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A&A Vol. 403 No. 3

	Astronomy and Astrophysics
	Vol. 403 No. 3 (June I 2003)
Cover illustration: OH absorption towards Sgr A in the Galactic Centre (Karlsson, R., et al., p. 1015)

Letters

Abundant H $\mathsf}$ D $\mathsf}$ in the pre-stellar core L1544 p. L37
P. Caselli, F. F. S. van der Tak, C. Ceccarelli and A. Bacmann
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Widespread acetaldehyde near the Galactic Centre p. L43
J. N. Chengalur and N. Kanekar
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Field-aligned Evershed flows in the photosphere of a sunspot penumbra p. L47
L. R. Bellot Rubio, H. Balthasar, M. Collados and R. Schlichenmaier
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Detection of 1612 MHz OH emission in the semiregular variable stars RT Vir, R Crt and W Hya p. L51
S. Etoka, A. M. Le Squeren and E. Gerard
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Astrophysical processes

Influence of chemi-ionization and chemi-recombination processes on the population of hydrogen Rydberg states in atmospheres of late type dwarfs p. 787
A. A. Mihajlov, D. Jevremovic, P. Hauschildt, M. S. Dimitrijevic, Lj. M. Ignjatovic and F. Alard
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Relativistic parsec-scale jets: I. Particle acceleration p. 793
A. R. Beresnyak, Ya. N. Istomin and V. I. Pariev
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Relativistic parsec-scale jets: II. Synchrotron emission p. 805
V. I. Pariev, Ya. N. Istomin and A. R. Beresnyak
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Improving the accuracy of cosmic magnification statistics p. 817
B. Ménard, T. Hamana, M. Bartelmann and N. Yoshida
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Extragalactic astronomy

A mid-infrared spectroscopic survey of starburst galaxies: Excitation and abundances p. 829
A. Verma, D. Lutz, E. Sturm, A. Sternberg, R. Genzel and W. Vacca
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Substructures and galaxy orientations in clusters II. Cluster Abell 14 p. 847
F. W. Baier, W. Godlowski and H. T. MacGillivray
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The VLA-VIRMOS Deep Field - I. Radio observations probing the $\mu$ Jy source population p. 857
M. Bondi, P. Ciliegi, G. Zamorani, L. Gregorini, G. Vettolani, P. Parma, H. de Ruiter, O. Le Fevre, M. Arnaboldi, L. Guzzo, D. Maccagni, R. Scaramella, C. Adami, S. Bardelli, M. Bolzonella, D. Bottini, A. Cappi, S. Foucaud, P. Franzetti, B. Garilli, S. Gwyn, O. Ilbert, A. Iovino, V. Le Brun, B. Marano, C. Marinoni, H. J. McCracken, B. Meneux, A. Pollo, L. Pozzetti, M. Radovich, V. Ripepi, D. Rizzo, M. Scodeggio, L. Tresse, A. Zanichelli and E. Zucca
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On the XMM-Newton spectra of soft X-ray selected QSOs p. 869
A. Akylas, I. Georgantopoulos and X. Barcons
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Spectroscopic study of blue compact galaxies - III. Empirical population synthesis p. 877
X. Kong, S. Charlot, A. Weiss and F. Z. Cheng
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A multi-wavelength test of the FR I-BL Lac unifying model p. 889
E. Trussoni, A. Capetti, A. Celotti, M. Chiaberge and L. Feretti
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XMM-Newton observations of High Mass X-ray Binaries in the SMC p. 901
M. Sasaki, W. Pietsch and F. Haberl
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Galactic structure, stellar clusters and populations

Constraints on distances to Galactic Centre non-thermal filaments from HI absorption p. 917
Subhashis Roy
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Serendipitous discovery of seven new southern L-dwarfs p. 929
T. R. Kendall, N. Mauron, M. Azzopardi and K. Gigoyan
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Strömgren uvby photometry of the open clusters NGC 6192 and NGC 6451 p. 937
E. Paunzen, H. M. Maitzen, K. D. Rakos and J. Schombert
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Galactic mass-losing AGB stars probed with the IRTS. II p. 943
T. Le Bertre, M. Tanaka, I. Yamamura and H. Murakami
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Explanatory supplement of the ISOGAL-DENIS Point Source Catalogue p. 955
F. Schuller, S. Ganesh, M. Messineo, A. Moneti, J. A. D. L. Blommaert, C. Alard, B. Aracil, M.-A. Miville-Deschênes, A. Omont, M. Schultheis, G. Simon, A. Soive and L. Testi
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ISOGAL: A deep survey of the obscured inner Milky Way with ISO at 7 $\mu$ m and 15 $\mu$ m and with DENIS in the near-infrared p. 975
A. Omont, G. F. Gilmore, C. Alard, B. Aracil, T. August, K. Baliyan, S. Beaulieu, S. Bégon, X. Bertou, J. A. D. L. Blommaert, J. Borsenberger, M. Burgdorf, B. Caillaud, C. Cesarsky, A. Chitre, E. Copet, B. de Batz, M. P. Egan, D. Egret, N. Epchtein, M. Felli, P. Fouqué, S. Ganesh, R. Genzel, I. S. Glass, R. Gredel, M. A. T. Groenewegen, F. Guglielmo, H. J. Habing, P. Hennebelle, B. Jiang, U. C. Joshi, S. Kimeswenger, M. Messineo, M. A. Miville-Deschênes, A. Moneti, M. Morris, D. K. Ojha, R. Ortiz, S. Ott, M. Parthasarathy, M. Pérault, S. D. Price, A. C. Robin, M. Schultheis, F. Schuller, G. Simon, A. Soive, L. Testi, D. Teyssier, D. Tiphène, M. Unavane, J. T. van Loon and R. Wyse
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Reprocessing the Hipparcos data of evolved stars - III. Revised Hipparcos period-luminosity relationship for galactic long-period variable stars p. 993
G. R. Knapp, D. Pourbaix, I. Platais and A. Jorissen
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Interstellar and circumstellar matter

