Astronomy and Astrophysics
	Vol. 457 No. 2 (October II 2006)
Cover illustration: Stellar models with different rates of mass loss (M. Castellani, et al., p. 570)

Letters


• The small dispersion of the mid IR - hard X-ray correlation in active galactic nuclei     p. L17
  H. Horst, A. Smette, P. Gandhi and W. J. Duschl
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• Detection of a population gradient in the Sagittarius stream     p. L21
  M. Bellazzini, H. J. Newberg, M. Correnti, F. R. Ferraro and L. Monaco
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Astrophysical processes
• Elliptical dust growth in astrophysical plasmas     p. 365
  C. R. Stark, H. E. Potts and D. A. Diver
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• A high order Godunov scheme with constrained transport and adaptive mesh refinement for astrophysical magnetohydrodynamics     p. 371
  S. Fromang, P. Hennebelle and R. Teyssier
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Cosmology (including clusters of galaxies)
• High order correction terms for the peak-peak correlation function in nearly-Gaussian models     p. 385
  A. P. A. Andrade, A. L. B. Ribeiro and C. A. Wuensche
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• The XMM large scale structure survey: properties and two-point angular correlations of point-like sources     p. 393
  P. Gandhi, O. Garcet, L. Disseau, F. Pacaud, M. Pierre, A. Gueguen, D. Alloin, L. Chiappetti, E. Gosset, D. Maccagni, J. Surdej and I. Valtchanov
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Extragalactic astronomy
• Photometric study of a sample of southern binary galaxies     p. 405
  T. C. Couto da Silva and R. E. de Souza
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• Optical spectroscopy for a sample of southern binary galaxies     p. 425
  T. C. Couto da Silva and R. E. de Souza
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• Formation and evolution of early-type galaxies - II. Models with quasi-cosmological initial conditions     p. 437
  E. Merlin and C. Chiosi
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• Simultaneous radio-interferometric and high-energy TeV observations of the -ray blazar Mkn 421     p. 455
  P. Charlot, D. C. Gabuzda, H. Sol, B. Degrange and F. Piron
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• Analysing globular cluster observations - Models and analysis tools for Lick/IDS indices     p. 467
  T. Lilly and U. Fritze - v. Alvensleben
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• A spectroscopic study of the near-IR [SIII] lines in a sample of HII galaxies: chemical abundances     p. 477
  C. Kehrig, J. M. Vílchez, E. Telles, F. Cuisinier and E. Pérez-Montero
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• On the signatures of gravitational redshift: the onset of relativistic emission lines     p. 485
  A. Müller and M. Wold
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• Hickson 62 - I. Kinematics of NGC 4778     p. 493
  M. Spavone, E. Iodice, G. Longo, M. Paolillo and S. Sodani
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• The XMM-Newton survey of the ELAIS-S1 field - I. Number counts, angular correlation function and X-ray spectral properties     p. 501
  S. Puccetti, F. Fiore, V. D'Elia, I. Pillitteri, C. Feruglio, A. Grazian, M. Brusa, P. Ciliegi, A. Comastri, C. Gruppioni, M. Mignoli, C. Vignali, G. Zamorani, F. La Franca, N. Sacchi, A. Franceschini, S. Berta, H. Buttery and J. E. Dias
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• The ATESP 5 GHz radio survey - I. Source counts and spectral index properties of the faint radio population     p. 517
  I. Prandoni, P. Parma, M. H. Wieringa, H. R. de Ruiter, L. Gregorini, A. Mignano, G. Vettolani and R. D. Ekers
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• H I absorption in high-frequency peaker galaxies     p. 531
  M. Orienti, R. Morganti and D. Dallacasa
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Galactic structure, stellar clusters, and populations
• Radial mean velocity in the solar neighbourhood     p. 537
  R. Cubarsi and S. Alcobé
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• CADIS has seen the Virgo overdensity and parts of the Monoceros and "Orphan" streams in retrospect     p. 541
  B. Fuchs, S. Phleps and K. Meisenheimer
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Interstellar and circumstellar matter
• Crushing of interstellar gas clouds in supernova remnants - II. X-ray emission     p. 545
