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	Astronomy and Astrophysics
	Vol. 443 No. 1 (November III 2005)
Cover illustration: ACS images of two young cluster complexes in M 51 (Bastian, N., et al. p. 82)

Letters
• GRB 050904 at redshift 6.3: observations of the oldest cosmic explosion after the Big Bang     p. L1
  G. Tagliaferri, L. A. Antonelli, G. Chincarini, A. Fernández-Soto, D. Malesani, M. Della Valle, P. D'Avanzo, A. Grazian, V. Testa, S. Campana, S. Covino, F. Fiore, L. Stella, A. J. Castro-Tirado, J. Gorosabel, D. N. Burrows, M. Capalbi, G. Cusumano, M. L. Conciatore, V. D'Elia, P. Filliatre, D. Fugazza, N. Gehrels, P. Goldoni, D. Guetta, S. Guziy, E. V. Held, K. Hurley, G. L. Israel, M. Jelínek, D. Lazzati, A. López-Echarri, A. Melandri, I. F. Mirabel, M. Moles, A. Moretti, K. O. Mason, J. Nousek, J. Osborne, L. J. Pellizza, R. Perna, S. Piranomonte, L. Piro, A. de Ugarte Postigo and P. Romano
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• Multi-line spectroscopy of dark-cored penumbral filaments     p. L7
  L. R. Bellot Rubio, K. Langhans and R. Schlichenmaier
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• Helioseismic evidence of two solar granulation timescales     p. L11
  H. Vázquez Ramió, C. Régulo and T. Roca Cortés
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Cosmology (including clusters of galaxies)
• Where does the hard X-ray diffuse emission in clusters of galaxies come from?     p. 1
  S. Colafrancesco, P. Marchegiani and G. C. Perola
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• Basic properties of galaxy clustering in the light of recent results from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey     p. 11
  M. Joyce, F. Sylos Labini, A. Gabrielli, M. Montuori and L. Pietronero
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• The build-up of the Coma cluster by infalling substructures     p. 17
  C. Adami, A. Biviano, F. Durret and A. Mazure
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• ROSAT observations of the soft X-ray background and of the cluster soft excess emission in the Hercules supercluster     p. 29
  M. Bonamente, R. Lieu and J. Kaastra
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Extragalactic astronomy
• Star-formation in NGC 4038/4039 from broad and narrow band photometry: cluster destruction?     p. 41
  S. Mengel, M. D. Lehnert, N. Thatte and R. Genzel
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• An optical imaging study of 0.4 z 0.8 quasar host galaxies - II. Analysis and interpretation     p. 61
  E. Örndahl and J. Rönnback
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• Hierarchical star formation in M 51: star/cluster complexes     p. 79
  N. Bastian, M. Gieles, Yu. N. Efremov and H. J. G. L. M. Lamers
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• Study of DDO 68: nearest candidate for a young galaxy?     p. 91
  S. A. Pustilnik, A. Y. Kniazev and A. G. Pramskij
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• X-ray properties of NGC 300 - I. Global properties of X-ray point sources and their optical counterparts     p. 103
  S. Carpano, J. Wilms, M. Schirmer and E. Kendziorra
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• The chemistry of planetary nebulae and HII regions in the dwarf galaxies Sextans A and B from deep VLT spectra     p. 115
  L. Magrini, P. Leisy, R. L. M. Corradi, M. Perinotto, A. Mampaso and J. M. Vílchez
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• The contribution of rotational velocity to the FP of elliptical galaxies     p. 133
  A. Riciputi, B. Lanzoni, S. Bonoli and L. Ciotti
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Galactic structure, stellar clusters and populations
• Mira variables in the OGLE bulge fields     p. 143
  M. A. T. Groenewegen and J. A. D. L. Blommaert
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• CCD photometric search for peculiar stars in open clusters - VI. NGC 1502, NGC 3105, Stock 16, NGC 6268, NGC 7235 and NGC 7510     p. 157
  E. Paunzen, M. Netopil, I. Kh. Iliev, H. M. Maitzen, A. Claret and O. I. Pintado
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Interstellar and circumstellar matter
• VLT L-band mapping of the Galactic center IRS 3-IRS 13 region - Evidence for new Wolf-Rayet type stars     p. 163
  J. Moultaka, A. Eckart, R. Schödel, T. Viehmann and F. Najarro
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• Deep optical observations of the supernova remnants G 126.2+1.6, G 59.8+1.2 and G 54.4-0.3     p. 175
