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	Astronomy and Astrophysics
	Vol. 412 No. 3 (December IV 2003)
Cover illustration: Broadening profile deconvolution in F-star spectra (Reiners, A., & Schmitt, J. H. M. M., p. 815)

Letters
• Spin orientation of supermassive black holes in active galaxies     p. L61
  W. Kollatschny
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• Evidence of mesogranulation from magnetograms of the Sun     p. L65
  I. Domínguez Cerdeña
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Astrophysical processes
• Dynamics of thick discs around Schwarzschild-de Sitter black holes     p. 603
  L. Rezzolla, O. Zanotti and J. A. Font
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Extragalactic astronomy
• Revisiting the location and environment of the central engine in NGC 1068     p. 615
  E. Galliano, D. Alloin, G. L. Granato and M. Villar-Martín
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• The luminous and dark matter content of disk galaxies     p. 633
  J. Zavala, V. Avila-Reese, H. Hernández-Toledo and C. Firmani
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• Optical spectroscopy of BL Lac objects: New redshifts and mis-identified sources     p. 651
  N. Carangelo, R. Falomo, J. Kotilainen, A. Treves and M.-H. Ulrich
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• Cold molecular gas in cooling flow clusters of galaxies     p. 657
  P. Salomé and F. Combes
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• NGC 5953/54: BVRIHJK photometry and [N II] Fabry-Perot interferometry - I. The data     p. 669
  H. M. Hernández-Toledo, I. Fuentes-Carrera, M. Rosado, I. Cruz-González, A. Franco-Balderas and D. Dultzin-Hacyan
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• An XMM-Newton study of the hard X-ray sky     p. 689
  E. Piconcelli, M. Cappi, L. Bassani, G. Di Cocco and M. Dadina
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Research Note:

• A catalogue of absorption-line systems in QSO spectra     p. 707
  A. I. Ryabinkov, A. D. Kaminker and D. A. Varshalovich
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• Wide band X-ray and optical observations of the BL Lac object 1ES 1959+650 in high state     p. 711
  G. Tagliaferri, M. Ravasio, G. Ghisellini, F. Tavecchio, P. Giommi, E. Massaro, R. Nesci and G. Tosti
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Galactic structure, stellar clusters and populations
• CCD photometric search for peculiar stars in open clusters - V. NGC 2099, NGC 3114, NGC 6204, NGC 6705 and NGC 6756     p. 721
  E. Paunzen, O. I. Pintado and H. M. Maitzen
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• H excitation imaging of the Orion Molecular Cloud     p. 727
  L. E. Kristensen, M. Gustafsson, D. Field, G. Callejo, J. L. Lemaire, L. Vannier and G. Pineau des Forêts
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Interstellar and circumstellar matter
• Bispectrum speckle interferometry of the massive protostellar outflow source AFGL 2591     p. 735
  T. Preibisch, Y. Y. Balega, D. Schertl and G. Weigelt
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• Hiding the high excitation in the head of a fast Herbig-Haro jet     p. 745
  A. C. Raga and J. Cantó
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• The Trumpler 14 photodissociation region in the Carina Nebula     p. 751
  K. J. Brooks, P. Cox, N. Schneider, J. W. V. Storey, A. Poglitsch, N. Geis and L. Bronfman
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• Search for molecular emission from V838 Monocerotis     p. 767
  M. T. Rushton, I. M. Coulson, A. Evans, L.-Å. Nyman, B. Smalley, T. R. Geballe, J. Th. van Loon, S. P. S. Eyres and V. H. Tyne
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• Anomalously bright UV lines of Fe II as a probe of gas condensations in the vicinity of hot stars     p. 771
  S. Johansson and V. S. Letokhov
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Stellar structure and evolution
• Are rotating strange quark stars good sources of gravitational waves?     p. 777
  D. Gondek-Rosinska, E. Gourgoulhon and P. Haensel
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• The correlation between planetary nebula morphology and radio brightness temperatures     p. 791
  J. P. Phillips
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• XMM-Newton light curves of the low-mass X-ray binary EXO 0748-676: Dips, eclipses, and bursts     p. 799
  J. Homan, R. Wijnands and M. van den Berg
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• Differential rotation in rapidly rotating F-stars     p. 813
  A. Reiners and J. H. M. M. Schmitt
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• A precise HST parallax of the cataclysmic variable EX Hydrae, its system parameters, and accretion rate     p. 821
  K. Beuermann, Th. E. Harrison, B. E. McArthur, G. F. Benedict and B. T. Gänsicke
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• The chemical composition of the peculiar companion to the millisecond pulsar in NGC 6397     p. 829
  E. Sabbi, R. G. Gratton, A. Bragaglia, F. R. Ferraro, A. Possenti, F. Camilo and N. D'Amico
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Stellar atmospheres
• Theoretical UBVRI colors of iron core white dwarfs     p. 837
  J. Madej, M. Pietrachowicz, P. C. Joss, A. Majczyna, A. Rózanska and M. Nalezyty
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• A spatially resolved limb flare on Algol B observed with XMM-Newton     p. 849
  J. H. M. M. Schmitt, J.-U. Ness and G. Franco
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The Sun
• A measure of the network radiative properties over the solar activity cycle     p. 857
  I. Ermolli, F. Berrilli and A. Florio
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• High energy particles accelerated during the large solar flare of 1990 May 24: X/ -ray observations     p. 865
  N. Vilmer, A. L. MacKinnon, G. Trottet and C. Barat
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Research Note:

• An orthonormal set of Stokes profiles     p. 875
  J. C. del Toro Iniesta and A. López Ariste
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Planets and planetary systems
• Activity on the surface of the nucleus of comet 46P/Wirtanen     p. 879
  O. Groussin and P. Lamy
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Instruments, observational techniques, and data processing
• Restoration of solar images by the Steer algorithm     p. 893
  H. Koshiishi
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• The nature of the fiber noise with the FOCES spectrograph - Nature, modeling and a way to achieve S/N     p. 897
  F. Grupp
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Research Note:

• On Maximum Likelihood Estimation of averaged power spectra     p. 903
  T. Appourchaux
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