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	Astronomy and Astrophysics
	Vol. 425 No. 3 (October III 2004)
Cover illustration: Type Ia supernova: burning front evolution (Travaglio, C., et al., p. 1032)

Letters
• Very luminous carbon stars in the outer disk of the Triangulum spiral galaxy     p. L37
  D. L. Block, K. C. Freeman, T. H. Jarrett, I. Puerari, G. Worthey, F. Combes and R. Groess
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• The self regulating star formation of gas rich dwarf galaxies in quiescent phase     p. L41
  M. A. R. Kobayashi and H. Kamaya
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• A purely geometric distance to the binary star Atlas, a member of the Pleiades     p. L45
  N. Zwahlen, P. North, Y. Debernardi, L. Eyer, F. Galland, M. A. T. Groenewegen and C. A. Hummel
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• Hard X-ray view of the past activity of Sgr A in a natural Compton mirror     p. L49
  M. G. Revnivtsev, E. M. Churazov, S. Yu. Sazonov, R. A. Sunyaev, A. A. Lutovinov, M. R. Gilfanov, A. A. Vikhlinin, P. E. Shtykovsky and M. N. Pavlinsky
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Astrophysical processes
• Relativistic Parker winds with variable effective polytropic index     p. 773
  Z. Meliani, C. Sauty, K. Tsinganos and N. Vlahakis
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Cosmology (including clusters of galaxies)
• Galaxy evolution in the environment of ABCG 209     p. 783
  C. P. Haines, A. Mercurio, P. Merluzzi, F. La Barbera, M. Massarotti, G. Busarello and M. Girardi
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• Probing galaxy evolution through the internal colour gradients, the Kormendy relations and the Photometric Plane of cluster galaxies at     p. 797
  F. La Barbera, P. Merluzzi, G. Busarello, M. Massarotti and A. Mercurio
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Extragalactic astronomy
• Kinematics of tidal tails in interacting galaxies: Tidal dwarf galaxies and projection effects     p. 813
  F. Bournaud, P.-A. Duc, P. Amram, F. Combes and J.-L. Gach
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• Optical nuclei of radio-loud AGN and the Fanaroff-Riley divide     p. 825
  P. Kharb and P. Shastri
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• Cluster formation versus star formation rates around six regions in the Large Magellanic Cloud     p. 837
  A. Subramaniam
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• Oxygen and nitrogen abundances in nearby galaxies - Correlations between oxygen abundance and macroscopic properties     p. 849
  L. S. Pilyugin, J. M. Vílchez and T. Contini
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• Spin vector orientations of galaxies in eight Abell clusters of BM type I     p. 871
  B. Aryal and W. Saurer
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• Evolutionary synthesis of galaxies at high spectral resolution with the code PEGASE-HR - Metallicity and age tracers     p. 881
  D. Le Borgne, B. Rocca-Volmerange, P. Prugniel, A. Lançon, M. Fioc and C. Soubiran
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• Volume filling factors of the ISM phases in star forming galaxies - I. The role of the disk-halo interaction     p. 899
  M. A. de Avillez and D. Breitschwerdt
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• UV star-formation rates of GRB host galaxies     p. 913
  L. Christensen, J. Hjorth and J. Gorosabel
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Galactic structure, stellar clusters and populations
• Substellar objects in star formation regions: A deep near infrared study in the Serpens cloud     p. 927
  A. Klotz, E. Caux, J.-L. Monin and N. Lodieu
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• The origin of massive O-type field stars - I. A search for clusters     p. 937
  W. J. de Wit, L. Testi, F. Palla, L. Vanzi and H. Zinnecker
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Interstellar and circumstellar matter
• A study of the long-term flux density variation of PSRs B0329+54 and B1508+55     p. 949
  A. Esamdin, A. Z. Zhou and X. J. Wu
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• Organic molecules in protoplanetary disks around T Tauri and Herbig Ae stars     p. 955
  W.-F. Thi, G.-J. van Zadelhoff and E. F. van Dishoeck
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• On the alignment of Classical T Tauri stars with the magnetic field in the Taurus-Auriga molecular cloud     p. 973
  F. Ménard and G. Duchêne
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• Collimated molecular jets from high-mass young stars: IRAS 18151-1208     p. 981
  C. J. Davis, W. P. Varricatt, S. P. Todd and S. K. Ramsay Howat
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Stellar structure and evolution
• New neighbours - III. 21 new companions to nearby dwarfs, discovered with adaptive optics     p. 997
  J.-L. Beuzit, D. Ségransan, T. Forveille, S. Udry, X. Delfosse, M. Mayor, C. Perrier, M.-C. Hainaut, C. Roddier, F. Roddier and E. L. Martín
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Research Note

