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A&A Vol. 431 No. 3

	Astronomy and Astrophysics
	Vol. 431 No. 3 (March I 2005)
Cover illustration: PMAS line flux and FWMH maps of the HoII X-1 region (Lehmann, I., et al., p. 851)

Letters

Line broadening of EUV lines across the Solar limb: A spicule contribution? p. L17
J. G. Doyle, J. Giannikakis, L. D. Xia and M. S. Madjarska
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Gravitationally lensed radio emission associated with SMM J16359+6612, a multiply imaged submillimeter galaxy behind A 2218 p. L21
M. A. Garrett, K. K. Knudsen and P. P. van der Werf
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Cosmology (including clusters of galaxies)

Properties of Ly $\alpha$ emitters around the radio galaxy MRC 0316-257^, p. 793
B. P. Venemans, H. J. A. Röttgering, G. K. Miley, J. D. Kurk, C. De Breuck, R. A. Overzier, W. J. M. van Breugel, C. L. Carilli, H. Ford, T. Heckman, L. Pentericci and P. McCarthy
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Extragalactic astronomy

The peculiar galaxy Mkn 298 revisited with integral field spectroscopy p. 813
M. Radovich, S. Ciroi, M. Contini, P. Rafanelli, V. L. Afanasiev and S. N. Dodonov
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Class transitions and two component accretion flow in GRS 1915+105 p. 825
S. K. Chakrabarti, A. Nandi, A. K. Chatterjee, A. K. Choudhury and U. Chatterjee
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A supermassive binary black hole in the quasar 3C 345 p. 831
A. P. Lobanov and J. Roland
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Integral field spectroscopy of the ultraluminous X-ray source Holmberg II X-1 p. 847
I. Lehmann, T. Becker, S. Fabrika, M. Roth, T. Miyaji, V. Afanasiev, O. Sholukhova, S. F. Sánchez, J. Greiner, G. Hasinger, E. Costantini, A. Surkov and A. Burenkov
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Large scale inhomogeneity and local dynamical friction p. 861
A. Just and J. Peñarrubia
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Q0957+561 revised: CO emission from a disk at z = 1.4 p. 879
M. Krips, R. Neri, A. Eckart, D. Downes, J. Martín-Pintado and P. Planesas
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Starbursting nuclear CO disks of early-type spiral galaxies p. 887
J. Koda, T. Okuda, K. Nakanishi, K. Kohno, S. Ishizuki, N. Kuno and S. K. Okumura
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Predictions for high-frequency radio surveys of extragalactic sources p. 893
G. De Zotti, R. Ricci, D. Mesa, L. Silva, P. Mazzotta, L. Toffolatti and J. González-Nuevo
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The star cluster population of M 51 - II. Age distribution and relations among the derived parameters p. 905
N. Bastian, M. Gieles, H. J. G. L. M. Lamers, R. A. Scheepmaker and R. de Grijs
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Galactic structure, stellar clusters and populations

Multi-seeded multi-mode formation of embedded clusters in the RMC: Clusters formed in swept-up shells p. 925
J. Z. Li and M. D. Smith
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Chemical composition of evolved stars in the open cluster NGC 7789 p. 933
G. Tautvaisiene, B. Edvardsson, E. Puzeras and I. Ilyin
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Proper motion measurements as indicators of binarity in open clusters p. 943
E. Bica and C. Bonatto
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Interstellar and circumstellar matter

Spectral properties of nonthermal X-ray emission from the shell-type SNR RX J1713.7-3946 as revealed by XMM-Newton p. 953
J. S. Hiraga, Y. Uchiyama, T. Takahashi and F. A. Aharonian
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The evolution of planetary nebulae - II. Circumstellar environment and expansion properties p. 963
D. Schönberner, R. Jacob, M. Steffen, M. Perinotto, R. L. M. Corradi and A. Acker
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The disrupted molecular envelope of Frosty Leo p. 979
A. Castro-Carrizo, V. Bujarrabal, C. Sánchez Contreras, R. Sahai and J. Alcolea
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Subarcsecond mid-infrared and radio observations of the W3 IRS5 protocluster p. 993
F. F. S. van der Tak, P. G. Tuthill and W. C. Danchi
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Stellar structure and evolution

