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A&A Vol. 453 No. 1

	Astronomy and Astrophysics
	Vol. 453 No. 1 (July I 2006)
Cover illustration: Neutral gas and star formation tracers in M 31 spiral arms (Rodriguez-Fernandez, N. J., et al., p. 80

Letters

The first brown dwarf with a disk in Chamaeleon II p. L1
J. M. Alcalá, L. Spezzi, A. Frasca, E. Covino, A. Porras, B. Merín and P. Persi
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Coma revealed as an extended hard X-rays source by INTEGRAL IBIS/ISGRI p. L5
M. Renaud, G. Bélanger, J. Paul, F. Lebrun and R. Terrier
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Dynamical evidence of the age-metallicity relation in the Milky Way disk p. L9
H. J. Rocha-Pinto, R. H. O. Rangel, G. F. Porto de Mello, G. A. Bragança and W. J. Maciel
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Variable iron-line emission near the black hole of Markarian 766 p. L13
L. Miller, T. J. Turner, J. N. Reeves, I. M. George, D. Porquet, K. Nandra and M. Dovciak
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Astrophysical processes

Influences of the magnetic coupling process on the spectrum of a disk covered by the corona p. 1
R.-Y. Ma, D.-X. Wang and X.-Q. Zuo
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Slow evolution of elliptical galaxies induced by dynamical friction - II. Non-adiabatic effects p. 9
S. E. Arena, G. Bertin, T. Liseikina and F. Pegoraro
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Cosmology (including clusters of galaxies)

Dark matter density profiles: a comparison of nonextensive theory with N-body simulations p. 21
T. Kronberger, M. P. Leubner and E. van Kampen
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Extragalactic astronomy

The host galaxy/AGN connection in nearby early-type galaxies - A new view of the origin of the radio-quiet/radio-loud dichotomy? p. 27
A. Capetti and B. Balmaverde
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The origin of rR $\mathsf$ ring structures in barred galaxies p. 39
M. Romero-Gómez, J. J. Masdemont, E. Athanassoula and C. García-Gómez
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Stochastic particle acceleration and synchrotron self-Compton radiation in TeV blazars p. 47
K. Katarzynski, G. Ghisellini, A. Mastichiadis, F. Tavecchio and L. Maraschi
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The H $\mathsf{\alpha}$ Galaxy Survey - III. Constraints on supernova progenitors from spatial correlations with H $\mathsf{\alpha}$ emission p. 57
P. A. James and J. P. Anderson
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Detailed chemical evolution of Carina and Sagittarius dwarf spheroidal galaxies p. 67
G. A. Lanfranchi, F. Matteucci and G. Cescutti
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[CII] emission and star formation in the spiral arms of M 31 p. 77
N. J. Rodriguez-Fernandez, J. Braine, N. Brouillet and F. Combes
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Galactic structure, stellar clusters, and populations

GMRT observations of the field of INTEGRAL X-ray sources. II p. 83
M. Pandey, A. P. Rao, R. Manchanda, P. Durouchoux and C. H. Ishwara-Chandra
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Photometric and Coravel observations of red giant candidates in three open clusters: membership, binarity, reddening and metallicity p. 91
J. J. Clariá, J.-C. Mermilliod, A. E. Piatti and M. C. Parisi
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On the difference between nuclear and contraction ages p. 101
W. Lyra, A. Moitinho, N. S. van der Bliek and J. Alves
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Detection of K $\mathsf$ -excess stars in the 14 Myr open cluster NGC 4755 p. 121
C. Bonatto, E. Bica, S. Ortolani and B. Barbuy
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XMM-Newton and INTEGRAL observations of new absorbed supergiant high-mass X-ray binaries p. 133
R. Walter, J. Zurita Heras, L. Bassani, A. Bazzano, A. Bodaghee, A. Dean, P. Dubath, A. N. Parmar, M. Renaud and P. Ubertini
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Interstellar and circumstellar matter

Strongly induced collapse in the Class 0 protostar NGC 1333 IRAS 4A p. 145
A. Belloche, P. Hennebelle and P. André

