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	Astronomy and Astrophysics
	Vol. 399 No. 2 (February IV 2003)
Cover illustration: Large scale gas and dust coma of Comet 21 P/Giacobini-Zinner (Lara, L.-M., et al., p. 766)

Astrophysical processes
• Stability of the viscously spreading ring     p. 395
  R. Speith and W. Kley
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• On the escape of cosmic rays from radio galaxy cocoons     p. 409
  T. A. Enßlin
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• Swirling astrophysical flows - efficient amplifiers of Alfvén waves!?     p. 421
  A. D. Rogava, S. M. Mahajan, G. Bodo and S. Massaglia
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Cosmology (including clusters of galaxies)
• Non-confirmation of reported clouds without optical counterparts in the Hercules cluster     p. 433
  W. van Driel, K. O'Neil, V. Cayatte, P.-A. Duc, J. M. Dickey, C. Balkowski, H. Hernández, J. Iglesias-Páramo, P. Papaderos, J. M. Vílchez and T. X. Thuan
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• H₀ measurement from VLT deep I-band surface brightness fluctuations in NGC 564 and NGC 7619     p. 441
  S. Mei, M. Scodeggio, D. R. Silva and P. J. Quinn
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Extragalactic astronomy
• Radio asymmetry in 3C 99     p. 449
  F. Mantovani, R. Fanti, C. Ferrari, W. Cotton and T. W. B. Muxlow
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• A catalog of warps in spiral and lenticular galaxies in the Southern hemisphere     p. 457
  M. L. Sánchez-Saavedra, E. Battaner, A. Guijarro, M. López-Corredoira and N. Castro-Rodríguez
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• The Parkes quarter-Jansky flat-spectrum sample - 2. New optical spectra and redshift measurements     p. 469
  I. M. Hook, P. A. Shaver, C. A. Jackson, J. V. Wall and K. I. Kellermann
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• Globular cluster candidates within the Fornax Cluster: Intracluster globulars?     p. 489
  L. P. Bassino, S. A. Cellone, J. C. Forte and B. Dirsch
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• High resolution soft X-ray spectroscopy of the elliptical galaxy NGC 5044 - Results from the reflection grating spectrometer on-board XMM-Newton     p. 497
  T. Tamura, J. S. Kaastra, K. Makishima and I. Takahashi
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• Observing scattered X-ray radiation from gamma-ray bursts: A way to measure their collimation angles     p. 505
  S. Yu. Sazonov and R. A. Sunyaev
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• B2 0648+27: A radio galaxy in a major merger     p. 511
  R. Morganti, T. A. Oosterloo, A. Capetti, H. R. de Ruiter, R. Fanti, P. Parma, C. N. Tadhunter and K. A. Wills
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• Chandra and XMM-Newton observations of Tololo 0109-383     p. 519
  G. Matt, S. Bianchi, M. Guainazzi, W. N. Brandt, A. C. Fabian, K. Iwasawa and G. C. Perola
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Galactic structure, stellar clusters and populations
• Non-LTE abundances of magnesium, aluminum and sulfur in OB stars near the solar circle     p. 525
  S. Daflon, K. Cunha, V. V. Smith and K. Butler
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• Vertical distribution of Galactic disk stars - II. The surface mass density in the Galactic plane     p. 531
  A. Siebert, O. Bienaymé and C. Soubiran
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• Multicolour photometry and Coravel observations of stars in the southern open cluster IC 2488     p. 543
  J. J. Clariá, A. E. Piatti, E. Lapasset and J.-C. Mermilliod
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Interstellar and circumstellar matter
• Turbulent diffusion and mixing in interstellar dark clouds with adsorption onto grains     p. 553
  C. J. Yate and T. J. Millar
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• Sulphur-bearing species as chemical clocks for low mass protostars?     p. 567
  J. V. Buckle and G. A. Fuller
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• Complex bifurcations in interstellar chemistry?     p. 583
  S. B. Charnley and A. J. Markwick
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Stellar structure and evolution
• Dynamic model atmospheres of AGB stars - III. Effects of frequency-dependent radiative transfer     p. 589
  S. Höfner, R. Gautschy-Loidl, B. Aringer and U. G. Jørgensen
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• Rotational mixing in low-mass stars - I Effect of the -gradients in main sequence and subgiant Pop I stars     p. 603
