Astronomy & Astrophysics

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A&A Vol. 447 No. 2

	Astronomy and Astrophysics
	Vol. 447 No. 2 (February IV 2006)
Cover illustration: AGB stars with dust shells in the HR diagram (Ferrarotti, A. S., & Gail, H.-P., p. 563)

Letters

Assisted stellar suicide in V617 Sagittarii p. L1
J. E. Steiner, A. S. Oliveira, D. Cieslinski and T. V. Ricci
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Optical emission from GRB 050709: a short/hard GRB in a star-forming galaxy p. L5
S. Covino, D. Malesani, G. L. Israel, P. D'Avanzo, L. A. Antonelli, G. Chincarini, D. Fugazza, M. L. Conciatore, M. Della Valle, F. Fiore, D. Guetta, K. Hurley, D. Lazzati, L. Stella, G. Tagliaferri, M. Vietri, S. Campana, D. N. Burrows, V. D'Elia, P. Filliatre, N. Gehrels, P. Goldoni, A. Melandri, S. Mereghetti, I. F. Mirabel, A. Moretti, J. Nousek, P. T. O'Brien, L. J. Pellizza, R. Perna, S. Piranomonte, P. Romano and F. M. Zerbi
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Evidence supporting the kinematic interpretation of water maser proper motions p. L9
C. Goddi, L. Moscadelli, J. M. Torrelles, L. Uscanga and R. Cesaroni
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High brightness temperatures and circular polarisation in extra-galactic radio sources p. L13
J. G. Kirk and O. Tsang
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The periods of the intermediate polar RX J0153.3+7446 p. L17
A. J. Norton and J. D. Tanner
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VLT/UVES constraints on the carbon isotope ratio $^\mathsf$ C/ $^\mathsf$ C at z = 1.15 toward the quasar HE 0515-4414 p. L21
S. A. Levshakov, M. Centurión, P. Molaro and M. V. Kostina
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Cosmology (including clusters of galaxies)

Point source confusion in SZ cluster surveys p. 405
J. G. Bartlett and J.-B. Melin
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From Hubble diagrams to scale factors p. 413
T. Schücker and A. Tilquin
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A fast method for computing strong-lensing cross sections: application to merging clusters p. 419
C. Fedeli, M. Meneghetti, M. Bartelmann, K. Dolag and L. Moscardini
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Large scale correlations in galaxy clustering from the two degree field galaxy redshift survey p. 431
N. L. Vasilyev, Yu. V. Baryshev and F. Sylos Labini
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Extragalactic astronomy

NGC 7679: an anomalous, composite Seyfert 1 galaxy whose X-ray luminous AGN vanishes at optical wavelengths p. 441
L. M. Buson, M. Cappellari, E. M. Corsini, E. V. Held, J. Lim and A. Pizzella
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Bar instability in cosmological halos p. 453
A. Curir, P. Mazzei and G. Murante
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Large-scale magnetized outflows from the Virgo Cluster spiral NGC 4569 - A galactic wind in a ram pressure wind p. 465
K. T. Chyzy, M. Soida, D. J. Bomans, B. Vollmer, Ch. Balkowski, R. Beck and M. Urbanik
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The C star population of DDO 190 p. 473
P. Battinelli and S. Demers
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H I absorption in 3C 49 and 3C 268.3 - Probing the environment of compact steep spectrum and GHz peaked spectrum sources p. 481
A. Labiano, R. C. Vermeulen, P. D. Barthel, C. P. O'Dea, J. F. Gallimore, S. Baum and W. de Vries
Abstract | Full HTML | PDF file (454 KB) | PS file (860 KB) | References

Atomic hydrogen in the one-sided "compact double" radio galaxy 2050+364 p. 489
R. C. Vermeulen, A. Labiano, P. D. Barthel, S. A. Baum, W. H. de Vries and C. P. O'Dea
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Slow and fast components in the X-ray light curves of gamma-ray bursts p. 499
L. Vetere, E. Massaro, E. Costa, P. Soffitta and G. Ventura
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VLBI phase-reference observations of the gravitational lens JVAS B0218+357 p. 515
R. Mittal, R. Porcas, O. Wucknitz, A. Biggs and I. Browne
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Galactic structure, stellar clusters, and populations

Low frequency radio monitoring of Cygnus X-1 and Cygnus X-3 p. 525
M. Pandey, A. P. Rao, G. G. Pooley, P. Durouchoux, R. K. Manchanda and C. H. Ishwara-Chandra
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Molecular cloud shredding in the Galactic Bar p. 533
H. S. Liszt
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Interstellar and circumstellar matter

