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A&A Vol. 397 No. 3

	Astronomy and Astrophysics
	Vol. 397 No. 3 (January III 2003)
Cover illustration: Total coronagraphic nulling with prolate apodizers (Soummer, R., et al., p. 1167)

Letters

First radius measurements of very low mass stars with the VLTI p. L5
D. Ségransan, P. Kervella, T. Forveille and D. Queloz
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Faint dwarf spheroidals in the Fornax Cluster - A flat luminosity function p. L9
M. Hilker, S. Mieske and L. Infante
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EVN observation of three Broad Absorption Line quasars p. L13
D. R. Jiang and T. G. Wang
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The H I emission profile of RS Cnc p. L17
E. Gérard and T. Le Bertre
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Astrophysical processes

Cosmic ray transport in anisotropic magnetohydrodynamic turbulence - II. Shear Alfvèn waves p. 777
A. Teufel, I. Lerche and R. Schlickeiser
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Axi-symmetric models of ultraviolet radiative transfer with applications to circumstellar disk chemistry p. 789
G.-J. van Zadelhoff, Y. Aikawa, M. R. Hogerheijde and E. F. van Dishoeck
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Cosmology (including clusters of galaxies)

A five dimensional model of varying effective gravitational and fine structure constants p. 803
J. P. Mbelek and M. Lachièze-Rey
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The three-point correlation function of cosmic shear - I. The natural components p. 809
P. Schneider and M. Lombardi
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Correcting for lensing bias in the Hubble diagram p. 819
R. Amanullah, E. Mörtsell and A. Goobar
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Images for an isothermal ellipsoidal gravitational lens from a single real algebraic equation p. 825
H. Asada, T. Hamana and M. Kasai
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Extragalactic astronomy

Age and metallicity of a globular cluster in the dwarf spheroidal galaxy DDO 78 p. 831
M. E. Sharina, O. K. Sil'chenko and A. N. Burenkov
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Physical properties of two low-luminosity $\mathsf{{\vec z} \sim 1.9}$ galaxies behind the lensing cluster AC 114 p. 839
M. Lemoine-Busserolle, T. Contini, R. Pelló, J.-F. Le Borgne, J.-P. Kneib and C. Lidman
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Extremely metal-poor Lyman limit system at $\mathsf{{\vec z}_{abs} = 2.917}$ toward the quasar HE 0940-1050 p. 851
S. A. Levshakov, I. I. Agafonova, M. Centurión and P. Molaro
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A large Wolf-Rayet population in NGC 300 uncovered by VLT-FORS2 p. 859
H. Schild, P. A. Crowther, J. B. Abbott and W. Schmutz
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[C II] emission and star formation in late-type galaxies - II. A model p. 871
D. Pierini, K. J. Leech and H. J. Völk
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XMM-Newton observations of the Seyfert 1 galaxy NGC 3227 p. 883
P. Gondoin, A. Orr, D. Lumb and H. Siddiqui
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Caught in the act: A helium-reionizing quasar near the line of sight to Q0302-003 p. 891
P. Jakobsen, R. A. Jansen, S. Wagner and D. Reimers
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Galactic structure, stellar clusters and populations

The mass of the Milky Way: Limits from a newly assembled set of halo objects p. 899
T. Sakamoto, M. Chiba and T. C. Beers
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Interstellar and circumstellar matter

Interaction of high-velocity pulsars with supernova remnant shells p. 913
E. van der Swaluw, A. Achterberg, Y. A. Gallant, T. P. Downes and R. Keppens
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Stellar structure and evolution

