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	Astronomy and Astrophysics
	Vol. 422 No. 2 (August I 2004)
Cover illustration: A microquasar ejected from a star cluster by a supernova (Mirabel, I. F., et al. p. 31)

Letters
• SZ effect from Dark Matter annihilation     p. L23
  S. Colafrancesco
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• A microquasar shot out from its birth place     p. L29
  I. F. Mirabel, I. Rodrigues and Q. Z. Liu
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• Detection of Lyman- emission from a DLA galaxy: Possible implications for a luminosity-metallicity relation at z = 2-3     p. L33
  P. Møller, J. P. U. Fynbo and S. M. Fall
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• Physical models of large number of asteroids from calibrated photometry sparse in time     p. L39
  M. Kaasalainen
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• Water ice on the surface of the large TNO 2004 DW     p. L43
  S. Fornasier, E. Dotto, M. A. Barucci and C. Barbieri
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Astrophysical processes
• On the origin of X-ray flashes     p. 381
  S. Dado, A. Dar and A. De Rújula
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• On the contribution of charge-exchange induced X-ray emission in the ISM and ICM     p. 391
  R. Lallement
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Cosmology (including clusters of galaxies)
• The Dyer-Roeder relation in a universe with particle production     p. 401
  M. de Campos and J. A. Souza
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• Mass and light in the supercluster of galaxies MS0302+17     p. 407
  R. Gavazzi, Y. Mellier, B. Fort, J.-C. Cuillandre and M. Dantel-Fort
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• Statistical characteristics of large scale structure     p. 423
  M. Demianski and A. G. Doroshkevich
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• Cooling of X-ray emitting gas by heat conduction in the center of cooling flow clusters     p. 445
  N. Soker, E. L. Blanton and C. L. Sarazin
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• An overdensity of extremely red objects around faint mid-IR galaxies     p. 453
  P. Väisänen and P. H. Johansson
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Extragalactic astronomy
• Thick disks of lenticular galaxies - 3D-photometric thin/thick disk decomposition of eight edge-on S0 galaxies     p. 465
  M. Pohlen, M. Balcells, R. Lütticke and R.-J. Dettmar
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• Anomalous fluctuations in observations of Q0957+561 A,B: Smoking gun of a cosmic string?     p. 477
  R. Schild, I. S. Masnyak, B. I. Hnatyk and V. I. Zhdanov
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• Tiny-scale molecular structures in the Magellanic Clouds - I. FUSE, HST and VLT observations     p. 483
  M. K. André, F. Le Petit, P. Sonnentrucker, R. Ferlet, E. Roueff, T. Civeit, J-.M. Désert, S. Lacour and A. Vidal-Madjar
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Research Note:

• Near infrared intraday variability of Mrk 421     p. 505
  A. C. Gupta, D. P. K. Banerjee, N. M. Ashok and U. C. Joshi
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Erratum:

