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	Astronomy and Astrophysics
	Vol. 416 No. 3 (March IV 2004)
Cover illustration: Multiwavelength image of the radio-halo galaxy cluster A2219 (Boschin W., et al., p. 847)

Letters
• Predicted rotation signatures in MHD disc winds and comparison to DG Tau observations     p. L9
  N. Pesenti, C. Dougados, S. Cabrit, J. Ferreira, F. Casse, P. Garcia and D. O'Brien
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• Collisional excitation and ionization of hydrogen by return current in solar flares     p. L13
  M. Karlický, J. Kasparová and P. Heinzel
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• Discovery of very nearby ultracool dwarfs from DENIS     p. L17
  T. R. Kendall, X. Delfosse, E. L. Martín and T. Forveille
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• Implications of the central metal abundance peak in cooling core clusters of galaxies     p. L21
  H. Böhringer, K. Matsushita, E. Churazov, A. Finoguenov and Y. Ikebe
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• A pair of gigantic bipolar dust jets close to the solar system     p. L27
  R. Weinberger and B. Armsdorfer
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• Reabsorption of self-generated turbulent energy by pick-up protons in the outer heliosphere     p. L31
  S. V. Chalov, D. B. Alexashov and H. J. Fahr
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• ISAAC/VLT observations of a lensed galaxy at z = 10.0     p. L35
  R. Pelló, D. Schaerer, J. Richard, J.-F. Le Borgne and J.-P. Kneib
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Astrophysical processes
• A two-level atom in the field of a gravitational wave - on the possibility of parametric resonance     p. 815
  S. V. Siparov
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Research Note:

• A note on transition, turbulent length scales and transport in differentially rotating flows     p. 825
  D. Richard and S. S. Davis
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Cosmology (including clusters of galaxies)
• Deep near-infrared imaging of RDCS J1252.9-2927 at z = 1.237 - The colour-magnitude diagram     p. 829
  C. Lidman, P. Rosati, R. Demarco, M. Nonino, V. Mainieri, S. A. Stanford and S. Toft
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• Internal dynamics of the radio-halo cluster A2219: A multi-wavelength analysis     p. 839
  W. Boschin, M. Girardi, R. Barrena, A. Biviano, L. Feretti and M. Ramella
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• Numerical study of halo concentrations in dark-energy cosmologies     p. 853
  K. Dolag, M. Bartelmann, F. Perrotta, C. Baccigalupi, L. Moscardini, M. Meneghetti and G. Tormen
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• Galaxy luminosity evolution: How much is due to model choice?     p. 865
  S. Andreon
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• Thermodynamic evolution of cosmological baryonic gas - I. Influence of non-equipartition processes     p. 875
  S. Courty and J. M. Alimi
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Extragalactic astronomy
• Photometric structure of polar-ring galaxies     p. 889
  V. P. Reshetnikov
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• The XMM-Newton HBS28 sample: Studying the obscuration in hard X-ray selected AGNs     p. 901
  A. Caccianiga, P. Severgnini, V. Braito, R. Della Ceca, T. Maccacaro, A. Wolter, X. Barcons, F. J. Carrera, I. Lehmann, M. J. Page, R. Saxton and N. A. Webb
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• 2MASS NIR photometry for 693 candidate globular clusters in M 31 and the Revised Bologna Catalogue     p. 917
  S. Galleti, L. Federici, M. Bellazzini, F. Fusi Pecci and S. Macrina
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Galactic structure, stellar clusters and populations
• Abundance analysis of turn-off and early subgiant stars in the globular cluster 47 Tuc (NGC 104)     p. 925
  E. Carretta, R. G. Gratton, A. Bragaglia, P. Bonifacio and L. Pasquini
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• Cepheid distances from infrared long-baseline interferometry - I. VINCI/VLTI observations of seven Galactic Cepheids     p. 941
  P. Kervella, N. Nardetto, D. Bersier, D. Mourard and V. Coudé du Foresto
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Interstellar and circumstellar matter
