Astronomy and Astrophysics
	Vol. 450 No. 2 (May I 2006)
Cover illustration: A planetary swarm forming in a protostellar disc (Cresswell, P. & Nelson, R. P., p. 851)

Astrophysical processes
• Compact strange stars with a medium dependence in gluons at finite temperature     p. 431
  M. Bagchi, S. Ray, M. Dey and J. Dey
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• Nonaxisymmetric stability in the shearing sheet approximation     p. 437
  A. Brandenburg and B. Dintrans
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• Thermodynamics and dynamics of a 1-D gravitational system     p. 445
  P. Valageas
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Cosmology (including clusters of galaxies)
• COSMOGRAIL: the COSmological MOnitoring of GRAvItational Lenses - IV. Models of prospective time-delay lenses     p. 461
  P. Saha, F. Courbin, D. Sluse, S. Dye and G. Meylan
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Extragalactic astronomy
• On the interpretation of spectral-energy correlations in long gamma-ray bursts     p. 471
  L. Nava, G. Ghisellini, G. Ghirlanda, F. Tavecchio and C. Firmani
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• A new analysis of the nucleus of NGC 1068 with MIDI observations     p. 483
  A. Poncelet, G. Perrin and H. Sol
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• Quasars near the line of sight towards Q 0302-003 and the transverse proximity effect     p. 495
  G. Worseck and L. Wisotzki
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Galactic structure, stellar clusters, and populations
• Low and intermediate mass star yields - II. The evolution of nitrogen abundances     p. 509
  M. Gavilán, M. Mollá and J. F. Buell
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• Na-O anticorrelation and HB - I. The Na-O anticorrelation in NGC 2808     p. 523
  E. Carretta, A. Bragaglia, R. G. Gratton, F. Leone, A. Recio-Blanco and S. Lucatello
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• The flare activity of Sagittarius A* - New coordinated mm to X-ray observations     p. 535
  A. Eckart, F. K. Baganoff, R. Schödel, M. Morris, R. Genzel, G. C. Bower, D. Marrone, J. M. Moran, T. Viehmann, M. W. Bautz, W. N. Brandt, G. P. Garmire, T. Ott, S. Trippe, G. R. Ricker, C. Straubmeier, D. A. Roberts, F. Yusef-Zadeh, J. H. Zhao and R. Rao
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• Element abundances of unevolved stars in the open cluster M 67     p. 557
  S. Randich, P. Sestito, F. Primas, R. Pallavicini and L. Pasquini
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Interstellar and circumstellar matter
• Ammonia in infrared dark clouds     p. 569
  T. Pillai, F. Wyrowski, S. J. Carey and K. M. Menten
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• A detailed observation of a LMC supernova remnant DEM L241 with XMM-Newton     p. 585
  A. Bamba, M. Ueno, H. Nakajima, K. Mori and K. Koyama
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• Analysis of the circumstellar environment of the B[ e] star HD 45677 (FS Canis Majoris)     p. 593
  G. Muratorio, C. Rossi and M. Friedjung
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• Ammonia cores in high mass star formation regions     p. 607
  Y. Wu, Q. Zhang, W. Yu, M. Miller, R. Mao, K. Sun and Y. Wang
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• INTEGRAL observations of the Crab pulsar     p. 617
  T. Mineo, C. Ferrigno, L. Foschini, A. Segreto, G. Cusumano, G. Malaguti, G. Di Cocco and C. Labanti
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• Radio continuum and molecular line observations of four bright-rimmed clouds     p. 625
  J. S. Urquhart, M. A. Thompson, L. K. Morgan and G. J. White
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• Hydrodynamical simulations of the jet in the symbiotic star MWC 560 - II. Simulations beyond density balance     p. 645
  M. Stute
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Stellar structure and evolution
• The ignition of thermonuclear flames in type Ia supernovae     p. 655
  L. Iapichino, M. Brüggen, W. Hillebrandt and J. C. Niemeyer
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• Full polarization study of SiO masers at 86 GHz     p. 667
  F. Herpin, A. Baudry, C. Thum, D. Morris and H. Wiesemeyer
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• Tertiary companions to close spectroscopic binaries     p. 681
  A. Tokovinin, S. Thomas, M. Sterzik and S. Udry
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• Asteroseismology of the visual binary 70 Ophiuchi     p. 695
  F. Carrier and P. Eggenberger
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• Post-AGB stars as testbeds of nucleosynthesis in AGB stars     p. 701
  G. Stasinska, R. Szczerba, M. Schmidt and N. Siódmiak
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• The frequency ratio method and the new multiperiodic  Doradus star HD 218427     p. 715
  E. Rodríguez, P. J. Amado, J. C. Suárez, A. Moya, M. A. Dupret, E. Poretti, A. Grigahcène, V. Costa and M. J. López-González
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• VLT spectroscopy and non-LTE modeling of the C/O-dominated accretion disks in two ultracompact X-ray binaries     p. 725
  K. Werner, T. Nagel, T. Rauch, N. J. Hammer and S. Dreizler
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• Effective temperature scale and bolometric corrections from 2MASS photometry     p. 735
  E. Masana, C. Jordi and I. Ribas
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• Phase transitions in rotating neutron stars cores: back bending, stability, corequakes, and pulsar timing     p. 747
  J. L. Zdunik, M. Bejger, P. Haensel and E. Gourgoulhon
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• XMM-Newton observations of the Soft Gamma Ray Repeater SGR 1627-41 in a low luminosity state     p. 759
  S. Mereghetti, P. Esposito, A. Tiengo, R. Turolla, S. Zane, L. Stella, G. L. Israel, M. Feroci and A. Treves
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• Evolutionary state of magnetic chemically peculiar stars     p. 763
  O. Kochukhov and S. Bagnulo
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Stellar atmospheres
• Searching for links between magnetic fields and stellar evolution - I. A survey of magnetic fields in open cluster A- and B-type stars with FORS1     p. 777
  S. Bagnulo, J. D. Landstreet, E. Mason, V. Andretta, J. Silaj and G. A. Wade
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The Sun
• The effect of the solar wind on CME triggering by magnetic foot point shearing     p. 793
  C. Jacobs, S. Poedts and B. van der Holst
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• The emergence of magnetic flux through a partially ionised solar atmosphere     p. 805
  J. E. Leake and T. D. Arber
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Planets and planetary systems
• The meteoroid environment of comet 9P/Tempel 1 and the Deep Impact spacecraft     p. 819
  J. Vaubaillon, F. Colas and L. Jorda
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• High resolution spectroscopy of stars with transiting planets - The cases of OGLE-TR-10, 56, 111, 113, and TrES-1     p. 825
  N. C. Santos, F. Pont, C. Melo, G. Israelian, F. Bouchy, M. Mayor, C. Moutou, D. Queloz, S. Udry and T. Guillot
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• On the evolution of multiple protoplanets embedded in a protostellar disc     p. 833
  P. Cresswell and R. P. Nelson
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Celestial mechanics and astrometry
• High precision methods for locating the celestial intermediate pole and origin     p. 855
  N. Capitaine and P. T. Wallace
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Online catalogs and data
• The Araucaria project. Bright variable stars in NGC 6822 from a wide-field imaging survey     p. 873
  R. E. Mennickent, W. Gieren, I. Soszynski and G. Pietrzynski
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