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	Astronomy and Astrophysics
	Vol. 442 No. 2 (November I 2005)
Cover illustration: 3D map of the interstellar medium behind the Vela SNR shock (Miceli, M., et al., p. 521)

Letters
• Swift XRT observations of the breaking X-ray afterglow of GRB 050318     p. L1
  M. Perri, P. Giommi, M. Capalbi, L. Amati, F. Frontera, G. Chincarini, S. Campana, A. Moretti, P. Romano, G. Tagliaferri, G. Cusumano, V. La Parola, V. Mangano, T. Mineo, D. N. Burrows, J. E. Hill, J. A. Kennea, D. C. Morris, C. Pagani, J. A. Nousek, L. Angelini, N. Gehrels, M. Still, A. P. Beardmore, M. R. Goad, O. Godet, P. T. O'Brien, J. P. Osborne and K. L. Page
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• Magnetic collimation of the relativistic jet in M 87     p. L7
  J. Gracia, K. Tsinganos and S. V. Bogovalov
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• The heliomagnetic and solar-cycle related variations of the cosmic ray flux modeled with the BoPo-hybrid code     p. L11
  K. Scherer and S. E. S. Ferreira
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• Accretion mode changes in Centaurus X-3     p. L15
  B. Paul, H. Raichur and U. Mukherjee
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• Gas and dust properties in the afterglow spectra of GRB 050730     p. L21
  R. L. C. Starling, P. M. Vreeswijk, S. L. Ellison, E. Rol, K. Wiersema, A. J. Levan, N. R. Tanvir, R. A. M. J. Wijers, C. Tadhunter, J. R. Zaurin, R. M. Gonzalez Delgado and C. Kouveliotou
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Cosmology (including clusters of galaxies)
• The impact of gas physics on strong cluster lensing     p. 405
  E. Puchwein, M. Bartelmann, K. Dolag and M. Meneghetti
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• Strong lensing efficiency of galaxy clusters in dark energy cosmologies     p. 413
  M. Meneghetti, M. Bartelmann, K. Dolag, L. Moscardini, F. Perrotta, C. Baccigalupi and G. Tormen
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• The VIRMOS deep imaging survey - IV. Near-infrared observations     p. 423
  A. Iovino, H. J. McCracken, B. Garilli, S. Foucaud, O. Le Fèvre, D. Maccagni, P. Saracco, S. Bardelli, G. Busarello, M. Scodeggio, A. Zanichelli, L. Paioro, D. Bottini, V. Le Brun, J. P. Picat, R. Scaramella, L. Tresse, G. Vettolani, C. Adami, M. Arnaboldi, S. Arnouts, M. Bolzonella, A. Cappi, S. Charlot, P. Ciliegi, T. Contini, P. Franzetti, I. Gavignaud, L. Guzzo, O. Ilbert, B. Marano, C. Marinoni, A. Mazure, B. Meneux, R. Merighi, S. Paltani, R. Pellò, A. Pollo, L. Pozzetti, M. Radovich, G. Zamorani, E. Zucca, E. Bertin, M. Bondi, A. Bongiorno, O. Cucciati, L. Gregorini, G. Mathez, Y. Mellier, P. Merluzzi, V. Ripepi and D. Rizzo
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Extragalactic astronomy
• HST photometry of the binary globular cluster Sersic 13N-S in NGC 5128     p. 437
  D. Villegas, D. Minniti and J. G. Funes
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• Physical conditions in the dwarf local irregular galaxy IC 10 - I. Diffuse ionized gas     p. 443
  A. M. Hidalgo-Gámez
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• The large asymmetric HI envelope of the isolated galaxy NGC 864 (CIG 96)     p. 455
  D. Espada, A. Bosma, L. Verdes-Montenegro, E. Athanassoula, S. Leon, J. Sulentic and M. S. Yun
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• X-ray absorption lines suggest matter infalling onto the central black-hole of Mrk 509     p. 461
  M. Dadina, M. Cappi, G. Malaguti, G. Ponti and A. De Rosa
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• XMM-Newton spectral properties of the ultraluminous IRAS galaxy Mrk 273     p. 469
  I. Balestra, Th. Boller, L. Gallo, D. Lutz and S. Hess
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• Molecular gas in NUclei of GAlaxies (NUGA) - III. The warped LINER NGC 3718     p. 479
  M. Krips, A. Eckart, R. Neri, J. U. Pott, S. Leon, F. Combes, S. García-Burillo, L. K. Hunt, A. J. Baker, L. J. Tacconi, P. Englmaier, E. Schinnerer and F. Boone
  Abstract | Full HTML | PDF file (722 KB) | PS file (865 KB) | References



