Astronomy and Astrophysics
	Vol. 448 No. 3 (March IV 2006)
Cover illustration: Initial Mass Functions of six young star clusters (Massi, F., et al., p. 1019)

Letters


• Identification of four RXTE Slew Survey sources with nearby luminous active galactic nuclei     p. L49
  M. Revnivtsev, S. Sazonov, E. Churazov and S. Trudolyubov
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• Detection of water ice grains after the DEEP IMPACT onto Comet 9P/Tempel 1     p. L53
  R. Schulz, A. Owens, P. M. Rodriguez-Pascual, D. Lumb, C. Erd and J. A. Stüwe
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• Discovery of two new methanol masers in NGC 7538 - Locating of massive protostars     p. L57
  M. R. Pestalozzi, V. Minier, F. Motte and J. E. Conway
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Astrophysical processes
• Analytical investigation of the two-dimensional cosmic ray Fokker-Planck equation     p. 809
  A. Shalchi
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• The iron K-shell features of MXB 1728-34 from a simultaneous Chandra-RXTE observation     p. 817
  A. D'Aí, T. Di Salvo, R. Iaria, M. Méndez, L. Burderi, G. Lavagetto, W. H. G. Lewin, N. R. Robba, L. Stella and M. van der Klis
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Cosmology (including clusters of galaxies)
• Quasars in the MAMBO blank field survey     p. 823
  H. Voss, F. Bertoldi, C. Carilli, F. N. Owen, D. Lutz, M. Holdaway, M. Ledlow and K. M. Menten
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• Prospects for dark energy evolution: a frequentist multi-probe approach     p. 831
  Ch. Yèche, A. Ealet, A. Réfrégier, C. Tao, A. Tilquin, J.-M. Virey and D. Yvon
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Extragalactic astronomy
• Relativistic cross sections of mass stripping and tidal disruption of a star by a super-massive rotating black hole     p. 843
  P. B. Ivanov and M. A. Chernyakova
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• Multifrequency VLA radio observations of the X-ray cavity cluster of galaxies RBS797: evidence of differently oriented jets     p. 853
  M. Gitti, L. Feretti and S. Schindler
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• Log-parabolic spectra and particle acceleration in blazars - III. SSC emission in the TeV band from Mkn 501     p. 861
  E. Massaro, A. Tramacere, M. Perri, P. Giommi and G. Tosti
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• An INTEGRAL hard X-ray survey of the Large Magellanic Cloud     p. 873
  D. Götz, S. Mereghetti, D. Merlini, L. Sidoli and T. Belloni
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• Dynamical mass estimates for two luminous star clusters in galactic merger remnants     p. 881
  N. Bastian, R. P. Saglia, P. Goudfrooij, M. Kissler-Patig, C. Maraston, F. Schweizer and M. Zoccali
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• Spectrophotometric properties of galaxies at intermediate redshifts (z ~ 0.2-1.0) - I. Sample description, photometric properties and spectral measurements     p. 893
  F. Lamareille, T. Contini, J.-F. Le Borgne, J. Brinchmann, S. Charlot and J. Richard
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• Spectrophotometric properties of galaxies at intermediate redshifts (z ~ 0.2-1.0) - II. The Luminosity - Metallicity relation     p. 907
  F. Lamareille, T. Contini, J. Brinchmann, J.-F. Le Borgne, S. Charlot and J. Richard
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• The supermassive black hole in Centaurus A: a benchmark for gas kinematical measurements     p. 921
  A. Marconi, G. Pastorini, F. Pacini, D. J. Axon, A. Capetti, D. Macchetto, A. M. Koekemoer and E. J. Schreier
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• The chemical composition of metal-poor emission-line galaxies in the Data Release 3 of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey     p. 955
  Y. I. Izotov, G. Stasinska, G. Meynet, N. G. Guseva and T. X. Thuan
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• The weak INTEGRAL bursts GRB 040223 and GRB 040624: an emerging population of dark afterglows     p. 971
  P. Filliatre, S. Covino, P. D'Avanzo, A. De Luca, D. Götz, S. McGlynn, S. McBreen, D. Fugazza, A. Antonelli, S. Campana, G. Chincarini, A. Cucchiara, M. Della Valle, S. Foley, P. Goldoni, L. Hanlon, G. Israel, B. McBreen, S. Mereghetti, L. Stella and G. Tagliaferri
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• Dwarf elliptical galaxies in Centaurus A group: stellar populations in AM 1339-445 and AM 1343-452     p. 983
  M. Rejkuba, G. S. Da Costa, H. Jerjen, M. Zoccali and B. Binggeli
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Galactic structure, stellar clusters, and populations
• Radial velocity measurements of B stars in the Scorpius-Centaurus association     p. 1001
  E. Jilinski, S. Daflon, K. Cunha and R. de la Reza
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• The IMF and star formation history of the stellar clusters in the Vela D cloud     p. 1007
  F. Massi, L. Testi and L. Vanzi
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• Spectral evolution of star clusters in the Large Magellanic Cloud - I. Blue concentrated clusters in the age range 40-300 Myr     p. 1023
  J. F. C. Santos Jr., J. J. Clariá, A. V. Ahumada, E. Bica, A. E. Piatti and M. C. Parisi
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• The transition between star clusters and dwarf galaxies - On the existence of a mass-radius relation for star clusters of masses >  M: are these objects formed in mergers of stellar systems?     p. 1031
