Astronomy and Astrophysics
	Vol. 448 No. 1 (March II 2006)
Cover illustration: The polarized fraction of the Galactic radio emission at 1.4 GHz (Wolleben, M., et al., p. 422)

Letters


• The origin of GEMS in IDPs as deduced from microstructural evolution of amorphous silicates with annealing     p. L1
  C. Davoisne, Z. Djouadi, H. Leroux, L. d'Hendecourt, A. Jones and D. Deboffle
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Astrophysical processes
• Multi-spot ignition in type Ia supernova models     p. 1
  F. K. Röpke, W. Hillebrandt, J. C. Niemeyer and S. E. Woosley
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Cosmology (including clusters of galaxies)
• Precessing jets from a moving source and bright X-ray filaments in galaxy clusters     p. 15
  M. Rodríguez-Martínez, P. F. Velázquez, L. Binette and A. C. Raga
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• Big-bang nucleosynthesis in a Brans-Dicke cosmology with a varying term related to WMAP     p. 23
  R. Nakamura, M. Hashimoto, S. Gamow and K. Arai
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Extragalactic astronomy
• Molecular gas in the galaxy cluster Abell 262 - CO observations of UGC 1347 and other galaxies of the cluster     p. 29
  T. Bertram, A. Eckart, M. Krips, J. G. Staguhn and W. Hackenberg
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• The multi-phase gaseous halos of star forming late-type galaxies - I. XMM-Newton observations of the hot ionized medium     p. 43
  R. Tüllmann, W. Pietsch, J. Rossa, D. Breitschwerdt and R.-J. Dettmar
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• AGB stars in the Magellanic Clouds - II. The rate of star formation across the LMC     p. 77
  M.-R. L. Cioni, L. Girardi, P. Marigo and H. J. Habing
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• A deep XMM-Newton serendipitous survey of a middle-latitude area     p. 93
  G. Novara, N. La Palombara, N. Carangelo, A. De Luca, P. A. Caraveo, R. P. Mignani and G. F. Bignami
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• The evolution of the luminosity functions in the FORS deep field from low to high redshift - II. The red bands     p. 101
  A. Gabasch, U. Hopp, G. Feulner, R. Bender, S. Seitz, R. P. Saglia, J. Snigula, N. Drory, I. Appenzeller, J. Heidt, D. Mehlert, S. Noll, A. Böhm, K. Jäger and B. Ziegler
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• On the neutral gas distribution and kinematics in the dwarf irregular galaxy IC 1613     p. 123
  S. Silich, T. Lozinskaya, A. Moiseev, N. Podorvanuk, M. Rosado, J. Borissova and M. Valdez-Gutierrez
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• Radio polarization and sub-millimeter observations of the Sombrero galaxy (NGC 4594) - Large-scale magnetic field configuration and dust emission     p. 133
  M. Krause, R. Wielebinski and M. Dumke
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• B and I-band optical micro-variability observations of the BL Lac objects S5 2007+777 and 3C 371     p. 143
  E. M. Xilouris, I. E. Papadakis, P. Boumis, A. Dapergolas, J. Alikakos, J. Papamastorakis, N. Smith and C. D. Goudis
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• Wide-field kinematics of globular clusters in the Leo I group     p. 155
  G. Bergond, S. E. Zepf, A. J. Romanowsky, R. M. Sharples and K. L. Rhode
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• [ ] profile substructure in radio-quiet quasars     p. 165
  C. Leipski and N. Bennert
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Galactic structure, stellar clusters, and populations
• Probable member stars of the gravitational theory-testing globular clusters AM 1, Pal 3 and Pal 14     p. 171
  M. Hilker
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• The mid- and far-infrared colours of AGB and post-AGB stars     p. 181
  M. A. T. Groenewegen
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• Exploring the lower mass function in the young open cluster IC 4665     p. 189
  W. J. de Wit, J. Bouvier, F. Palla, J.-C. Cuillandre, D. J. James, T. R. Kendall, N. Lodieu, M. J. McCaughrean, E. Moraux, S. Randich and L. Testi
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Interstellar and circumstellar matter
• New insights on the complex planetary nebula Hen 2-113     p. 203
  E. Lagadec, O. Chesneau, M. Matsuura, O. De Marco, J. A. de Freitas Pacheco, A. A. Zijlstra, A. Acker, G. C. Clayton and B. Lopez
  Abstract | Full HTML | PDF file (101 KB) | PS file (8.06 MB) | References



