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A&A Vol. 438 No. 1

	Astronomy and Astrophysics
	Vol. 438 No. 1 (July IV 2005)
Cover illustration: ESO338 - Left: EW(Lyα); Right: O_III (r), UV (g), Lyα (b) (Hayes, M., et al., p. 78)

Letters

Discovery and monitoring of the likely IR counterpart of SGR 1806-20 during the 2004 $\gamma$ -ray burst-active state p. L1
G. Israel, S. Covino, R. Mignani, L. Stella, G. Marconi, V. Testa, S. Mereghetti, S. Campana, N. Rea, D. Götz, R. Perna and G. Lo Curto
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Scattering of gravitational waves by the weak gravitational fields of lens objects p. L5
R. Takahashi, T. Suyama and S. Michikoshi
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The projection factor of $\mathsf{\delta}$ Cephei - A calibration of the Baade-Wesselink method using the CHARA Array p. L9
A. Mérand, P. Kervella, V. Coudé du Foresto, S. T. Ridgway, J. P. Aufdenberg, T. A. ten Brummelaar, D. H. Berger, J. Sturmann, L. Sturmann, N. H. Turner and H. A. McAlister
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Astrophysical processes

Further experiments on collisional tribocharging of cosmic grains p. 1
T. Poppe and R. Schräpler
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The shocking properties of supersonic flows: Dependence of the thermal overstability on M, $\alpha$ , and T $\mathsf}\,$ / $\,$ T $\mathsf}$ p. 11
J. M. Pittard, M. S. Dobson, R. H. Durisen, J. E. Dyson, T. W. Hartquist and J. T. O'Brien
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Solitary waves in self-gravitating molecular clouds p. 23
T. Cattaert and F. Verheest
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Dissociative recombination of e + HCNH⁺: Diabatic potential curves and dynamics calculations p. 31
A. P. Hickman, R. D. Miles, C. Hayden and D. Talbi
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Extragalactic astronomy

The WEBT campaign to observe AO 0235+16 in the 2003-2004 observing season - Results from radio-to-optical monitoring and XMM-Newton observations p. 39
C. M. Raiteri, M. Villata, M. A. Ibrahimov, V. M. Larionov, M. Kadler, H .D. Aller, M. F. Aller, Y. Y. Kovalev, L. Lanteri, K. Nilsson, I. E. Papadakis, T. Pursimo, G. E. Romero, H. Teräsranta, M. Tornikoski, A. A. Arkharov, D. Barnaby, A. Berdyugin, M. Böttcher, K. Byckling, M. T. Carini, D. Carosati, S. A. Cellone, S. Ciprini, J. A. Combi, S. Crapanzano, R. Crowe, A. Di Paola, M. Dolci, L. Fuhrmann, M. Gu, V. A. Hagen-Thorn, P. Hakala, V. Impellizzeri, S. Jorstad, J. Kerp, G. N. Kimeridze, Yu. A. Kovalev, A. Kraus, T. P. Krichbaum, O. M. Kurtanidze, A. Lähteenmäki, E. Lindfors, M. G. Mingaliev, R. Nesci, M. G. Nikolashvili, J. Ohlert, M. Orio, L. Ostorero, M. Pasanen, A. Pati, C. Poteet, E. Ros, J. A. Ros, P. Shastri, L. A. Sigua, A. Sillanpää, N. Smith, L. O. Takalo, G. Tosti, A. Vasileva, S. J. Wagner, R. Walters, J. R. Webb, W. Wills, A. Witzel and E. Xilouris
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Non-thermal emission from AGN coronae p. 55
G. Torricelli-Ciamponi, P. Pietrini and A. Orr
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HST/ACS Lyman $\alpha$ imaging of the nearby starburst ESO 338-IG04 p. 71
M. Hayes, G. Östlin, J. M. Mas-Hesse, D. Kunth, C. Leitherer and A. Petrosian
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Star formation rates and mass distributions in interacting galaxies p. 87
W. Kapferer, A. Knapp, S. Schindler, S. Kimeswenger and E. van Kampen
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The distance to Hydra and Centaurus from surface brightness fluctuations: Consequences for the Great Attractor model p. 103
S. Mieske, M. Hilker and L. Infante
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The broad-band X-ray spectrum of the blazar PKS B1830-211 by Chandra and INTEGRAL p. 121
A. De Rosa, L. Piro, A. Tramacere, E. Massaro, R. Walter, L. Bassani, A. Malizia, A. J. Bird and A. J. Dean
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Dark matter in the inner parts of barred galaxies: The data p. 127
I. Pérez, I. Márquez, K. Freeman and R. Fux
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Galactic structure, stellar clusters and populations

