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A&A Vol. 429 No. 3

	Astronomy and Astrophysics
	Vol. 429 No. 3 (January III 2005)
Cover illustration: Modulation of the polarization in pulsar PSR B0809+74 (Rankin, J.M., et al., p. 1005)

Letters

Gamma-ray bursts and other sources of giant lightning discharges in protoplanetary systems p. L41
B. McBreen, E. Winston, S. McBreen and L. Hanlon
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The soft X-ray counterpart of the newly discovered INTEGRAL source IGR J16195-4945 p. L47
L. Sidoli, S. Vercellone, S. Mereghetti and M. Tavani
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The strange case of a sub-DLA with very little HI p. L51
N. Kanekar and J. N. Chengalur
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Rotational periods of four roAp stars p. L55
T. Ryabchikova, G. A. Wade, M. Aurière, S. Bagnulo, J.-F. Donati, S. V. Jeffers, N. Johnson, J. D. Landstreet, F. Lignières, T. Lueftinger, S. Marsden, D. Mouillet, F. Paletou, P. Petit, P. Reegen, J. Silvester, S. Strasser and N. Toque
Abstract | Full HTML | PDF file (218 KB) | PS file (246 KB) | References

Astrophysical processes

On the spectrum of high-energy cosmic rays produced by supernova remnants in the presence of strong cosmic-ray streaming instability and wave dissipation p. 755
V. S. Ptuskin and V. N. Zirakashvili
Abstract | Full HTML | PDF file (329 KB) | PS file (450 KB) | References

"Swing Absorption" of fast magnetosonic waves in inhomogeneous media p. 767
B. M. Shergelashvili, T. V. Zaqarashvili, S. Poedts and B. Roberts
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A stability property of a force-free surface bounding a vacuum gap p. 779
J. J. Aly
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Cosmology (including clusters of galaxies)

Spatial energy spectrum of primordial magnetic fields p. 785
G. Siemieniec-Ozieblo
Abstract | Full HTML | PDF file (182 KB) | PS file (114 KB) | References

XMM-Newton observations of three poor clusters: Similarity in dark matter and entropy profiles down to low mass p. 791
G. W. Pratt and M. Arnaud
Abstract | Full HTML | PDF file (1.20 MB) | PS file (3.01 MB) | References

Cosmological parameters from supernova observations: A critical comparison of three data sets p. 807
T. R. Choudhury and T. Padmanabhan
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Extragalactic astronomy

Peculiarities and populations in elliptical galaxies - II. Visual-near IR colours as population indices p. 819
R. Michard
Abstract | Full HTML | PDF file (163 KB) | PS file (47.9 KB) | References

The Leo Triplet: Common origin or late encounter? p. 825
V. L. Afanasiev and O. K. Sil'chenko
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Near-IR observations of NGC 6822: AGB stars, distance, metallicity and structure p. 837
M.-R. L. Cioni and H. J. Habing
Abstract | Full HTML | PDF file (1.98 MB) | PS file (1.42 MB) | References

The H $\alpha$ Galaxy Survey - II. Extinction and [NII] corrections to H $\alpha$ fluxes p. 851
P. A. James, N. S. Shane, J. H. Knapen, J. Etherton and S. M. Percival
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Interpretations of gamma-ray burst spectroscopy - I. Analytical and numerical study of spectral lags p. 869
F. Ryde
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Galactic structure, stellar clusters and populations

Radial velocities and membership of stars in the old, distant open cluster Berkeley 29 p. 881
A. Bragaglia, E. V. Held and M. Tosi
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The distance to the Pleiades - Main sequence fitting in the near infrared p. 887
S. M. Percival, M. Salaris and M. A. T. Groenewegen
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Kinematics of stars and brown dwarfs at birth p. 895
E. Moraux and C. Clarke
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Interstellar and circumstellar matter

The G9.62+0.19-F hot molecular core - The infrared view on very young massive stars p. 903
H. Linz, B. Stecklum, Th. Henning, P. Hofner and B. Brandl
Abstract | Full HTML | PDF file (2.68 MB) | PS file (9.67 MB) | References | Online Material

ISO observations of the Galactic center interstellar medium - Ionized gas p. 923
N. J. Rodríguez-Fernández and J. Martín-Pintado
Abstract | Full HTML | PDF file (1.35 MB) | PS file (1.70 MB) | References

The pre-main sequence spectroscopic binary UZ Tau East: Improved orbital parameters and accretion phase dependence p. 939
E. L. Martín, A. Magazzù, X. Delfosse and R. D. Mathieu
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Star-forming protoclusters associated with methanol masers p. 945
V. Minier, M. G. Burton, T. Hill, M. R. Pestalozzi, C. R. Purcell, G. Garay, A. J. Walsh and S. Longmore
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Erratum