The effect of the apsidal motion on the light curve of the close binary HD 93205 (O3V+O8V) p. 921
A. M. van Genderen
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Spectroscopic observations of H $\alpha$ emission-line stars from Sanduleak & Stephenson's 1973 (SS73) list p. 927
C. B. Pereira, C. S. Franco and F. X. de Araújo
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Mira Variables explained by a planetary companion interaction: A means to drop the pulsation paradigm? p. 943
P. Berlioz-Arthaud
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Modelling the recurrent nova CI Aql in quiescence p. 951
C. Lederle and S. Kimeswenger
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A model of the dwarf nova WX Cet p. 961
P. Rogoziecki and A. Schwarzenberg-Czerny
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Radio emission altitude in pulsars p. 969
J. Kijak and J. Gil
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Nonadiabatic resonant dynamic tides and orbital evolution in close binaries p. 973
B. Willems, T. van Hoolst and P. Smeyers
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Fast-rotating nearby solar-type stars - II. Li abundances, v sin i and X-ray luminosities relationships p. 987
G. Cutispoto, G. Tagliaferri, J. R. de Medeiros, L. Pastori, L. Pasquini and J. Andersen
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Hipparcos red stars in the $HpV_{\rm T2}$ and $V\!I_{\rm C}$ systems p. 997
I. Platais, D. Pourbaix, A. Jorissen, V. V. Makarov, L. N. Berdnikov, N .N. Samus, T. Lloyd Evans, T. Lebzelter and J. Sperauskas
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The nature of the prompt X-ray and radio emission from SN 2002ap p. 1011
F. K. Sutaria, P. Chandra, S. Bhatnagar and A. Ray
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Stellar atmospheres

Dynamics of flares on late type dMe stars - IV. Constraints from spectrophotometry in the visible p. 1019
E. R. Houdebine
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An atlas of spectra of B6-A2 hypergiants and supergiants from 4800 to 6700 Å p. 1035
E. L. Chentsov, S. V. Ermakov, V. G. Klochkova, V. E. Panchuk, K. S. Bjorkman and A. S. Miroshnichenko
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A new look at the pulsating DB white dwarf GD 358: Line-of-sight velocity measurements and constraints on model atmospheres p. 1043
R. Kotak, M. H. van Kerkwijk, J. C. Clemens and D. Koester
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The Sun

Correlation between halo coronal mass ejections and solar surface activity p. 1057
Guiping Zhou, Jingxiu Wang and Zhuoliang Cao
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Influence of turbulent magnetic fields on mode frequencies p. 1069
S. L. Bi, Y. Liao and J. X. Wang
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Centre-to-limb variation of solar granulation in the infrared p. 1075
M. Sánchez Cuberes, M. Vázquez, J. A. Bonet and M. Sobotka
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Dynamics of solar coronal loops p. 1083
L. Di G. Sigalotti and C. A. Mendoza-Briceño
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Thermal properties of magnetic flux tubes - II. Storage of flux in the solar overshoot region p. 1097
M. Rempel
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Planets and planetary systems

Long-term optical spectrophotometric monitoring of comet C/1995 O1 (Hale-Bopp) p. 1109
H. Rauer, J. Helbert, C. Arpigny, J. Benkhoff, D. Bockelée-Morvan, H. Boehnhardt, F. Colas, J. Crovisier, O. Hainaut, L. Jorda, M. Kueppers, J. Manfroid and N. Thomas
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Lunar occultations of stars with exoplanet candidates p. 1123
A. Richichi
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Line emission from circumstellar disks around A stars p. 1129
I. Kamp, G.-J. van Zadelhoff, E. F. van Dishoeck and R. Stark
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Atomic, molecular and nuclear data

The FERRUM Project: Experimental transition probabilities of [Fe II] and astrophysical applications p. 1143
H. Hartman, A. Derkatch, M. P. Donnelly, T. Gull, A. Hibbert, S. Johansson, H. Lundberg, S. Mannervik, L.-O. Norlin, D. Rostohar, P. Royen and P. Schef
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Instruments, observational techniques, and data processing

Precise radial velocity measurements of G and K giants - First results p. 1151
J. Setiawan, L. Pasquini, L. da Silva, O. von der Lühe and A. Hatzes
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Stellar coronagraphy with prolate apodized circular apertures p. 1161
R. Soummer, C. Aime and P. E. Falloon
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