Astronomy and Astrophysics
	Vol. 456 No. 2 (September III 2006)
Cover illustration: Low sulfur depletion signatures in the Horsehead PDR (J. R. Goicoechea, et al., p. 577)

Letters


• A quasi-periodic modulation of the radio light curve of the blazar PKS B0048-097     p. L1
  M. Kadler, P. A. Hughes, E. Ros, M. F. Aller and H. D. Aller
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• Swift, RXTE, and INTEGRAL observation of Swift J1922.7-1716     p. L5
  M. Falanga, T. Belloni and S. Campana
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Astrophysical processes
• Galactic Cosmic Ray modulation based on transport parameters obtained via test particle simulations     p. 405
  J. F. Valdés-Galicia, R. A. Caballero-López and H. Moraal
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Cosmology (including clusters of galaxies)
• VIMOS-IFU survey of z ~ 0.2 massive galaxy clusters - I. Observations of the strong lensing cluster Abell 2667     p. 409
  G. Covone, J.-P. Kneib, G. Soucail, J. Richard, E. Jullo and H. Ebeling
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• The cosmic shear three-point functions     p. 421
  K. Benabed and R. Scoccimarro
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• Large-scale structure of Lyman break galaxies around a radio galaxy protocluster at z     p. 433
  H. T. Intema, B. P. Venemans, J. D. Kurk, M. Ouchi, T. Kodama, H. J. A. Röttgering, G. K. Miley and R. A. Overzier
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Extragalactic astronomy
• Refining the fundamental plane of accreting black holes     p. 439
  E. Körding, H. Falcke and S. Corbel
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• Planetary nebulae in the Magellanic Clouds - II. Abundances and element production     p. 451
  P. Leisy and M. Dennefeld
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• A new sample of bright galaxy pairs in UZC     p. 467
  P. Focardi, V. Zitelli, S. Marinoni and B. Kelm
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• The non-constant slope of the C IV Baldwin effect in NGC 4151     p. 473
  M.-Z. Kong, X.-B. Wu, R. Wang, F. K. Liu and J. L. Han
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• From tidal dwarf galaxies to satellite galaxies     p. 481
  F. Bournaud and P.-A. Duc
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• The role of Kelvin-Helmholtz instability in the internal structure of relativistic outflows. The case of the jet in 3C 273     p. 493
  M. Perucho, A. P. Lobanov, J.-M. Martí and P. E. Hardee
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• Search for dense molecular gas in two QSO host galaxies     p. 505
  J.-U. Pott, A. Eckart, M. Krips, L. E. Tacconi-Garman and E. Lindt
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• The multiwavelength afterglow of GRB 050721: a puzzling rebrightening seen in the optical but not in the X-ray     p. 509
  L. A. Antonelli, V. Testa, P. Romano, D. Guetta, K. Torii, V. D' Elia, D. Malesani, G. Chincarini, S. Covino, P. D'Avanzo, M. Della Valle, F. Fiore, D. Fugazza, A. Moretti, L. Stella, G. Tagliaferri, S. Barthelmy, D. Burrows, S. Campana, M. Capalbi, G. Cusumano, N. Gehrels, P. Giommi, D. Lazzati, V. La Parola, V. Mangano, T. Mineo, J. Nousek, P. T. O'Brien and M. Perri
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Galactic structure, stellar clusters, and populations
• Absolute motions of globular clusters - II. HST astrometry and VLT radial velocities in NGC 6397     p. 517
  A. P. Milone, S. Villanova, L. R. Bedin, G. Piotto, G. Carraro, J. Anderson, I. R. King and S. Zaggia
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• Population analysis of open clusters: radii and mass segregation     p. 523
  E. Schilbach, N. V. Kharchenko, A. E. Piskunov, S. Röser and R.-D. Scholz
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Interstellar and circumstellar matter
• Analysis of the dust evolution in the circumstellar disks of T Tauri stars     p. 535
  A. Schegerer, S. Wolf, N. V. Voshchinnikov, F. Przygodda and J. E. Kessler-Silacci
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• Probing the mass-loss history of AGB and red supergiant stars from CO rotational line profiles - I. Theoretical model - Mass-loss history unravelled in VY CMa     p. 549
  L. Decin, S. Hony, A. de Koter, K. Justtanont, A. G. G. M. Tielens and L. B. F. M. Waters
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• Low sulfur depletion in the Horsehead PDR     p. 565
  J. R. Goicoechea, J. Pety, M. Gerin, D. Teyssier, E. Roueff, P. Hily-Blant and S. Baek
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• Coronal emission from the shocked circumstellar ring of SN 1987A     p. 581
  P. Gröningsson, C. Fransson, P. Lundqvist, T. Nymark, N. Lundqvist, R. Chevalier, B. Leibundgut and J. Spyromilio