  P. Boumis, F. Mavromatakis, E. M. Xilouris, J. Alikakos, M. P. Redman and C. D. Goudis
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• Dust distribution in protoplanetary disks - Vertical settling and radial migration     p. 185
  L. Barrière-Fouchet, J.-F. Gonzalez, J. R. Murray, R. J. Humble and S. T. Maddison
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Stellar structure and evolution
• Two new ZZ Ceti pulsators from the HS and HE surveys     p. 195
  R. Silvotti, B. Voss, I. Bruni, D. Koester, D. Reimers, R. Napiwotzki and D. Homeier
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• On ion-ion correlation effects during stellar core collapse     p. 201
  A. Marek, H.-Th. Janka, R. Buras, M. Liebendörfer and M. Rampp
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• Properties of galactic B[e] supergiants - V. Two-dimensional radiative transfer model of RY Sct and its dusty disc     p. 211
  A. B. Men'shchikov and A. S. Miroshnichenko
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• Low-energy absorption towards the ultra-compact X-ray binary 4U 1850-087 located in the globular cluster NGC 6712     p. 223
  L. Sidoli, N. La Palombara, T. Oosterbroek and A. N. Parmar
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• Cygnus X-3 and the problem of the missing Wolf-Rayet X-ray binaries     p. 231
  D. Lommen, L. Yungelson, E. van den Heuvel, G. Nelemans and S. Portegies Zwart
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• The thermonuclear production of F by Wolf-Rayet stars revisited     p. 243
  A. Palacios, M. Arnould and G. Meynet
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• Structural parameters of the hot pulsating B subdwarf Feige 48 from asteroseismology     p. 251
  S. Charpinet, G. Fontaine, P. Brassard, M. Billères, E. M. Green and P. Chayer
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• Frequency ratio method for seismic modelling of  Doradus stars - II. The role of rotation     p. 271
  J. C. Suárez, A. Moya, S. Martín-Ruíz, P. J. Amado, A. Grigahcène and R. Garrido
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• Tidal torques, disc radius variations, and instabilities in dwarf novae and soft X-ray transients     p. 283
  J.-M. Hameury and J.-P. Lasota
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Erratum

• RXTE broadband X-ray spectra of intermediate polars and white dwarf mass estimates     p. 291
  V. Suleimanov, M. Revnivtsev and H. Ritter
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Stellar atmospheres
• Non-LTE modelling of the He I 10830 Å line in early-type main sequence stars     p. 293
  N. Przybilla
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• Chemical composition of evolved stars of high galactic latitude     p. 297
  Sunetra Giridhar and A. Arellano Ferro
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The Sun
• Large-scale photospheric dynamics below coronal holes     p. 309
  N. Meunier
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• Detailed comparison of downflows seen both in EIT 30.4 nm and Big Bear H movies     p. 319
  A. De Groof, C. Bastiaensen, D. A. N. Müller, D. Berghmans and S. Poedts
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Planets and planetary systems
• Photometry and models of selected main belt asteroids - II. 173 Ino, 376 Geometria, and 451 Patientia     p. 329
  T. Michalowski, M. Kaasalainen, A. Marciniak, P. Denchev, T. Kwiatkowski, A. Kryszczynska, R. Hirsch, F. P. Velichko, A. Erikson, Gy. M. Szabó and R. Kowalski
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• Extrasolar planets and brown dwarfs around A-F type stars - I. Performances of radial velocity measurements, first analyses of variations     p. 337
  F. Galland, A.-M. Lagrange, S. Udry, A. Chelli, F. Pepe, D. Queloz, J.-L. Beuzit and M. Mayor
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• Thermal infrared observations of the Hayabusa spacecraft target asteroid 25143 Itokawa     p. 347
  T. G. Müller, T. Sekiguchi, M. Kaasalainen, M. Abe and S. Hasegawa
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Instruments, observational techniques, and data processing
• Sub-pixel image registration with a maximum likelihood estimator - Application to the first adaptive optics observations of Arp 220 in the L band     p. 357
  D. Gratadour, L. M. Mugnier and D. Rouan
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