Astronomy and Astrophysics
	Vol. 450 No. 3 (May II 2006)
Cover illustration: Galaxy group infalling into the Coma Cluster (X-ray + radio) (Feretti, L., & Neumann, D. M., p. L22)

Letters


• XMM-Newton observations of the Coma cluster relic 1253+275     p. L21
  L. Feretti and D. M. Neumann
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• Apollo asteroid 2005 UD: split nucleus of (3200) Phaethon?     p. L25
  K. Ohtsuka, T. Sekiguchi, D. Kinoshita, J.-I. Watanabe, T. Ito, H. Arakida and T. Kasuga
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Astrophysical processes
• Resolution requirements for simulating gravitational fragmentation using SPH     p. 881
  D. A. Hubber, S. P. Goodwin and A. P. Whitworth
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• The role of kink instability in Poynting-flux dominated jets     p. 887
  D. Giannios and H. C. Spruit
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Cosmology (including clusters of galaxies)
• Number counts in homogeneous and inhomogeneous dark energy models     p. 899
  N. J. Nunes, A. C. da Silva and N. Aghanim
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• The near-infrared luminosity function of cluster galaxies beyond redshift one     p. 909
  V. Strazzullo, P. Rosati, S. A. Stanford, C. Lidman, M. Nonino, R. Demarco, P. E. Eisenhardt, S. Ettori, V. Mainieri and S. Toft
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Extragalactic astronomy
• PG 0844+349 revisited - is there any outflow?     p. 925
  W. Brinkmann, T. Wang, D. Grupe and C. Raeth
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• Extragalactic H O masers and X-ray absorbing column densities     p. 933
  J. S. Zhang, C. Henkel, M. Kadler, L. J. Greenhill, N. Nagar, A. S. Wilson and J. A. Braatz
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• FIRST-based survey of compact steep spectrum sources - IV. Multifrequency VLBA observations of very compact objects     p. 945
  M. Kunert-Bajraszewska, A. Marecki and P. Thomasson
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• VLBA images of high frequency peakers     p. 959
  M. Orienti, D. Dallacasa, S. Tinti and C. Stanghellini
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• Looking at quasars through galaxies     p. 971
  L. Östman, A. Goobar and E. Mörtsell
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Galactic structure, stellar clusters, and populations
• Surface-brightness fluctuations in stellar populations - IAC-star models for the optical and near-IR wavelengths     p. 979
  A. Marín-Franch and A. Aparicio
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• Deep X-ray survey of the young open cluster NGC 2516 with XMM-Newton     p. 993
  I. Pillitteri, G. Micela, F. Damiani and S. Sciortino
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• Roche lobe shapes for testing MOND-like modified gravities     p. 1005
  H. Zhao and L. Tian
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• The sky distribution of positronium annihilation continuum emission measured with SPI/INTEGRAL     p. 1013
  G. Weidenspointner, C. R. Shrader, J. Knödlseder, P. Jean, V. Lonjou, N. Guessoum, R. Diehl, W. Gillard, M. J. Harris, G. K. Skinner, P. von Ballmoos, G. Vedrenne, J.-P. Roques, S. Schanne, P. Sizun, B. J. Teegarden, V. Schönfelder and C. Winkler
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Interstellar and circumstellar matter
• Microlensing of circumstellar envelopes - III. Line profiles from stellar winds in homologous expansion     p. 1023
  M. A. Hendry, R. Ignace and H. M. Bryce
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• Are Ti-producing supernovae exceptional?     p. 1037
  L.-S. The, D. D. Clayton, R. Diehl, D. H. Hartmann, A. F. Iyudin, M. D. Leising, B. S. Meyer, Y. Motizuki and V. Schönfelder
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• Near-infrared observations of water-ice in OH/IR stars     p. 1051
  K. Justtanont, G. Olofsson, C. Dijkstra and A. W. Meyer
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Stellar structure and evolution
• Discovery of seven ZZ Ceti stars using a new photometric selection method     p. 1061
  B. Voss, D. Koester, R. Østensen, S. O. Kepler, R. Napiwotzki, D. Homeier and D. Reimers
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• Cooling of a rotating strange star in the color superconducting phase with a crust     p. 1071
  Y. W. Yu and X. P. Zheng
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• Stable magnetic fields in stellar interiors     p. 1077
  J. Braithwaite and Å. Nordlund
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• Evolution of the magnetic field in magnetars     p. 1097
  J. Braithwaite and H. C. Spruit
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• Axisymmetric simulations of magneto-rotational core collapse: dynamics and gravitational wave signal     p. 1107
  M. Obergaulinger, M. A. Aloy and E. Müller
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• Rotational periods of T Tauri stars in Taurus-Auriga, south of Taurus-Auriga, and in MBM12     p. 1135
  C. Broeg, V. Joergens, M. Fernández, D. Husar, T. Hearty, M. Ammler and R. Neuhäuser
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• Time-resolved spectroscopy of the bright sdBV Balloon 090100001 - I. Observations and frequency analysis     p. 1149
  J. H. Telting and R. H. Østensen
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• Recovery of the global magnetic field configuration of 78 Virginis from Stokes IQUV line profiles     p. 1157
  V. R. Khalack and G. A. Wade
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Stellar atmospheres
• Lithium abundances and rotational behavior for bright giant stars     p. 1173
  A. Lèbre, P. de Laverny, J. D. do Nascimento Jr. and J. R. De Medeiros
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The Sun
• Multi-wavelength study of a high velocity event near a sunspot     p. 1181
  Chia-Hsien Lin, D. Banerjee, E. O'Shea and J. G. Doyle
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• Oscillations in a solar filament: first observation of long periods in the HeI 584.33 Å line, modelling and diagnostic     p. 1189
  G. Pouget, K. Bocchialini and J. Solomon
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• Magnetic flux in the inter-network quiet Sun from comparison with numerical simulations     p. 1199
  J. Sánchez Almeida
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Planets and planetary systems
• RODEO: a new method for planet-disk interaction     p. 1203
  S.-J. Paardekooper and G. Mellema
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• Birth and fate of hot-Neptune planets     p. 1221
  I. Baraffe, Y. Alibert, G. Chabrier and W. Benz
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• Equations for the analysis of the light curves of extra-solar planetary transits     p. 1231
  A. Giménez
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• Exploring the surface properties of transneptunian objects and Centaurs with polarimetric FORS1/VLT observations     p. 1239
  S. Bagnulo, H. Boehnhardt, K. Muinonen, L. Kolokolova, I. Belskaya and M. A. Barucci
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Atomic, molecular, and nuclear data
• Electron impact excitation of Fe XVI: radiative and excitation rates     p. 1249
  K. M. Aggarwal and F. P. Keenan
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Instruments, observational techniques, and data processing
• Integrated optics for astronomical interferometry - VI. Coupling the light of the VLTI in K band     p. 1259
  J.-B. LeBouquin, P. Labeye, F. Malbet, L. Jocou, F. Zabihian, K. Rousselet-Perraut, J.-P. Berger, A. Delboulbé, P. Kern, A. Glindemann and M. Schöeller
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• Modal filtering for nulling interferometry - First single-mode conductive waveguides in the mid-infrared     p. 1265
  L. Labadie, P. Labeye, P. Kern, I. Schanen, B. Arezki and J.-E. Broquin
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