  M. Kissler-Patig, A. Jordán and N. Bastian
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Interstellar and circumstellar matter
• The extremely high-velocity molecular outflow in IRAS 20126 4104     p. 1037
  M. Lebrón, H. Beuther, P. Schilke and Th. Stanke
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• Neutral carbon and CO emission in the core and the halo of dark cloud Barnard 5     p. 1043
  F. Bensch
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• Hydrodynamic simulations of the accretion disk in U Geminorum - The occurrence of a two-armed spiral structure during outburst     p. 1061
  M. Klingler
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• Photopolarimetric activity and circumstellar environment of the young binary system DF Tau     p. 1075
  D. Shakhovskoj, V. Grinin, A. Rostopchina, D. Schertl, K.-H. Hofmann, G. Weigelt, Yu. Balega, O. Kiyaeva and S. Melnikov
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• Influence of Alfvén waves on thermal instability in the interstellar medium     p. 1083
  P. Hennebelle and T. Passot
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• Detection of an optical filament in the Monogem Ring     p. 1095
  R. Weinberger, S. Temporin and B. Stecklum
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Stellar structure and evolution
• Optical identification of IGR J19140+0951     p. 1101
  J. J. M. in 't Zand, P. G. Jonker, G. Nelemans, D. Steeghs and K. O'Brien
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• The possible orbital period of the nova V1493 Aquilae     p. 1107
  A. Dobrotka, M. Friedjung, A. Retter, L. Hric and R. Novak
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• Variability and periodicity of field M dwarfs revealed by multichannel monitoring     p. 1111
  B. Rockenfeller, C. A. L. Bailer-Jones and R. Mundt
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• Bimodal spectral variability of Cygnus X-1 in an intermediate state     p. 1125
  J. Malzac, P. O. Petrucci, E. Jourdain, M. Cadolle Bel, P. Sizun, G. Pooley, C. Cabanac, S. Chaty, T. Belloni, J. Rodriguez, J. P. Roques, P. Durouchoux, A. Goldwurm and P. Laurent
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• Frequency dependence of orthogonal polarisation modes in pulsars     p. 1139
  J. M. Smits, B. W. Stappers, R. T. Edwards, J. Kuijpers and R. Ramachandran
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Stellar atmospheres
• Disentangling telluric lines in stellar spectra     p. 1149
  P. Hadrava
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• Stellar model atmospheres with magnetic line blanketing - II. Introduction of polarized radiative transfer     p. 1153
  S. A. Khan and D. V. Shulyak
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• Search for radial velocity and magnetic field pulsational variations in the roAp star Equulei     p. 1165
  I. Savanov, S. Hubrig, G. Mathys, A. Ritter and D. W. Kurtz
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The Sun
• SOHO/CDS observations of waves above the network     p. 1169
  P. Gömöry, J. Rybák, A. Kucera, W. Curdt and H. Wöhl
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• Stability of an MHD shear flow with a piecewise linear velocity profile     p. 1177
  M. S. Ruderman and L. Brevdo
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Planets and planetary systems
• The Pecina-Ceplecha functional as a tool to evaluate physical parameters of fireball bodies from observational data     p. 1185
  V. V. Kalenichenko
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• The quasi-Hilda subgroup of ecliptic comets - an update     p. 1191
  I. Toth
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Celestial mechanics and astrometry
• A new data analysis technique in the study of mutual event lightcurves     p. 1197
  M. E. Ramírez, Y. Jiménez, M. J. González, M. Berrocoso and M. Sánchez-Francisco
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Atomic, molecular, and nuclear data
• Transition probabilities and lifetimes in neutral and singly ionized osmium and the Solar osmium abundance     p. 1207
  P. Quinet, P. Palmeri, É. Biémont, A. Jorissen, S. Van Eck, S. Svanberg, H. L. Xu and B. Plez
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Instruments, observational techniques, and data processing
• Reduction of boundary effects in multiple image deconvolution with an application to LBT LINC-NIRVANA     p. 1217
  B. Anconelli, M. Bertero, P. Boccacci, M. Carbillet and H. Lanteri
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• Wavefront outer scale deduced from interferometric dispersed fringes     p. 1225
  J. Maire, A. Ziad, J. Borgnino, D. Mourard, F. Martin, S. Jankov, D. Bonneau and F. Patru
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Online catalogs and data
• The PM2000 Bordeaux proper motion catalogue ( )     p. 1235
  C. Ducourant, J. F. Le Campion, M. Rapaport, J. I. B. Camargo, C. Soubiran, J. P. Périe, R. Teixeira, G. Daigne, A. Triaud, Y. Réquième, A. Fresneau and J. Colin
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• An XMM-Newton survey of the Local Group galaxy M 33 - variability of the detected sources     p. 1247
  Z. Misanovic, W. Pietsch, F. Haberl, M. Ehle, D. Hatzidimitriou and G. Trinchieri
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