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A&A Vol. 424 No. 1

	Astronomy and Astrophysics
	Vol. 424 No. 1 (September II 2004)
Cover illustration: The P-C relation of LMC Cepheids. Inserts: Same for Galaxy (Sandage, A., et al., p. 48)

Cosmology (including clusters of galaxies)

A multi-wavelength study of the proto-cluster surrounding the z = 4.1 radio galaxy TN J1338-1942 p. 1
C. De Breuck, F. Bertoldi, C. Carilli, A. Omont, B. Venemans, H. Röttgering, R. Overzier, M. Reuland, G. Miley, R. Ivison and W. van Breugel
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Mass-sheet degeneracy: Fundamental limit on the cluster mass reconstruction from statistical (weak) lensing p. 13
M. Bradac, M. Lombardi and P. Schneider
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Extragalactic astronomy

The K20 survey - VI. The distribution of the stellar masses in galaxies up to $z \simeq\,2$ p. 23
A. Fontana, L. Pozzetti, I. Donnarumma, A. Renzini, A. Cimatti, G. Zamorani, N. Menci, E. Daddi, E. Giallongo, M. Mignoli, C. Perna, S. Salimbeni, P. Saracco, T. Broadhurst, S. Cristiani, S. D'Odorico and R. Gilmozzi
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New period-luminosity and period-color relations of classical Cepheids - II. Cepheids in LMC p. 43
A. Sandage, G. A. Tammann and B. Reindl
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Influence of a generalized Eddington bias on galaxy counts p. 73
P. Teerikorpi
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Transformations of galaxies in the environments of the cluster ABCG 209 at z $\mathsf{\sim}$ 0.2 p. 79
A. Mercurio, G. Busarello, P. Merluzzi, F. La Barbera, M. Girardi and C. P. Haines
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New candidate GHz peaked spectrum and compact steep spectrum sources p. 91
P. G. Edwards and S. J. Tingay
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The optical-near-infrared colour of the host galaxies of BL Lacertae objects p. 107
J. K. Kotilainen and R. Falomo
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The unfriendly ISM in the radio galaxy 4C 12.50 (PKS 1345+12) p. 119
R. Morganti, T. A. Oosterloo, C. N. Tadhunter, R. Vermeulen, Y. M. Pihlström, G. van Moorsel and K. A. Wills
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A Carbon star approach to IC 10: Distance and correct size p. 125
S. Demers, P. Battinelli and B. Letarte
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Galactic structure, stellar clusters and populations

X-ray sources and their optical counterparts in the globular cluster M 22 p. 133
N. A. Webb, D. Serre, B. Gendre, D. Barret, J.-P. Lasota and L. Rizzi
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Interstellar and circumstellar matter

$\boldmath\mathsf}$ SiO v = 1 and v = 2, J = 1-0 maser variability in evolved stars. Eleven years of short spaced monitoring p. 145
J. R. Pardo, J. Alcolea, V. Bujarrabal, F. Colomer, A. del Romero and P. de Vicente

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Proper motion analysis of the jet of R Aquarii p. 157
K. Mäkinen, H. J. Lehto, R. Vainio and D. R. H. Johnson
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High-resolution near-infrared speckle interferometry and radiative transfer modeling of the OH/IR star OH 104.9+2.4 p. 165
D. Riechers, Y. Balega, T. Driebe, K.-H. Hofmann, A. B. Men'shchikov and G. Weigelt
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Nature of two massive protostellar candidates: IRAS 21307+5049 and IRAS 22172+5549 p. 179
F. Fontani, R. Cesaroni, L. Testi, S. Molinari, Q. Zhang, J. Brand and C. M. Walmsley
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Erratum:

Rings in the haloes of planetary nebulae p. 197
R. L. M. Corradi, P. Sánchez-Blázquez, G. Mellema, C. Giammanco and H. E. Schwarz
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Stellar structure and evolution

