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A&A Vol. 423 No. 1

	Astronomy and Astrophysics
	Vol. 423 No. 1 (August III 2004)
Cover illustration: Radio halo around the Virgo cluster elliptical M86 (Vollmer, B., et al ., p. 61)

Letters

$\eta$ Carinae: The 1998 brightening and the smearing-out effect p. L1
A. M. van Genderen and C. Sterken
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Astrophysical processes

Protostellar angular momentum evolution during gravoturbulent fragmentation p. 1
A.-K. Jappsen and R. S. Klessen
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Radio emission and particle acceleration in plerionic supernova remnants p. 13
C. Nodes, G. T. Birk, M. Gritschneder and H. Lesch
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Cosmology (including clusters of galaxies)

A halo approach to the evaluation of the cross-correlation between the SZ sky and galaxy surveys p. 21
Y. Qu and X.-P. Wu
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The LEDA galaxy distribution - I. Maps of the local universe p. 27
H. Courtois, G. Paturel, T. Sousbie and F. Sylos Labini
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XMM-Newton observation of the relaxed cluster A478: Gas and dark matter distribution from 0.01R $_\mathsf$ to 0.5R $\mathsf}$ p. 33
E. Pointecouteau, M. Arnaud, J. Kaastra and J. de Plaa
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X-ray spectroscopy on Abell 478 with XMM-Newton p. 49
J. de Plaa, J. S. Kaastra, T. Tamura, E. Pointecouteau, M. Mendez and J. R. Peterson
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Detection of a radio halo in the Virgo cluster p. 57
B. Vollmer, W. Reich and R. Wielebinski
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The analysis of Abell 1835 using a deprojection technique p. 65
S. M. Jia, Y. Chen, F. J. Lu, L. Chen and F. Xiang
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The XMM-LSS survey - First high redshift galaxy clusters: Relaxed and collapsing systems p. 75
I. Valtchanov, M. Pierre, J. Willis, S. Dos Santos, L. Jones, S. Andreon, C. Adami, B. Altieri, M. Bolzonella, M. Bremer, P.-A. Duc, E. Gosset, C. Jean and J. Surdej
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Extragalactic astronomy

BVR photometry of the resolved dwarf galaxy Ho IX p. 87
T. B. Georgiev and D. J. Bomans
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Properties of RR Lyrae stars in the inner regions of the Large Magellanic Cloud p. 97
J. Borissova, D. Minniti, M. Rejkuba, D. Alves, K. H. Cook and K. C. Freeman
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Spectral index maps of the radio halos in Abell 665 and Abell 2163 p. 111
L. Feretti, E. Orrù, G. Brunetti, G. Giovannini, N. Kassim and G. Setti
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VLT/ISAAC spectra of the H $\beta$ region in intermediate redshift quasars p. 121
J. W. Sulentic, G. M. Stirpe, P. Marziani, R. Zamanov, M. Calvani and V. Braito
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Stellar populations in HII galaxies p. 133
P. Westera, F. Cuisinier, E. Telles and C. Kehrig
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Identifying a black hole X-ray transient in M 31 with XMM-Newton and Chandra p. 147
R. Barnard, U. Kolb and J. P. Osborne
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Galactic structure, stellar clusters and populations

The nature of the Galactic Center source IRS 13 revealed by high spatial resolution in the infrared p. 155
J. P. Maillard, T. Paumard, S. R. Stolovy and F. Rigaut
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Simulating star formation in molecular cores - II. The effects of different levels of turbulence p. 169
S. P. Goodwin, A. P. Whitworth and D. Ward-Thompson
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A mushroom-shaped structure from the impact of a cloud with the Galactic disk p. 183
Takahiro Kudoh and Shantanu Basu
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Red giants in open clusters - XI. Membership, duplicity, and structure of NGC 2477 p. 189
A. Eigenbrod, J.-C. Mermilliod, J. J. Clariá, J. Andersen and M. Mayor
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Interstellar and circumstellar matter