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Extended envelopes around Galactic Cepheids - II. Polaris and $\delta$ Cephei from near-infrared interferometry with CHARA/FLUOR p. 155
A. Mérand, P. Kervella, V. Coudé du Foresto, G. Perrin, S. T. Ridgway, J. P. Aufdenberg, T. A. ten Brummelaar, H. A. McAlister, L. Sturmann, J. Sturmann, N. H. Turner and D. H. Berger
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Modeling the gas-phase chemistry of the transitional disk around HD 141569A p. 163
B. Jonkheid, I. Kamp, J.-C. Augereau and E. F. van Dishoeck
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The XMM-Newton view of the Crab p. 173
M. G. F. Kirsch, G. Schönherr, E. Kendziorra, M. J. Freyberg, M. Martin, J. Wilms, K. Mukerjee, M. G. Breitfellner, M. J. S. Smith and R. Staubert
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Turbulence and particle acceleration in collisionless supernovae remnant shocks - I. Anisotropic spectra solutions p. 181
G. Pelletier, M. Lemoine and A. Marcowith
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Turbulence and particle acceleration in collisionless supernovae remnant shocks - II. Cosmic-ray transport p. 193
A. Marcowith, M. Lemoine and G. Pelletier
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Stellar structure and evolution

Type Ia supernova diversity in three-dimensional models p. 203
F. K. Röpke, M. Gieseler, M. Reinecke, C. Travaglio and W. Hillebrandt
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The ZZ Ceti star G 185-32: new insight from asteroseismology p. 219
D. Pech and G. Vauclair
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Theoretical light curves for deflagration models of type Ia supernova p. 229
S. I. Blinnikov, F. K. Röpke, E. I. Sorokina, M. Gieseler, M. Reinecke, C. Travaglio, W. Hillebrandt and M. Stritzinger
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X-ray and optical bursts and flares in YSOs: results from a 5-day XMM-Newton monitoring campaign of L1551 p. 241
G. Giardino, F. Favata, B. Silva, G. Micela, F. Reale and S. Sciortino
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Boundary layer emission and Z-track in the color-color diagram of luminous LMXBs p. 253
M. G. Revnivtsev and M. R. Gilfanov
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Rotational mixing in low-mass stars - II. Self-consistent models of Pop II RGB stars p. 261
A. Palacios, C. Charbonnel, S. Talon and L. Siess
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Structure of the hot object in the symbiotic prototype Z Andromedae during its 2000-03 active phase p. 279
A. Skopal, A. A. Vittone, L. Errico, M. Otsuka, S. Tamura, M. Wolf and V. G. Elkin
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M-type giants as optical counterparts of X-ray sources 4U 1700+24 and 4U 1954+319 p. 295
N. Masetti, M. Orlandini, E. Palazzi, L. Amati and F. Frontera
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Radio continuum monitoring of the extreme carbon star IRC+10216 p. 301
K. M. Menten, M. J. Reid, E. Krügel, M. J. Claussen and R. Sahai
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Stellar atmospheres

High resolution spectroscopy for Cepheids distance determination - I. Line asymmetry p. 309
N. Nardetto, D. Mourard, P. Kervella, Ph. Mathias, A. Mérand and D. Bersier
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The Sun

Neoclassical bootstrap current in solar plasma loops p. 321
B.-L. Tan and G.-L. Huang
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Magnetic field confinement by meridional flow and the solar tachocline p. 329
L. L. Kitchatinov and G. Rüdiger
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Observations of simultaneous coronal loop shrinkage and expansion during the decay phase of a solar flare p. 335
J. I. Khan, L. Fletcher and N. V. Nitta
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Planets and planetary systems

A numerical study of the 2:1 planetary resonance p. 341
F. Marzari, H. Scholl and P. Tricarico
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Celestial mechanics and astrometry

CCD positions for eight Jovian irregular satellites p. 349
C. H. Veiga
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The size of the stability regions of Jupiter Trojans p. 353
F. Freistetter
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Second-order torque on the tidal redistribution and the Earth's rotation p. 363
S. B. Lambert and P. M. Mathews
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Online catalogs and data

TCS-CAIN: a deep multi-colour NIR survey of the Galactic plane p. 371
A. Cabrera-Lavers, F. Garzón, P. L. Hammersley, B. Vicente and C. González-Fernández
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