• A new large high latitude cone-like far-IR nebula     p. 213
  B. Aryal and R. Weinberger
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• A search for fine structure inside high resolution profiles of weak diffuse interstellar bands     p. 221
  K. Slyk, G. A. Galazutdinov, F. A. Musaev, A. V. Bondar, M. R. Schmidt and J. Krelowski
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• Emission lines from rotating proto-stellar jets with variable velocity profiles - I. Three-dimensional numerical simulation of the non-magnetic case     p. 231
  A. H. Cerqueira, P. F. Velázquez, A. C. Raga, M. J. Vasconcelos and F. De Colle
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• A new look into the Helios dust experiment data: presence of interstellar dust inside the Earth's orbit     p. 243
  N. Altobelli, E. Grün and M. Landgraf
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• Comparative chemistry of diffuse clouds - V. Ammonia and formaldehyde     p. 253
  H. S. Liszt, R. Lucas and J. Pety
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Stellar structure and evolution
• IGR J17252-3616: an accreting pulsar observed by INTEGRAL and XMM-Newton     p. 261
  J. A. Zurita Heras, G. De Cesare, R. Walter, A. Bodaghee, G. Bélanger, T. J.-L. Courvoisier, S. E. Shaw and J. B. Stephen
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• Near-infrared speckle interferometry and radiative transfer modelling of the carbon star LP Andromedae     p. 271
  A. B. Men'shchikov, Y. Y. Balega, M. Berger, T. Driebe, K.-H. Hofmann, A. F. Maximov, D. Schertl, V. I. Shenavrin and G. Weigelt
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• Separation of composite spectra: the spectroscopic detection of an eclipsing binary star     p. 283
  J. F. González and H. Levato
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• X-ray emission of brown dwarfs: towards constraining the dependence on age, luminosity, and temperature     p. 293
  B. Stelzer, G. Micela, E. Flaccomio, R. Neuhäuser and R. Jayawardhana
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• GCIRS34W: an irregular variable in the Galactic Centre     p. 305
  S. Trippe, F. Martins, T. Ott, T. Paumard, R. Abuter, F. Eisenhauer, S. Gillessen, R. Genzel, A. Eckart and R. Schödel
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• Subaru optical observations of the two middle-aged pulsars PSR B0656+14 and Geminga     p. 313
  Y. A. Shibanov, S. V. Zharikov, V. N. Komarova, N. Kawai, Y. Urata, A. B. Koptsevich, V. V. Sokolov, S. Shibata and N. Shibazaki
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• Population synthesis as a probe of neutron star thermal evolution     p. 327
  S. Popov, H. Grigorian, R. Turolla and D. Blaschke
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• INTEGRAL high energy behaviour of 4U 1812-12     p. 335
  A. Tarana, A. Bazzano, P. Ubertini, M. Cocchi, D. Götz, F. Capitanio, A. J. Bird and M. Fiocchi
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Stellar atmospheres
• High precision determination of the atmospheric parameters and abundances of the COROT main targets     p. 341
  M. Gillon and P. Magain
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• Detailed spectroscopic analysis of the Trapezium cluster stars inside the Orion nebula - Rotational velocities, stellar parameters, and oxygen abundances     p. 351
  S. Simón-Díaz, A. Herrero, C. Esteban and F. Najarro
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The Sun
• Radiative transfer in cylindrical threads with incident radiation - III. Hydrogen spectrum     p. 367
  P. Gouttebroze
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• Resonant absorption in dissipative flux tubes     p. 375
  H. Safari, S. Nasiri, K. Karami and Y. Sobouti
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Planets and planetary systems
• The transmission spectrum of Earth-size transiting planets     p. 379
  D. Ehrenreich, G. Tinetti, A. Lecavelier des Etangs, A. Vidal-Madjar and F. Selsis
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• Applicability of the discrete-dipole approximation to light-scattering simulations of large cosmic dust aggregates     p. 395
  M. Köhler, H. Kimura and I. Mann
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Celestial mechanics and astrometry
• Non-gravitational motion of the Jupiter-family comet 81P/Wild 2 - I. The dynamical evolution     p. 401
  M. Królikowska and S. Szutowicz
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Online catalogs and data
• An absolutely calibrated survey of polarized emission from the northern sky at 1.4 GHz - Observations and data reduction     p. 411
  M. Wolleben, T. L. Landecker, W. Reich and R. Wielebinski
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