A study of the Galactic star forming region IRAS 02593+6016/S 201 in infrared and radio wavelengths p. 961
D. K. Ojha, S. K. Ghosh, V. K. Kulkarni, L. Testi, R. P. Verma and S. Vig
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Stellar structure and evolution

The X-ray emission from Young Stellar Objects in the $\rho$ Ophiuchi cloud core as seen by XMM-Newton p. 963
H. Ozawa, N. Grosso and T. Montmerle
Abstract | Full HTML | PDF file (965 KB) | PS file (1.65 MB) | References | Online Material

Molecules in bipolar proto-planetary nebulae p. 977
P. M. Woods, L.-Å. Nyman, F. L. Schöier, A. A. Zijlstra, T. J. Millar and H. Olofsson
Abstract | Full HTML | PDF file (1.19 MB) | PS file (1.13 MB) | References | Online Material

High-resolution spectroscopic observations of the D'-type symbiotic stars HD 330036 and AS 201 p. 993
C. B. Pereira, V. V. Smith and K. Cunha
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PSR B0809+74: Understanding its perplexing subpulse-separation (P $_\mathsf{2}$ ) variations p. 999
Joanna M. Rankin, R. Ramachandran and Svetlana A. Suleymanova
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Rotation and variability of very low mass stars and brown dwarfs near $\epsilon$ Ori p. 1007
A. Scholz and J. Eislöffel
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Chemical compositions of four B-type supergiants in the SMC wing p. 1025
J.-K. Lee, W. R. J. Rolleston, P. L. Dufton and R. S. I. Ryans
Abstract | Full HTML | PDF file (188 KB) | PS file (67.8 KB) | References

Stellar atmospheres

New analysis of the two carbon-rich stars CS 22948-27 and CS 29497-34: Binarity and neutron capture elements p. 1031
B. Barbuy, M. Spite, F. Spite, V. Hill, R. Cayrel, B. Plez and P. Petitjean
Abstract | Full HTML | PDF file (316 KB) | PS file (95.4 KB) | References

The field Am and $\mathsf{\rho}$ Puppis-like stars: Lithium and heavier elements p. 1043
C. Burkhart, M. F. Coupry, R. Faraggiana and M. Gerbaldi
Abstract | Full HTML | PDF file (683 KB) | PS file (1.06 MB) | References

On the potassium-rotation connection in late-type Alpha Persei stars p. 1051
E. L. Martín, A. Magazzù, R. J. García López, S. Randich and D. Barrado y Navascués
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Mid-infrared interferometry of the Mira variable RR Sco with the VLTI MIDI instrument p. 1057
K. Ohnaka, J. Bergeat, T. Driebe, U. Graser, K.-H. Hofmann, R. Köhler, Ch. Leinert, B. Lopez, F. Malbet, S. Morel, F. Paresce, G. Perrin, Th. Preibisch, A. Richichi, D. Schertl, M. Schöller, H. Sol, G. Weigelt and M. Wittkowski
Abstract | Full HTML | PDF file (496 KB) | PS file (731 KB) | References

The Sun

Solar cycle influence on the interaction of the solar wind with Local Interstellar Cloud p. 1069
V. Izmodenov, Y. Malama and M. S. Ruderman
Abstract | Full HTML | PDF file (545 KB) | PS file (772 KB) | References | Online Material

Steady 2D prominence-like solutions of the MHD equations with field-aligned compressible flow p. 1081
G. J. D. Petrie, K. Tsinganos and T. Neukirch
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Century-scale persistence in longitude distribution in the Sun and in silico p. 1093
J. Pelt, I. Tuominen and J. Brooke
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Planets and planetary systems

Improved constraints on Neptune's atmosphere from submillimetre-wavelength observations p. 1097
A. Marten, H. E. Matthews, T. Owen, R. Moreno, T. Hidayat and Y. Biraud
Abstract | Full HTML | PDF file (338 KB) | PS file (1.79 MB) | References

Celestial mechanics and astrometry

The dynamics of the 1:2 resonant motion with Neptune in the 3D elliptic restricted three-body problem p. 1107
T. A. Kotoulas
Abstract | Full HTML | PDF file (230 KB) | PS file (196 KB) | References

Atomic, molecular and nuclear data

Effective collision strengths for transitions in Fe XIII p. 1117
K. M. Aggarwal and F. P. Keenan
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On-line catalogs and data

A catalogue of ultraluminous X-ray sources in external galaxies p. 1125
Q. Z. Liu and I. F. Mirabel
Abstract | Full HTML | PDF file (116 KB) | PS file (34.5 KB) | References

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