Abundant gas-phase H $\mathsf}$ O in absorption toward massive protostars p. 1003
A. M. S. Boonman and E. F. van Dishoeck
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18-cm VLA observations of OH towards the Galactic Centre - Absorption and emission in the four ground-state OH lines p. 1011
R. Karlsson, L. O. Sjouwerman, Aa. Sandqvist and J. B. Whiteoak
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Estimation of the mass loss, opening angle and mass of Be circumstellar disks from Br $\mathsf{\gamma}$ continuum emission and interferometric measurements p. 1023
Ph. Stee
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Multi-frequency polarimetry of the Galactic radio background around 350 MHz - I. A region in Auriga around l = 161°, b = 16° p. 1031
M. Haverkorn, P. Katgert and A. G. de Bruyn
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Characteristics of the structure in the Galactic polarized radio background at 350 MHz p. 1045
M. Haverkorn, P. Katgert and A. G. de Bruyn
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Stellar structure and evolution

Long-term flux density variations of pulsars: Theoretical structure functions and comparisons with observations p. 1059
A. Z. Zhou, X. J. Wu and A. Esamdin
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Temperature and cooling age of the white dwarf companion of PSR J0218+4232 p. 1067
C. G. Bassa, M. H. van Kerkwijk and S. R. Kulkarni
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The low-level radial velocity variability in Barnard's star (= GJ 699) - Secular acceleration, indications for convective redshift, and planet mass limits p. 1077
M. Kürster, M. Endl, F. Rouesnel, S. Els, A. Kaufer, S. Brillant, A. P. Hatzes, S. H. Saar and W. D. Cochran
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The 2003 eclipse of EE Cep is coming - A review of past eclipses p. 1089
D. Graczyk, M. Mikolajewski, T. Tomov, D. Kolev and I. Iliev
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The protostellar mass limit for 6.7 GHz methanol masers - I. A low-mass YSO survey p. 1095
V. Minier, S. P. Ellingsen, R. P. Norris and R. S. Booth
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Stellar atmospheres

White-light oscillations during a flare on II Peg p. 1101
M. Mathioudakis, J. H. Seiradakis, D. R. Williams, S. Avgoloupis, D. S. Bloomfield and R. T. J. McAteer
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First Stars. III. A detailed elemental abundance study of four extremely metal-poor giant stars p. 1105
P. François, E. Depagne, V. Hill, M. Spite, F. Spite, B. Plez, T. C. Beers, B. Barbuy, R. Cayrel, J. Andersen, P. Bonifacio, P. Molaro, B. Nordström and F. Primas
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The Sun

On stability of rotation of the mean magnetic field of the Sun p. 1115
V. I. Haneychuk, V. A. Kotov and T. T. Tsap
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Chromospheric Evershed flow p. 1123
A. A. Georgakilas, E. B. Christopoulou, A. Skodras and S. Koutchmy
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Modelling the rotational modulation of the Sun as a star p. 1135
A. F. Lanza, M. Rodonò, I. Pagano, P. Barge and A. Llebaria
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Interpretation of the infrared continuum in a solar white-light flare p. 1151
M. D. Ding, Y. Liu, C.-T. Yeh and J. P. Li
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Stereoscopic observations of the giant hard X-ray/gamma-ray solar flare on 1991 June 30 at 0255 UT p. 1157
G. Trottet, R. A. Schwartz, K. Hurley, J. M. McTiernan, S. R. Kane and N. Vilmer
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Planets and planetary systems

Proper element catalogs and asteroid families p. 1165
Z. Knezevic and A. Milani
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Atomic, molecular and nuclear data

A complete set of radiative and Auger rates for K-vacancy states in Fe XVIII-Fe XXV p. 1175
P. Palmeri, C. Mendoza, T. R. Kallman and M. A. Bautista
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