The calibration of the RGB Tip as a Standard Candle - Extension to Near Infrared colors and higher metallicity p. 199
M. Bellazzini, F. R. Ferraro, A. Sollima, E. Pancino and L. Origlia
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A young binary brown dwarf in the R-CrA star formation region p. 213
H. Bouy, W. Brandner, E. L. Martín, X. Delfosse, F. Allard, I. Baraffe, T. Forveille and R. Demarco
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On the origin of giant pulses in radio pulsars p. 227
S. A. Petrova
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The distribution of oxygen on the surface of the Ap star $\theta$ Aur - An abundance Doppler image to compare with $\epsilon$ UMa p. 237
J. B. Rice, D. E. Holmgren and D. A. Bohlender
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EROS 2 photometry of probable R Coronae Borealis stars in the Small Magellanic Cloud p. 245
P. Tisserand, J. B. Marquette, J. P. Beaulieu, P. de Laverny, É. Lesquoy, A. Milsztajn, C. Afonso, J. N. Albert, J. Andersen, R. Ansari, É. Aubourg, P. Bareyre, F. Bauer, G. Blanc, X. Charlot, C. Coutures, F. Derue, R. Ferlet, P. Fouqué, J. F. Glicenstein, B. Goldman, A. Gould, D. Graff, M. Gros, J. Haissinski, C. Hamadache, J. de Kat, T. Lasserre, L. Le Guillou, C. Loup, C. Magneville, B. Mansoux, É. Maurice, A. Maury, M. Moniez, N. Palanque-Delabrouille, O. Perdereau, L. Prévot, Y. Rahal, N. Regnault, J. Rich, M. Spiro, A. Vidal-Madjar, L. Vigroux and S. Zylberajch
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The Sun

Balltracking: An highly efficient method for tracking flow fields p. 253
H. E. Potts, R. K. Barrett and D. A. Diver
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A kinetic control of the heliospheric interface hydrodynamics of charge-exchanging fluids p. 263
H. J. Fahr and M. Bzowski
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The role of chromospheric mottles in the mass balance and heating of the solar atmosphere p. 279
G. Tsiropoula and K. Tziotziou
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Dynamics of solar coronal loops - II. Catastrophic cooling and high-speed downflows p. 289
D. A. N. Müller, H. Peter and V. H. Hansteen
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Impact of observational duty cycle on the measurement of low- $\mathsf{\ell}$ solar p-mode frequencies p. 301
W. J. Chaplin, Y. Elsworth, G. R. Isaak, B. A. Miller, R. New and D. Salabert
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Long-term variation in distribution of sunspot groups p. 311
E. Forgács-Dajka, B. Major and T. Borkovits
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Planets and planetary systems

The concentration of calcium ions and of free electrons in a meteor coma p. 317
P. B. Babadzhanov and G. I. Kokhirova
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Sublimating components in the coma of comet C/2000 WM $\mathsf$ (LINEAR) p. 325
G. P. Tozzi, L. M. Lara, L. Kolokolova, H. Boehnhardt, J. Licandro and R. Schulz
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First observation of Jupiter by XMM-Newton p. 331
G. Branduardi-Raymont, R. F. Elsner, G. R. Gladstone, G. Ramsay, P. Rodriguez, R. Soria and J. H. Waite Jr.
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Celestial mechanics and astrometry

Precise calibration of CCD images with a small field of view - Application to observations of Phoebe p. 339
Q. Y. Peng, A. Vienne, Y. B. Han and Z. L. Li
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Erratum:

An approximation to the errors in the planetary ephemerides of the Astronomical Almanac p. 345
E. M. Standish
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Atomic, molecular and nuclear data

Temperature dependence of the Lyman $\alpha$ line wings in cool hydrogen-rich white dwarf atmospheres. Application to ZZ Ceti white dwarf spectra p. 347
N. F. Allard, J. F. Kielkopf and B. Loeillet
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Oscillator strengths for transitions to Rydberg levels in $\mathsf}$ C $\mathsf}$ O, $\mathsf}$ C $\mathsf}$ O and $\mathsf}$ C $\mathsf}$ O between 967 and 972 Å p. 355
M. Eidelsberg, J. L. Lemaire, J. H. Fillion, F. Rostas, S. R. Federman and Y. Sheffer
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Dirac-Fock energy levels and transition probabilities for oxygen-like Fe XIX p. 363
V. Jonauskas, F. P. Keenan, M. E. Foord, R. F. Heeter, S. J. Rose, G. J. Ferland, R. Kisielius, P. A. M. van Hoof and P. H. Norrington
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On-line catalogs and data

A deep WSRT 1.4 GHz radio survey of the Spitzer Space Telescope FLSv region p. 371
R. Morganti, M. A. Garrett, S. Chapman, W. Baan, G. Helou and T. Soifer
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