• On the z-distribution of pulsars     p. 1009
  T. G. Mdzinarishvili and G. I. Melikidze
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• Beryllium anomalies in solar-type field stars     p. 1013
  N. C. Santos, G. Israelian, S. Randich, R. J. García López and R. Rebolo
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• Nucleosynthesis in multi-dimensional SN Ia explosions     p. 1029
  C. Travaglio, W. Hillebrandt, M. Reinecke and F.-K. Thielemann
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• The young pulsar PSR B0540-69.3 and its synchrotron nebula in the optical and X-rays     p. 1041
  N. I. Serafimovich, Yu. A. Shibanov, P. Lundqvist and J. Sollerman
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• Long term variability of Cygnus X-1 - III. Radio-X-ray correlations     p. 1061
  T. Gleissner, J. Wilms, G. G. Pooley, M. A. Nowak, K. Pottschmidt, S. Markoff, S. Heinz, M. Klein-Wolt, R. P. Fender and R. Staubert
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• -ray emission from microquasars: A numerical model for LSI +61303     p. 1069
  V. Bosch-Ramon and J. M. Paredes
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• Measuring mass and angular momentum of black holes with high-frequency quasi-periodic oscillations     p. 1075
  B. Aschenbach
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The Sun
• CDS wide slit time-series of EUV coronal bright points     p. 1083
  I. Ugarte-Urra, J. G. Doyle, V. M. Nakariakov and C. R. Foley
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• Automated recognition of coronal mass ejections (CMEs) in near-real-time data     p. 1097
  E. Robbrecht and D. Berghmans
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Planets and planetary systems
• Systematic astrometric observations of Proteus     p. 1107
  R. Vieira Martins, C. H. Veiga, P. Bourget, A. H. Andrei and P. Descamps
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• Terrestrial atmospheric effects induced by counterstreaming dense interstellar cloud material     p. 1113
  A. Yeghikyan and H. Fahr
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• Detection of neutral sodium above Mercury during the transit on 2003 May 7     p. 1119
  H. Schleicher, G. Wiedemann, H. Wöhl, T. Berkefeld and D. Soltau
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• Using color photometry to separate transiting exoplanets from false positives     p. 1125
  B. Tingley
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Celestial mechanics and astrometry
• The 3D restricted three-body problem under angular velocity variation     p. 1133
  K. E. Papadakis
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Research Note

• Celestial position of the companion of PSR J1740-5340     p. 1143
  C. G. Bassa and B. W. Stappers
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Atomic, molecular and nuclear data
• Stark broadening of Ga I spectral lines     p. 1147
  M. S. Dimitrijevic, M. Dacic, Z. Cvetkovic and Z. Simic
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• Dielectronic recombination data for dynamic finite-density plasmas - VIII. The nitrogen isoelectronic sequence     p. 1153
  D. M. Mitnik and N. R. Badnell
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Instruments, observational techniques, and data processing
• Data reduction methods for single-mode optical interferometry - Application to the VLTI two-telescopes beam combiner VINCI     p. 1161
  P. Kervella, D. Ségransan and V. Coudé du Foresto
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