• The 3-D ionization structure and evolution of NGC 7009 (Saturn Nebula)     p. 955
  F. Sabbadin, M. Turatto, E. Cappellaro, S. Benetti and R. Ragazzoni
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• FTIR and Raman analyses of the Tagish Lake meteorite: Relationship with the aliphatic hydrocarbons observed in the Diffuse Interstellar Medium     p. 983
  G. Matrajt, J. Borg, P. I. Raynal, Z. Djouadi, L. d'Hendecourt, G. Flynn and D. Deboffle
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Stellar structure and evolution
• Energy release due to antineutrino untrapping and diquark condensation in hot quark star evolution     p. 991
  D. N. Aguilera, D. Blaschke and H. Grigorian
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• Neutron star mergers versus core-collapse supernovae as dominant r-process sites in the early Galaxy     p. 997
  D. Argast , M. Samland , F.-K. Thielemann  and Y.-Z. Qian 
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• Hyperon softening of the EOS of dense matter and the spin evolution of isolated neutron stars     p. 1013
  J. L. Zdunik, P. Haensel, E. Gourgoulhon and M. Bejger
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• Diffusion in stellar interiors: Critical tests of three numerical methods     p. 1023
  G. Meynet, A. Maeder and N. Mowlavi
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• The Anomalous X-ray Pulsar 4U 0142+61: Variability in the infrared and a spectral break in the optical     p. 1037
  F. Hulleman, M. H. van Kerkwijk and S. R. Kulkarni
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• XMM-Newton observations of OY Car III: OM light curve modelling, X-ray timing and spectral studies     p. 1047
  P. Hakala and G. Ramsay
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• Accretion disc evolution in DW Ursae Majoris: A photometric study     p. 1057
  V. Stanishev, Z. Kraicheva, H. M. J. Boffin, V. Genkov, C. Papadaki and S. Carpano
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• Line-profile variability in the Cephei star Centauri     p. 1069
  C. Schrijvers, J. H. Telting and C. Aerts
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• Convection in the atmospheres and envelopes of Pre-Main Sequence stars     p. 1081
  J. Montalbán, F. D'Antona, F. Kupka and U. Heiter
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• Key parameters of W UMa-type contact binaries discovered by HIPPARCOS     p. 1097
  S. O. Selam
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Stellar atmospheres
• The peculiar variable V838 Monocerotis     p. 1107
  T. Kipper, V. G. Klochkova, K. Annuk, A. Hirv, I. Kolka, L. Leedjärv, A. Puss, P. Skoda and M. Slechta
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• First stars V - Abundance patterns from C to Zn and supernova yields in the early Galaxy     p. 1117
  R. Cayrel, E. Depagne, M. Spite, V. Hill, F. Spite, P. François, B. Plez, T. Beers, F. Primas, J. Andersen, B. Barbuy, P. Bonifacio, P. Molaro and B. Nordström
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• Electrostatic instability in electron-positron pairs injected in an external electric field     p. 1139
  K. Asano and F. Takahara
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• Discovery of a huge magnetic field in the very young star NGC 2244-334 in the Rosette Nebula cluster     p. 1149
  S. Bagnulo, H. Hensberge, J. D. Landstreet, T. Szeifert and G. A. Wade
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The Sun
• On the efficiency of plasma heating by Pedersen current dissipation from the photosphere to the lower corona     p. 1159
  M. L. Goodman
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• Search for 1-10 Hz modulations in coronal emission with SECIS during the August 11, 1999 eclipse     p. 1179
  P. Rudawy, K. J. H. Phillips, P. T. Gallagher, D. R. Williams, B. Rompolt and F. P. Keenan
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Celestial mechanics and astrometry
• Analytical theory of the motion of Phobos: A comparison with numerical integration     p. 1187
  P. Waz
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Instruments, observational techniques, and data processing
• Optical turbulence modeling in the boundary layer and free atmosphere using instrumented meteorological balloons     p. 1193
  A. Abahamid, A. Jabiri, J. Vernin, Z. Benkhaldoun, M. Azouit and A. Agabi
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