Abundance trends in kinematical groups of the Milky Way's disk p. 139
C. Soubiran and P. Girard
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Constraining galactic models through parallax and astrometry of microlensing events p. 153
S. Rahvar and S. Ghassemi
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Interstellar and circumstellar matter

Enhanced X-ray variability from V1647 Ori, the young star in outburst illuminating McNeil's Nebula p. 159
N. Grosso, J. H. Kastner, H. Ozawa, M. Richmond, T. Simon, D. A. Weintraub, K. Hamaguchi and A. Frank
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Optimal column density measurements from multiband near-infrared observations p. 169
M. Lombardi
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Diffuse interstellar bands of unprecedented strength in the line of sight towards high-mass X-ray binary 4U 1907+09 p. 187
N. L. J. Cox , L. Kaper , B. H. Foing and P. Ehrenfreund
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Stellar structure and evolution

A photometric study of the light variations of the triple system DG Leo p. 201
P. Lampens, Y. Frémat, R. Garrido, J. H. Peña, L. Parrao, P. Van Cauteren, J. Cuypers, P. De Cat, K. Uytterhoeven, T. Arentoft and M. Hobart
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Discovery of 1323 s pulsations from RX J0103.6-7201: The longest period X-ray pulsar in the SMC p. 211
F. Haberl and W. Pietsch
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Variation of the line profile moments for stars pulsating in distorted oblique non-radial modes p. 219
O. Kochukhov
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Iron abundances derived from RR Lyrae light curves and low-dispersion spectroscopy p. 227
G. Kovács
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Spectroscopic behaviour of the unusual Ae star HD 190073 p. 239
M. A. Pogodin, G. A. P. Franco and D. F. Lopes
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Abundances of Na, Mg and Al in stars with giant planets p. 251
P. Beirão, N. C. Santos, G. Israelian and M. Mayor
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Balloon 090100001: A short and long period pulsating sdB star p. 257
R. Oreiro, F. Pérez Hernández, A. Ulla, R. Garrido, R. Østensen and J. MacDonald
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A Be star with a low nitrogen abundance in the SMC cluster NGC 330 p. 265
D. J. Lennon, J.-K. Lee, P. L. Dufton and R. S. I. Ryans
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An empirical formula for the mass-loss rates of dust-enshrouded red supergiants and oxygen-rich Asymptotic Giant Branch stars p. 273
J. Th. van Loon, M.-R. L. Cioni, A. A. Zijlstra and C. Loup
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Stellar atmospheres

X-ray observations of the old open stellar cluster NGC 188 p. 291
P. Gondoin
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Lower mass loss rates in O-type stars: Spectral signatures of dense clumps in the wind of two Galactic O4 stars p. 301
J.-C. Bouret, T. Lanz and D. J. Hillier
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Outbursts on normal stars - FH Leo misclassified as a novalike variable p. 317
T. H. Dall, L. Schmidtobreick, N. C. Santos and G. Israelian
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The Sun

Thermal and non-thermal effects driven by magnetic reconnections observed in a confined flare p. 325
H. Li, A. Berlicki and B. Schmieder
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Generation of microwave bursts with zebra pattern by nonlinear interaction of Bernstein modes p. 341
A. A. Kuznetsov
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Spherical harmonic decomposition of solar magnetic fields p. 349
R. Knaack and J. O. Stenflo
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Spectrum and amplitudes of internal gravity waves excited by penetrative convection in solar-type stars p. 365
B. Dintrans, A. Brandenburg, Å. Nordlund and R. F. Stein
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Instruments, observational techniques, and data processing

The Kyiv Meridian Axial Circle catalogue of stars in fields with extragalactic radio sources p. 377
P. Lazorenko, Yu. Babenko, V. Karbovsky, M. Buromsky, O. Denisjuk and S. Kasjan
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