Broad band variability of SS433: accretion disk at work? p. 545
M. Revnivtsev, S. Fabrika, P. Abolmasov, K. Postnov, I. Bikmaev, R. Burenin, M. Pavlinsky, R. Sunyaev, I. Khamitov and N. Sakhibullin
Abstract | Full HTML | PDF file (139 KB) | PS file (70.3 KB) | References

Composition and quantities of dust produced by AGB-stars and returned to the interstellar medium p. 553
A. S. Ferrarotti and H.-P. Gail
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Tracing the base of protostellar wind(s) towards the high-mass star forming region AFGL 5142: VLA continuum and VLBA H $_\mathsf{2}$ O maser observations p. 577
C. Goddi and L. Moscadelli
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On the diffuse bands related to the C $\mathsf$ interstellar molecule p. 589
G. A. Galazutdinov, P. Gnacinski, Inwoo Han, Byeong-Cheol Lee, Kang-Min Kim and J. Krelowski
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The ratio of N(C $\mathsf}$ O) and A $\mathsf}$ in Chamaeleon I and III-B - Using 2MASS and SEST p. 597
J. Kainulainen, K. Lehtinen and J. Harju
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An unbiased search for the signatures of protostars in the $\rho$ Ophiuchi molecular cloud - II. Millimetre continuum observations p. 609
T. Stanke, M. D. Smith, R. Gredel and T. Khanzadyan
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Stellar structure and evolution

The early star generations: the dominant effect of rotation on the CNO yields p. 623
G. Meynet, S. Ekström and A. Maeder
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The s-process weak component: uncertainties due to convective overshooting p. 641
V. Costa, M. L. Pumo, A. Bonanno and R. A. Zappalà
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The role of rotation on Petersen diagrams. The $\mathsf{\Pi_\,(\Omega)}$ period ratios p. 649
J. C. Suárez, R. Garrido and M. J. Goupil
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Bispectrum speckle interferometry of the massive protostellar outflow source IRAS 23151+5912 p. 655
G. Weigelt, H. Beuther, K.-H. Hofmann, M. R. Meyer, Th. Preibisch, D. Schertl, M. D. Smith and E. T. Young
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The massive eclipsing LMC Wolf-Rayet binary BAT99-129 - I. Orbital parameters, hydrogen content and spectroscopic characteristics p. 667
C. Foellmi, A. F. J. Moffat and S. V. Marchenko
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Stellar atmospheres

Abundances of vanadium and bromine in 3 Centauri A - Additional odd-Z anomalies p. 681
C. R. Cowley and G. M. Wahlgren
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Elemental abundance analyses with DAO spectrograms - XXIX. The mercury-manganese stars 53 Tau, $\beta$ Tau, $\gamma$ Crv, and $\upsilon$ Her p. 685
S. J. Adelman, H. Caliskan, A. F. Gulliver and A. Teker
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Quantitative spectroscopic analysis of and distance to SN1999em p. 691
L. Dessart and D. J. Hillier
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Spectral energy distribution for GJ406 p. 709
Ya. V. Pavlenko, H. R. A. Jones, Yu. Lyubchik, J. Tennyson and D. J. Pinfield
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The Sun

Non-thermal broadening of coronal emission lines in the onset phase of solar flares and CMEs p. 719
H. R. M. Kay, S. A. Matthews, L. K. Harra and J. L. Culhane
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Inverse and normal coronal mass ejections: evolution up to 1 AU p. 727
E. Chané, B. Van der Holst, C. Jacobs, S. Poedts and D. Kimpe
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Hemispheric sunspot numbers R_n and R_s from 1945-2004: catalogue and N-S asymmetry analysis for solar cycles 18-23 p. 735
M. Temmer, J. Rybák, P. Bendík, A. Veronig, F. Vogler, W. Otruba, W. Pötzi and A. Hanslmeier
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Planets and planetary systems

Thermal emission of spherical spinning ring particles - The standard model p. 745
C. Ferrari and C. Leyrat
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Atomic, molecular, and nuclear data

Benchmarking atomic data for astrophysics: $\ion{xxiv}$ p. 761
G. Del Zanna
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Instruments, observational techniques, and data processing

Calibration of the PRONAOS/SPM submillimeter photometer p. 769
F. Pajot, B. Stepnik, J.-M. Lamarre, J.-P. Bernard, X. Dupac, M. Giard, G. Lagache, B. Leriche, C. Meny, G. Recouvreur, J.-C. Renault, C. Rioux, I. Ristorcelli, G. Serra and J.-P. Torre
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Online catalogs and data

Erratum

A catalog of bright calibrator stars for 200-m baseline near-infrared stellar interferometry p. 783
A. Mérand, P. Bordé and V. Coudé du Foresto
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