  S. Orlando, F. Bocchino, G. Peres, F. Reale, T. Plewa and R. Rosner
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• G76.188+0.098: a newly born massive binary star     p. 553
  F. Comerón, A. Pasquali and J. Torra
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• The tails in the Helix Nebula NGC 7293     p. 561
  J. E. Dyson, J. M. Pittard, J. Meaburn and S. A. E. G. Falle
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Stellar structure and evolution
• Hot flashers and He dwarfs in galactic globulars     p. 569
  M. Castellani, V. Castellani and P. G. Prada Moroni
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• Multiple shock waves in the atmosphere of the Cepheid X Sagittarii?     p. 575
  P. Mathias, D. Gillet, A. B. Fokin, N. Nardetto, P. Kervella and D. Mourard
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• Stellar parameters and evidence of circumstellar activity for a sample of Herbig Ae/Be stars     p. 581
  M. M. Guimarães, S. H. P. Alencar, W. J. B. Corradi and S. L. A. Vieira
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• Detection of additional Wolf-Rayet stars in the starburst cluster Westerlund 1 with SOAR     p. 591
  J. H. Groh, A. Damineli, M. Teodoro and C. L. Barbosa
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• VLT/UVES spectroscopy of Wray 977, the hypergiant companion to the X-ray pulsar GX301-2     p. 595
  L. Kaper, A. van der Meer and F. Najarro
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• 30 glitches in slow pulsars     p. 611
  G. H. Janssen and B. W. Stappers
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• The proper motion of the isolated neutron star RX J1605.3+3249     p. 619
  S. Zane, A. De Luca, R. P. Mignani and R. Turolla
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• XMM-Newton observations of AM CVn binaries: V396 Hya and SDSS J1240-01     p. 623
  G. Ramsay, P. J. Groot, T. Marsh, G. Nelemans, D. Steeghs and P. Hakala
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• Spectroscopic binaries with components of similar mass     p. 629
  L. B. Lucy
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Stellar atmospheres
• UBVJHK synthetic photometry of Galactic O stars     p. 637
  F. Martins and B. Plez
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• Potassium abundances in nearby metal-poor stars     p. 645
  H. W. Zhang, T. Gehren, K. Butler, J. R. Shi and G. Zhao
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• Abundance analysis of prime B-type targets for asteroseismology - I. Nitrogen excess in slowly-rotating   Cephei stars     p. 651
  T. Morel, K. Butler, C. Aerts, C. Neiner and M. Briquet
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The Sun
• Magnetic confinement of the solar tachocline     p. 665
  A. S. Brun and J.-P. Zahn
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• Non-linear interaction of the kinetic Alfvén waves and the filamentation process in the solar wind plasma     p. 675
  R. P. Sharma and M. Malik
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• The GLE on Oct. 28, 2003 - radio diagnostics of relativistic electron and proton injection     p. 681
  H. Aurass, G. Mann, G. Rausche and A. Warmuth
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• A very narrow gyrosynchrotron spectrum during a solar flare     p. 693
  C. G. Giménez de Castro, J. E. R. Costa, A. V. R. Silva, P. J. A. Simões, E. Correia and A. Magun
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• Magnetic structure of the solar transition region as observed in various ultraviolet lines emitted at different temperatures     p. 699
  E. Marsch, G.-Q. Zhou, J.-S. He and C.-Y. Tu
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• Effect of coronal structure on loop oscillations     p. 707
  G. R. Donnelly, A. J. Díaz and B. Roberts
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Celestial mechanics and astrometry
• Atmospheric excitation of the Earth's free core nutation     p. 717
  S. B. Lambert
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Atomic, molecular, and nuclear data
• Atomic data from the Iron Project - LXII. Allowed and forbidden transitions in Fe XVIII in relativistic Breit-Pauli approximation     p. 721
  S. N. Nahar
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Instruments, observational techniques, and data processing
• Optimal filtering of solar images using soft morphological processing techniques     p. 729
  S. Marshall, L. Fletcher and K. Hough
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