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• IC 5217 as a double-shell, point-symmetric planetary nebula with a very narrow waist     p. 591
  L. F. Miranda, S. Ayala, R. Vázquez and P. F. Guillén
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Stellar structure and evolution
• Photometric study of selected cataclysmic variables     p. 599
  C. Papadaki, H. M. J. Boffin, C. Sterken, V. Stanishev, J. Cuypers, P. Boumis, S. Akras and J. Alikakos
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• Asteroseismic signatures of helium gradients in late F-type stars     p. 611
  M. Castro and S. Vauclair
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• Self-consistent theory of turbulent transport in the solar tachocline - II. Tachocline confinement     p. 617
  N. Leprovost and Eun-Jin Kim
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• The VLT-FLAMES survey of massive stars: observations centered on the Magellanic Cloud clusters NGC 330, NGC 346, NGC 2004, and the N11 region     p. 623
  C. J. Evans, D. J. Lennon, S. J. Smartt and C. Trundle
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• Magnetars versus radio pulsars - MHD stability in newborn highly magnetized neutron stars     p. 639
  U. Geppert and M. Rheinhardt
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• Eclipsing binaries observed with the WIRE satellite - I. Discovery and photometric analysis of the new bright A0 IV eclipsing binary  Centauri     p. 651
  H. Bruntt, J. Southworth, G. Torres, A. J. Penny, J. V. Clausen and D. L. Buzasi
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Stellar atmospheres
• On the sensitivity of He I singlet lines to the Fe IV model atom in O stars     p. 659
  F. Najarro, D. J. Hillier, J. Puls, T. Lanz and F. Martins
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The Sun
• Vector tomography for the coronal magnetic field - I. Longitudinal Zeeman effect measurements     p. 665
  M. Kramar, B. Inhester and S. K. Solanki
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• Line formation in solar granulation - VII. CO lines and the solar C and O isotopic abundances     p. 675
  P. C. Scott, M. Asplund, N. Grevesse and A. J. Sauval
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• Observational characteristics and association of umbral oscillations and running penumbral waves     p. 689
  K. Tziotziou, G. Tsiropoula, N. Mein and P. Mein
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• High-resolution millimeter-interferometer observations of the solar chromosphere     p. 697
  S. M. White, M. Loukitcheva and S. K. Solanki
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• The dynamics of the solar chromosphere: comparison of model predictions with millimeter-interferometer observations     p. 713
  M. Loukitcheva, S. K. Solanki and S. White
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• First observation of bald patches in a filament channel and at a barb endpoint     p. 725
  A. López Ariste, G. Aulanier, B. Schmieder and A. Sainz Dalda
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• Fast magnetohydrodynamic oscillations in an elliptical coronal arcade     p. 737
  A. J. Díaz
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• Calibration of TRACE Lyman- images using SOHO/SUMER observations     p. 747
  Sungsoo S. Kim, Hee-Seon Roh, Kyung-Seok Cho and Junho Shin
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• Relations between concurrent hard X-ray sources in solar flares     p. 751
  M. Battaglia and A. O. Benz
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Planets and planetary systems
• Monitoring atmospheric phenomena on Titan     p. 761
  M. Hirtzig, A. Coustenis, E. Gendron, P. Drossart, A. Negrão, M. Combes, O. Lai, P. Rannou, S. Lebonnois and D. Luz
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• Basaltic asteroids in the Near-Earth Objects population: a mineralogical analysis     p. 775
  R. Duffard, J. de León, J. Licandro, D. Lazzaro and M. Serra-Ricart
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Celestial mechanics and astrometry
• Synthetic representation of the Galilean satellites' orbital motions from L1 ephemerides     p. 783
  V. Lainey, L. Duriez and A. Vienne
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Online catalogs and data
• SearchCal: a virtual observatory tool for searching calibrators in optical long baseline interferometry - I. The bright object case     p. 789
  D. Bonneau, J.-M. Clausse, X. Delfosse, D. Mourard, S. Cetre, A. Chelli, P. Cruzalèbes, G. Duvert and G. Zins
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• New results from the low-frequency counterpart of the XMM large scale structure survey     p. 791
  C. Tasse, A. S. Cohen, H. J. A. Röttgering, N. E. Kassim, M. Pierre, R. Perley, P. Best, M. Birkinshaw, M. Bremer and H. Liang
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