• Discovery of nine quasars behind the Large Magellanic Cloud     p. 495
  A. Dobrzycki, L. Eyer, K. Z. Stanek and L. M. Macri
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Galactic structure, stellar clusters and populations
• Source blending effects on microlensing time-histograms and optical depth determination     p. 501
  Y. Alibert, G. Chabrier and G. Massacrier
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Interstellar and circumstellar matter
• Laboratory production of magnesium sulfide grains and their characteristic infrared spectra due to shape     p. 507
  Y. Kimura, M. Kurumada, K. Tamura, C. Koike, H. Chihara and C. Kaito
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• Shock-cloud interaction in the Vela SNR observed with XMM-Newton     p. 513
  M. Miceli, F. Bocchino, A. Maggio and F. Reale
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• CH OH abundance in low mass protostars     p. 527
  S. Maret, C. Ceccarelli, A. G. G. M. Tielens, E. Caux, B. Lefloch, A. Faure, A. Castets and D. R. Flower
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• The nature of the X-ray halo of the plerion G21.5-0.9 unveiled by XMM-Newton and Chandra     p. 539
  F. Bocchino, E. van der Swaluw, R. Chevalier and R. Bandiera
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• Time-dependent MHD shocks and line emission: the case of the DG Tau jet     p. 549
  S. Massaglia, A. Mignone and G. Bodo
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Stellar structure and evolution
• Spectral state transitions in low-mass X-ray binaries - the effect of hard and soft irradiation     p. 555
  B. F. Liu, F. Meyer and E. Meyer-Hofmeister
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Research Note

• Abundances of a sample of A and F-type dwarf members of the Ursa Major Group     p. 563
  R. Monier
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• Gravitational-darkening of Altair from interferometry     p. 567
  A. Domiciano de Souza, P. Kervella, S. Jankov, F. Vakili, N. Ohishi, T. E. Nordgren and L. Abe
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• The coughing pulsar magnetosphere     p. 579
  I. Contopoulos
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• On the metallicity dependence of Wolf-Rayet winds     p. 587
  Jorick S. Vink and A. de Koter
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• Dust-enshrouded giants in clusters in the Magellanic Clouds     p. 597
  J. Th. van Loon, J. R. Marshall and A. A. Zijlstra
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• Time scales of Li evolution: a homogeneous analysis of open clusters from ZAMS to late-MS     p. 615
  P. Sestito and S. Randich
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• Discovery of fourteen new ZZ Cetis with SOAR     p. 629
  S. O. Kepler, B. G. Castanheira, M. F. O. Saraiva, A. Nitta, S. J. Kleinman, F. Mullally, D. E. Winget and D. J. Eisenstein
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Stellar atmospheres
• Metallicity of M dwarfs - I. A photometric calibration and the impact on the mass-luminosity relation at the bottom of the main sequence     p. 635
  X. Bonfils, X. Delfosse, S. Udry, N. C. Santos, T. Forveille and D. Ségransan
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• Effects of line-blocking on the non-LTE Fe I spectral line formation     p. 643
  R. Collet, M. Asplund and F. Thévenin
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• Zeeman tomography of magnetic white dwarfs - II. The quadrupole-dominated magnetic field of HE 1045-0908     p. 651
  F. Euchner, K. Reinsch, S. Jordan, K. Beuermann and B. T. Gänsicke
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The Sun
• AFS dynamics in a short-lived active region     p. 661
  F. Zuccarello, V. Battiato, L. Contarino, P. Romano, D. Spadaro and L. Vlahos
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• Proton and helium release times in SEP events observed with SOHO/ERNE     p. 673
  K. Huttunen-Heikinmaa, E. Valtonen and T. Laitinen
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• Simulation on solar type II radio bursts associated with corona mass ejections     p. 687
  J. I. Sakai, T. Mori and S. Saito
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• Temporal variations in the magnetic network large-scale dynamics     p. 693
  N. Meunier
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Planets and planetary systems
• Evolution of protoplanetary disks: constraints from DM Tauri and GM Aurigae     p. 703
  R. Hueso and T. Guillot
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• 221 Eos: a remnant of a partially differentiated parent body?     p. 727
  T. Mothé-Diniz and J. M. Carvano
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• On the potential of extrasolar planet transit surveys     p. 731
  M. Gillon, F. Courbin, P. Magain and B. Borguet
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Celestial mechanics and astrometry
• Systematic motions in the galactic plane found in the Hipparcos catalogue using Herschel's Method     p. 745
  C. Abad and K. Vieira
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Atomic, molecular and nuclear data
• Electron-ion recombination of Be-like C, N, and O     p. 757
  M. Fogle, N. R. Badnell, P. Glans, S. D. Loch, S. Madzunkov, Sh. A. Abdel-Naby, M. S. Pindzola and R. Schuch
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Instruments, observational techniques, and data processing
• A broadband FFT spectrometer for radio and millimeter astronomy     p. 767
  A. O. Benz, P. C. Grigis, V. Hungerbühler, H. Meyer, C. Monstein, B. Stuber and D. Zardet
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• Line bisectors and radial velocity jitter from SARG spectra     p. 775
  A. F. Martínez Fiorenzano, R. G. Gratton, S. Desidera, R. Cosentino and M. Endl
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