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A&A Vol. 416 No. 1

	Astronomy and Astrophysics
	Vol. 416 No. 1 (March II 2004)
Cover illustration: Gravitational lensing of quasars: caustic structures and micro-image configurations (Treyer, M., & Wambsganss, J., p. 24)

Cosmology (including clusters of galaxies)

Fluctuations of K-band galaxy counts p. 1
M. López-Corredoira and J. E. Betancort-Rijo
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Detection and discrimination of cosmological non-Gaussian signatures by multi-scale methods p. 9
J.-L. Starck, N. Aghanim and O. Forni
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Astrometric microlensing of quasars - Dependence on surface mass density and external shear p. 19
M. Treyer and J. Wambsganss
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Extragalactic astronomy

Radio emission from AGN detected by the VLA FIRST survey p. 35
Y. Wadadekar
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Dust emission in early-type galaxies: The mid-infrared view p. 41
E. M. Xilouris, S. C. Madden, F. Galliano, L. Vigroux and M. Sauvage
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The hot and cool component of the symbiotic nova SMC 3 - A supersoft X-ray variable and a small-amplitude red variable p. 57
P. Kahabka
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The rotating visible outflow in M 82 p. 67
A. Greve
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A comprehensive set of elemental abundances in damped Ly $\alpha$ systems: Revealing the nature of these high-redshift galaxies p. 79
M. Dessauges-Zavadsky, F. Calura, J. X. Prochaska, S. D'Odorico and F. Matteucci
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Carbon star survey of Local Group galaxies - X. Wolf-Lundmark-Melotte a galaxy with an extreme C/M ratio p. 111
P. Battinelli and S. Demers
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An extragalactic HII region in the Virgo cluster p. 119
L. Cortese, G. Gavazzi, A. Boselli and J. Iglesias-Paramo
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Galactic structure, stellar clusters and populations

Proper motion surveys of the young open clusters Alpha Persei and the Pleiades p. 125
N. R. Deacon
and N. C. Hambly
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Mass segregation in young Magellanic Cloud star clusters: Four clusters observed with HST p. 137
D. Gouliermis, S. C. Keller, M. Kontizas, E. Kontizas and I. Bellas-Velidis
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Erratum:

A synthetic view on structure and evolution of the Milky Way p. 157
A. C. Robin, C. Reylé, S. Derrière and S. Picaud
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Interstellar and circumstellar matter

First detection of triply-deuterated methanol p. 159
B. Parise, A. Castets, E. Herbst, E. Caux, C. Ceccarelli, I. Mukhopadhyay and A. G. G. M. Tielens
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Tentative identification of urea and formamide in ISO-SWS infrared spectra of interstellar ices p. 165
S. Raunier, T. Chiavassa, F. Duvernay, F. Borget, J. P. Aycard, E. Dartois and L. d'Hendecourt
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Radio observations of HD 93129A: The earliest O star with the highest mass loss? p. 171
P. Benaglia and B. Koribalski
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A search for evolved dust in Herbig Ae stars p. 179
A. Natta, L. Testi, R. Neri, D. S. Shepherd and D. J. Wilner
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The heat capacity of water ice in interstellar or interplanetary conditions p. 187
L. M. Shulman
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On the internal structure of starless cores - I. Physical conditions and the distribution of CO, CS, N $\mathsf$ H $\mathsf$ , and NH $\mathsf$ in L1498 and L1517B p. 191
M. Tafalla, P. C. Myers, P. Caselli and C. M. Walmsley
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Detection of a warm molecular wind in DG Tauri p. 213
M. Takami, A. Chrysostomou, T. P. Ray, C. Davis, W. R. F. Dent, J. Bailey, M. Tamura and H. Terada
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An XMM-Newton observation of the massive binary HD 159176 p. 221
M. De Becker, G. Rauw, J. M. Pittard, I. I. Antokhin, I. R. Stevens, E. Gosset and S. P. Owocki
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Surface C-H stretching features on meteoritic nanodiamonds p. 235
A. P. Jones, L. B. d'Hendecourt,
S.-Y. Sheu, H.-C. Chang, C.-L. Cheng and H. G. M. Hill
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An unusual high-ionization nebula in NGC 55 p. 243
R. Tüllmann and M. R. Rosa
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Intermediate scale structure of the interstellar medium towards NGC 6231 in Sco OB1 with FUSE p. 251
O. Marggraf, H. Bluhm and K. S. de Boer
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Stellar structure and evolution

Luminous supersoft X-ray sources p. 263
O. M. Bitzaraki, H. Rovithis-Livaniou, C. A. Tout and E. P. J. van den Heuvel
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Coronal versus photospheric abundances of stars with different activity levels p. 281
J. Sanz-Forcada, F. Favata and G. Micela
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Another single hydrogen-rich Wolf-Rayet star in the SMC? p. 291
C. Foellmi
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Comparative study of the two large flares from SGR1900+14 with the BeppoSAX Gamma-Ray Burst Monitor p. 297
C. Guidorzi, F. Frontera, E. Montanari, M. Feroci, L. Amati, E. Costa and M. Orlandini
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X-ray spectral evolution of SAX J1747.0-2853 during outburst activity and confirmation of its transient nature p. 311
N. Werner, J. J. M. in't Zand, L. Natalucci, C. B. Markwardt, R. Cornelisse, A. Bazzano, M. Cocchi, J. Heise and P. Ubertini
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Research Note:

On the close optical companion of V1494 Aql: Problems with light curve modelling p. 319
L. L. Kiss, B. Csák and A. Derekas
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The Sun

Soft X-ray analysis of a loop flare on the Sun p. 323
J. I. Khan, H. S. Hudson and Z. Mouradian
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DOT tomography of the solar atmosphere - II. Reversed granulation in Ca II H p. 333
R. J. Rutten, A. G. de Wijn and P. Sütterlin
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Solar p-mode frequencies at $\mathsf{\ell=2}$ : What do analyses of unresolved observations actually measure? p. 341
W. J. Chaplin, T. Appourchaux, Y. Elsworth, G. R. Isaak, B. A. Miller, R. New and T. Toutain
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Planets and planetary systems

Photometry and models of selected main belt asteroids I. 52 Europa, 115 Thyra, and 382 Dodona p. 353
T. Michalowski, T. Kwiatkowski, M. Kaasalainen, W. Pych, A. Kryszczynska, P. A. Dybczynski, F. P. Velichko, A. Erikson, P. Denchev, S. Fauvaud and Gy. M. Szabó
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Celestial mechanics and astrometry

Photocentre offset in ultraprecise astrometry: Implications for barycentre determination and asteroid modelling p. 367
M. Kaasalainen and P. Tanga
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Atomic, molecular and nuclear data

Dipole allowed and intercombination transitions in K $^{\mathsf7+}$ and Ti $^{\mathsf}$ ions p. 375
R. Das, N. C. Deb, K. Roy and A. Z. Msezane
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Relativistic allowed and forbidden transition probabilities for fluorine-like Fe XVIII p. 383
V. Jonauskas, F. P. Keenan, M. E. Foord, R. F. Heeter, S. J. Rose, P. A. M. van Hoof, G. J. Ferland, K. M. Aggarwal, R. Kisielius and P. H. Norrington
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Instruments, observational techniques, and data processing

Automatic detection of arcs and arclets formed by gravitational lensing p. 391
F. Lenzen, S. Schindler and O. Scherzer
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A simple but efficient algorithm for multiple-image deblurring p. 403
R. Vio, J. Nagy, L. Tenorio and W. Wamsteker
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