High resolution spectroscopy of the hot post-AGB stars IRAS 13266-5551 (CPD-55 5588) and IRAS 17311-4924 (Hen3-1428) p. 1007
G. Sarkar, M. Parthasarathy and B. E. Reddy
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Stellar atmospheres

The K-band intensity profile of R Leonis probed by VLTI/VINCI p. 1019
D. Fedele, M. Wittkowski, F. Paresce, M. Scholz, P. R. Wood and S. Ciroi
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The X-ray activity of the slowly rotating G giant $\delta$ CrB p. 1027
P. Gondoin
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The Sun

On the origin of microwave zebra pattern p. 1037
A. T. Altyntsev, A. A. Kuznetsov, N. S. Meshalkina, G. V. Rudenko and Yihua Yan
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Coronal phenomena at the release of solar energetic electron events p. 1047
K.-L. Klein, S. Krucker, G. Trottet and S. Hoang
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Heliospheric energetic neutral atoms as a means to determine the anomalous cosmic ray spectrum at the termination shock p. 1061
A. Czechowski, M. Hilchenbach and K.C. Hsieh

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Solar prominences with Na and Mg emissions and centrally reversed Balmer lines p. 1069
G. Stellmacher and E. Wiehr
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The viewing angle effect on H $_\alpha$ -line impact polarisation in impulsive solar events p. 1075
V. V. Zharkova and L. K. Kashapova

The viewing angle effect on H $_\alpha$ -line impact polarisation in impulsive solar events p. 1075
V. V. Zharkova and L. K. Kashapova
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Influence of random magnetic field on solar global oscillations: The incompressible f-mode p. 1083
R. Erdélyi, A. Kerekes and N. Mole
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Solar low- $\ell$ p-mode damping by MHD turbulence p. 1089
S. L. Bi and X. Y. Yan
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Transverse oscillations in solar coronal loops induced by propagating Alfvénic pulses p. 1095
L. Del Zanna, E. Schaekens and M. Velli
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Planets and planetary systems

Doppler follow-up of OGLE transiting companions in the Galactic bulge p. 1105
F. Bouchy, F. Pont, C. Melo, N. C. Santos, M. Mayor, D. Queloz and S. Udry
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Flux of meteoroid impacts on Mercury p. 1123
S. Marchi, A. Morbidelli and G. Cremonese

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Statistical properties of exoplanets - IV. The period-eccentricity relations of exoplanets and of binary stars p. 1129
J. L. Halbwachs, M. Mayor and S. Udry
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Celestial mechanics and astrometry

Demonstration of gaps due to Jupiter in meteoroid streams. What happened with the 2003 Pi-Puppids? p. 1139
J. Vaubaillon and F. Colas
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Analytical investigation of the orbital structure close to the 1:1:1 resonance in spheroidal galaxies p. 1145
S. Breiter, A. Elipe and I. Wytrzyszczak
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Instruments, observational techniques, and data processing

On measuring planetary winds using high-resolution spectroscopy in visible wavelengths p. 1157
T. Civeit, T. Appourchaux, J.-P. Lebreton, D. Luz, R. Courtin, C. Neiner, O. Witasse and D. Gautier
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Evolution strategies applied to the problem of line profile decomposition in QSO spectra p. 1167
R. Quast, R. Baade and D. Reimers
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A method for determining radio continuum spectra and its application to large surveys p. 1177
B. Vollmer, E. Davoust, P. Dubois, F. Genova, F. Ochsenbein and W. van Driel
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On-line catalogs and data

Variable stars in the dwarf irregular galaxy NGC 6822: The photometric catalogue p. 1189
L. Baldacci, L. Rizzi, G. Clementini and E. V. Held
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