ortolani, L. Pasquini, G. Ricker, P. Saracco, G. Tagliaferri and F. Zerbi
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Stellar clusters and associations
• Characteristics of new star cluster candidates in the Cygnus area     p. 869
  J.-M. Le Duigou and J. Knödlseder
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Formation, structure and evolution of stars
• BeppoSAX Wide Field Cameras observations of six type I X-ray bursters     p. 885
  R. Cornelisse, F. Verbunt, J. J. M. in 't Zand, E. Kuulkers, J. Heise, R. A. Remillard, M. Cocchi, L. Natalucci, A. Bazzano and P. Ubertini
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• Complex Period Variations in the Binary System IM Aurigae     p. 895
  T. Borkovits, Sz. Csizmadia, T. Hegedüs, I. B. Bíró, Zs. Sándor and A. Opitz
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• Physical parameters of the high-mass X-ray binary 4U1700-37     p. 909
  J. S. Clark, S. P. Goodwin, P. A. Crowther, L. Kaper, M. Fairbairn, N. Langer and C. Brocksopp
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• IRC+10 216 in action: Present episode of intense mass-loss reconstructed by two-dimensional radiative transfer modeling     p. 921
  A. B. Men'shchikov, K.-H. Hofmann and G. Weigelt
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• Chandra follow-up of bursters with low persistent emission     p. 931
  R. Cornelisse, F. Verbunt, J. J. M. in 't Zand, E. Kuulkers and J. Heise
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• Diffraction-limited bispectrum speckle interferometry of the Herbig Be star R Mon     p. 937
  G. Weigelt, Y. Y. Balega, K.-H. Hofmann and T. Preibisch
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• High-resolution study of the young stellar objects in Mon R2 IRS 3     p. 945
  T. Preibisch, Y. Y. Balega, D. Schertl and G. Weigelt
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• High-Resolution X-ray imaging and spectroscopy of N 103B     p. 955
  K. J. van der Heyden, E. Behar, J. Vink, A. P. Rasmussen, J. S. Kaastra, J. A. M. Bleeker, S. M. Kahn and R. Mewe
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• High-resolution spectroscopic monitoring of SV Camelopardalis - I. Orbits, absolute masses and radii of the components     p. 963
  H. Lehmann, A. Hempelmann and U. Wolter
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• Young massive stars in the ISOGAL survey - II. The catalogue of bright YSO candidates     p. 971
  M. Felli, L. Testi, F. Schuller and A. Omont
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• Spectroscopic observations of the candidate sgB[e]/X-ray binary CI Camelopardalis     p. 991
  R. I. Hynes, J. S. Clark, E. A. Barsukova, P. J. Callanan, P. A. Charles, A. Collier Cameron, S. N. Fabrika, M. R. Garcia, C. A. Haswell, Keith Horne, A. Miroshnichenko, I. Negueruela, P. Reig, W. F. Welsh and D. K. Witherick
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• Non-linear magnetic field decay in neutron stars - Theory and observations     p. 1015
  U. Geppert and M. Rheinhardt
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• High resolution mid-infrared imaging of W3(OH)     p. 1025
  B. Stecklum, B. Brandl, Th. Henning, I. Pascucci, T. L. Hayward and J. C. Wilson
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Stellar atmospheres
• On the effective temperatures and surface gravities of superficially normal main sequence band B and A stars     p. 1031
  Saul J. Adelman, O. I. Pintado, F. Nieva, K. E. Rayle and S. E. Sanders Jr.
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Formation and evolution of planetary systems
• The absence of the 10  m silicate feature in the isolated Herbig Ae star HD 100453     p. 1039
  G. Meeus, J. Bouwman, C. Dominik, L. B. F. M. Waters and A. de Koter
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Diffuse matter in space
Research Note:

• Towards the identification of circumstellar hibonite     p. 1047
  H. Mutschke, Th. Posch, D. Fabian and J. Dorschner
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• Constraints on star formation theories from the Serpens molecular cloud and protocluster     p. 1053
  L. Olmi and L. Testi
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• Distances of absorbing features in the LDN 1622 direction     p. 1069
  J. Knude, C. Fabricius, E. Høg and V. Makarov
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• Photodissociation of CO in turbulent molecular clouds     p. 1081
  M. Röllig, M. Hegmann and W. H. Kegel
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The sun
• Polarization changes in solar radio emission caused by scattering from high-frequency plasma turbulence     p. 1089
  V. G. Ledenev, V. V. Tirsky, V. M. Tomozov and P. Zlobec
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• Temporal and spatial variations of the magnetic field vector in sunspots     p. 1095
  A. Settele, M. Sigwarth and K. Muglach
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• On the brightness and velocity structure of solar granulation     p. 1105
  J. Hirzberger
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• 3D Coronal magnetic field from vector magnetograms: non-constant- force-free configuration of the active region NOAA 8151     p. 1119
  S. Régnier, T. Amari and E. Kersalé
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Instruments, observational techniques and data processing
• Automatic observation rendering (AMORE) - I. On a synthetic stellar population's colour-magnitude diagram     p. 1129
  Y. K. Ng, E. Brogt, C. Chiosi and G. Bertelli
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• Hexagonal arrays for radio interferometers     p. 1149
  L. G. Sodin and L. E. Kopilovich
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• Smooth maps from clumpy data: Covariance analysis     p. 1153
  M. Lombardi and P. Schneider
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