Chemical abundances of planetary nebulae towards the Galactic anticenter p. 199
R. D. D. Costa, M. M. M. Uchida and W. J. Maciel
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Polarimetric observations of OH masers in proto-planetary nebulae p. 209
M. Szymczak and E. Gérard
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A search for disks around exoplanet host stars p. 221
C. Saffe and M. Gómez
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Research Note:

Suggestions for an interstellar C $\mathsf$ H $\mathsf$ search p. 235
S. Chandra and S. A. Shinde
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Models of gas-grain chemistry in interstellar cloud cores with a stochastic approach to surface chemistry p. 241
T. Stantcheva and E. Herbst
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Magnetic Rayleigh-Taylor instability for Pulsar Wind Nebulae in expanding Supernova Remnants p. 253
N. Bucciantini, E. Amato, R. Bandiera, J. M. Blondin and L. Del Zanna
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Stellar structure and evolution

Line profile variations in WR+O binary systems - I. The code and basic predictions p. 267
L. N. Georgiev and G. Koenigsberger
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Long-term evolution of compact binaries with irradiation feedback p. 281
A. Büning and H. Ritter
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Evidence for a Neutron Star in the non-pulsating massive X-ray binary 4U2206+54 p. 301
J. M. Torrejón, I. Kreykenbohm, A. Orr, L. Titarchuk and I. Negueruela
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A look with BeppoSAX at the low-luminosity Galactic X-ray source 4U 2206+54 p. 311
N. Masetti, D. Dal Fiume, L. Amati, S. Del Sordo, F. Frontera, M. Orlandini and E. Palazzi
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Why soft X-ray transients can remain in the low/hard state during outburst p. 321
E. Meyer-Hofmeister
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Cepheid distances from infrared long-baseline interferometry - II. Calibration of the period-radius and period-luminosity relations p. 327
P. Kervella, D. Bersier, D. Mourard, N. Nardetto and V. Coudé du Foresto
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On the crossing mode of the long-period Cepheid SV Vulpeculae p. 335
D. G. Turner and L. N. Berdnikov
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First determination of the dynamical mass of a binary L dwarf p. 341
H. Bouy, G. Duchêne, R. Köhler, W. Brandner, J. Bouvier, E. L. Martín, A. Ghez, X. Delfosse, T. Forveille, F. Allard, I. Baraffe, G. Basri, L. Close and C. E. McCabe
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Stellar atmospheres

Chemical composition and evolutionary status of nine UV-bright stars in five globular clusters from VLT/UVES spectra p. 353
G. Jasniewicz, P. de Laverny, M. Parthasarathy, A. Lèbre and F. Thévenin
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The Sun

Relating magnetic field strengths to hard X-ray emission in solar flares p. 363
C. P. Goff, S. A. Matthews, L. van Driel-Gesztelyi and L. K. Harra
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Planets and planetary systems

The polarimetric properties of cometary dust and a possible effect of dust aging by the Sun p. 373
H. S. Das, A. K. Sen and C. L. Kaul
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Asteroidal I, J, K magnitudes recovered in the DENIS survey: Second release p. 381
A. Baudrand, A. Bec-Borsenberger and J. Borsenberger
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The HARPS search for southern extra-solar planets - I. HD 330075 b: A new "hot Jupiter" p. 385
F. Pepe, M. Mayor, D. Queloz, W. Benz, X. Bonfils, F. Bouchy, G. Lo Curto, C. Lovis, D. Mégevand, C. Moutou, D. Naef, G. Rupprecht, N. C. Santos, J.-P. Sivan, D. Sosnowska and S. Udry
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Modelling the Lyman $\beta$ dayglow in the Jovian atmosphere p. 391
M. Barthélemy, C. Parkinson, J. Lilensten and R. Prangé
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Atomic, molecular and nuclear data

Stark broadening of the four times ionized silicon spectral lines p. 397
N. Ben Nessib, M. S. Dimitrijevic and S. Sahal-Bréchot
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