• VLT + UVES spectroscopy of the low-ionization intrinsic absorber in SDSS J001130.56+005550.7     p. 509
  D. Hutsemékers, P. B. Hall and J. Brinkmann
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• The oxygen abundance gradient in M 101: The reliability of the P method     p. 511
  B. Cedrés, M. A. Urbaneja and J. Cepa
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• Radio galaxies in cooling core clusters. Renewed activity in the nucleus of 3C 317?     p. 515
  T. Venturi, D. Dallacasa and F. Stefanachi
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• The ratio of the C IV 1548,1550 rest-wavelengths from high-redshift QSO absorption lines     p. 523
  P. Petitjean and B. Aracil
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Galactic structure, stellar clusters and populations
• uvby- photometry of high-velocity and metal-poor stars - X. Stars of very low metal abundance: Observations, reddenings, metallicities, classifications, distances, and relative ages     p. 527
  W. J. Schuster, T. C. Beers, R. Michel, P. E. Nissen and G. García
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• Revisiting the radial distribution of pulsars in the Galaxy     p. 545
  I. Yusifov and I. Küçük
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• Discovery of three optical open clusters in the Galaxy     p. 555
  E. Bica, C. Bonatto and C. M. Dutra
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Interstellar and circumstellar matter
• Me 1-1: A PN containing a cool star     p. 563
  Z.-X. Shen, X.-W. Liu and I. J. Danziger
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• Methanol as a diagnostic tool of interstellar clouds - I. Model calculations and application to molecular clouds     p. 573
  S. Leurini, P. Schilke, K. M. Menten, D. R. Flower, J. T. Pottage and L.-H. Xu
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• Magnetic fields of pulsars surrounded by accretion disks of finite extension     p. 587
  N. R. Sibgatullin, I. N. Sibgatullin, A. A. Garcia and V. S. Manko
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• Dust-to-gas ratios in the Kepler supernova remnant     p. 591
  M. Contini
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• Candidates for giant lobes projecting from the LBV stars P Cygni and R 143     p. 603
  J. Meaburn, P. Boumis, M. P. Redman, J. A. López and F. Mavromatakis
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• The effects of spin-down on the structure and evolution of pulsar wind nebulae     p. 609
  N. Bucciantini, R. Bandiera, J. M. Blondin, E. Amato and L. Del Zanna
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• Correlation between grain growth and disk geometry in Herbig Ae/Be systems     p. 621
  B. Acke, M. E. van den Ancker, C. P. Dullemond, R. van Boekel and L. B. F. M. Waters
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Stellar structure and evolution
• Speckle interferometry of nearby multiple stars. II.     p. 627
  I. Balega, Y. Y. Balega, A. F. Maksimov, E. A. Pluzhnik, D. Schertl, Z. U. Shkhagosheva and G. Weigelt
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• High resolution spectroscopy of brown dwarfs in Taurus - Detection of accretion in KPNO-Tau-3     p. 631
  D. Barrado y Navascués
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• Optical and infrared spectroscopic analysis of the post-AGB star candidate IRAS 19386+0155     p. 637
  C. B. Pereira, S. Lorenz-Martins and M. Machado
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• Probing the inner wind of AGB stars: Interferometric observations of SiO millimetre line emission from the oxygen-rich stars R Dor and L Pup     p. 651
  F. L. Schöier, H. Olofsson, T. Wong, M. Lindqvist and F. Kerschbaum
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Stellar atmospheres
• On the irradiated stellar atmospheres in close binary systems: Improvements and uncertainties     p. 665
  A. Claret
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• X-ray emission lines from inhomogeneous stellar winds     p. 675
  L. M. Oskinova, A. Feldmeier and W.-R. Hamann
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The Sun
• Thermal-magnetic relation in a sunspot and a map of its Wilson depression     p. 693
  S. K. Mathew, S. K. Solanki, A. Lagg, M. Collados, J. M. Borrero and S. Berdyugina
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• Solar polarimetry in the near UV with the Zurich Imaging Polarimeter ZIMPOL II     p. 703
  A. M. Gandorfer, H. P. Povel, P. Steiner, F. Aebersold, U. Egger, A. Feller, D. Gisler, S. Hagenbuch and J. O. Stenflo
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• Statistical comparison of transition region blinkers and explosive events     p. 709
  A. Brkovic and H. Peter
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Planets and planetary systems
• Gas and dust in Comet C/2000 WM1 during its closest approach to Earth: Optical imaging and long-slit spectroscopy     p. 717
  L.-M. Lara, G. P. Tozzi, H. Boehnhardt, M. DiMartino and R. Schulz
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Atomic, molecular and nuclear data
• Benchmarking atomic data for astrophysics:     p. 731
  G. Del Zanna, K. A. Berrington and H. E. Mason
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Instruments, observational techniques, and data processing
• A new polarimeter for (sub)millimeter bolometer arrays     p. 751
  G. Siringo, E. Kreysa, L. A. Reichertz and K. M. Menten
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