  A. Palacios, S. Talon, C. Charbonnel and M. Forestini
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• Zero-metallicity stars - II. Evolution of very massive objects with mass loss     p. 617
  P. Marigo, C. Chiosi and R.-P. Kudritzki
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• XMM-Newton observations of two black hole X-ray transients in quiescence     p. 631
  J.-M. Hameury, D. Barret, J.-P. Lasota, J. E. McClintock, K. Menou, C. Motch, J.-F. Olive and N. Webb
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• Spectroscopic mode identification for the Cephei star EN (16) Lacertae     p. 639
  C. Aerts, H. Lehmann, M. Briquet, R. Scuflaire, M. A. Dupret, J. De Ridder and A. Thoul
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• The unified phenomenological model of light curves of stellar flares     p. 647
  H. M. Tovmassian, V. P. Zalinian, N. A. Silant'ev, O. Cardona and M. Chavez
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• On the precession of the isolated pulsar PSR B1828-11 - A time-varying magnetic field     p. 653
  V. Rezania
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• Radiation pattern of the isolated pulsar PSR B1828-11     p. 659
  V. Rezania
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• Photospheric radius expansion X-ray bursts as standard candles     p. 663
  E. Kuulkers, P. R. den Hartog, J. J. M. in 't Zand, F. W. M. Verbunt, W. E. Harris and M. Cocchi
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• First far-UV observations of KQ Puppis with FUSE     p. 681
  R. González-Riestra, C. Rossi and R. F. Viotti
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• Microscopic study of neutrino trapping in hyperon stars     p. 687
  I. Vidaña, I. Bombaci, A. Polls and A. Ramos
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• CK Vul as a candidate eruptive stellar merging event     p. 695
  T. Kato
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• A possible 38 day X-ray period of KS 1731-260     p. 699
  M. Revnivtsev and R. Sunyaev
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Stellar atmospheres
• High precision Monte Carlo radiative transfer in dusty media     p. 703
  G. Niccolini, P. Woitke and B. Lopez
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• Wavelet analysis of stellar differential rotation - III. The Sun in white light     p. 717
  A. Hempelmann
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• Towards an explanation of features in the diagnostic diagram of a model atmosphere - I. Linear wave equations with convenient invariants     p. 723
  F. Schmitz and B. Fleck
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The Sun
• Temporal variations of low-order spherical harmonic representations of sunspot group patterns: Evidence for solar spin-orbit coupling     p. 731
  D. Juckett
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• Differential rotation and meridional flow in the solar supergranulation layer: Measuring the eddy viscosity     p. 743
  G. Rüdiger, M. Küker and K. L. Chan
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• Evidence for a Flux Rope driven EUV wave and CME: Comparison with the Piston Shock Model     p. 749
  C. R. Foley, L. K. Harra, S. A. Matthews, J. L. Culhane and R. Kitai
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• On the nature of moving magnetic feature pairs around sunspots     p. 755
  Jun Zhang, S. K. Solanki and Jingxiu Wang
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Planets and planetary systems
• Behaviour of Comet 21P/Giacobini-Zinner during the 1998 perihelion     p. 763
  L.-M. Lara, J. Licandro, A. Oscoz and V. Motta
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• Structure of the DM Tau Outer Disk: Probing the vertical kinetic temperature gradient     p. 773
  E. Dartois, A. Dutrey and S. Guilloteau
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• The dust tail of Comet C/1999 T1 McNaught-Hartley     p. 789
  F. Moreno, L. M. Lara, J. J. López-Moreno, O. Muñoz, A. Molina and J. Licandro
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Atomic, molecular and nuclear data
• The electron-impact broadening parameters for Co III spectral lines     p. 795
  D. Tankosic, L. C. Popovic and M. S. Dimitrijevic
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• Effective collision strengths for transitions in Fe XI     p. 799
  K. M. Aggarwal and F. P. Keenan
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