Astronomy & Astrophysics

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A&A Vol. 458 No. 2

	Astronomy and Astrophysics
	Vol. 458 No. 2 (November I 2006)
Cover illustration: The cosmological hydrogen recombination spectrum (J. Chluba and R. A. Sunyaev, p. L31)

Letters

Degenerate sterile neutrino dark matter in the cores of galaxies p. L9
F. Munyaneza and P. L. Biermann
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Stellar X-ray heating of planet atmospheres p. L13
C. Cecchi-Pestellini, A. Ciaravella and G. Micela
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On the $\lambda$ Bootis spectroscopic binary hypothesis p. L17
Ch. Stütz and E. Paunzen
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A small jet in Chamaeleon I powered by a low-luminosity source p. L21
F. Comerón and B. Reipurth
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K-band polarimetry of an Sgr A* flare with a clear sub-flare structure p. L25
L. Meyer, R. Schödel, A. Eckart, V. Karas, M. Dovciak and W. J. Duschl
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Free-bound emission from cosmological hydrogen recombination p. L29
J. Chluba and R. A. Sunyaev
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Cosmology (including clusters of galaxies)

Combining weak and strong lensing in cluster potential reconstruction p. 349
M. Cacciato, M. Bartelmann, M. Meneghetti and L. Moscardini
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Extragalactic astronomy

Spatial orientation of galaxies in the core of the Shapley concentration - the cluster Abell 3558 p. 357
B. Aryal, S. M. Kandel and W. Saurer
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The star formation history of luminous infrared galaxies p. 369
D. Marcillac, D. Elbaz, S. Charlot, Y. C. Liang, F. Hammer, H. Flores, C. Cesarsky and A. Pasquali
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Galaxy morphology and evolution from SWAN adaptive optics imaging p. 385
G. Cresci, R. I. Davies, A. J. Baker, F. Mannucci, M. D. Lehnert, T. Totani and Y. Minowa
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Cosmological evolution of compact AGN at 15 GHz p. 397
T. G. Arshakian, E. Ros and J. A. Zensus
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The infrared emission from the narrow line region p. 405
B. Groves, M. Dopita and R. Sutherland
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Probing isotopic ratios at z = 0.89: molecular line absorption in front of the quasar PKS 1830-211 p. 417
S. Muller, M. Guélin, M. Dumke, R. Lucas and F. Combes
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The evolution of Lyman $\alpha$ absorbers in the redshift range $0.5<\textit{z}<1.9$ p. 427
E. Janknecht, D. Reimers, S. Lopez and D. Tytler
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Analysis of spiral arms using anisotropic wavelets: gas, dust and magnetic fields in M 51 p. 441
I. Patrikeev, A. Fletcher, R. Stepanov, R. Beck, E. M. Berkhuijsen, P. Frick and C. Horellou
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Galactic structure, stellar clusters, and populations

New Galactic Wolf-Rayet stars, and candidates - An annex to The VIIth Catalogue of Galactic Wolf-Rayet Stars p. 453
K. A. van der Hucht
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Binary stars in the Orion Nebula Cluster p. 461
R. Köhler, M. G. Petr-Gotzens, M. J. McCaughrean, J. Bouvier, G. Duchêne, A. Quirrenbach and H. Zinnecker
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The globular cluster mass/low mass X-ray binary correlation: implications for kick velocity distributions from supernovae p. 477
M. Smits, T. J. Maccarone, A. Kundu and S. E. Zepf
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Interstellar and circumstellar matter

Enhanced density and magnetic fields in interstellar OH masers p. 485
V. L. Fish, M. J. Reid, K. M. Menten and T. Pillai
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Effective rate coefficients for molecular hydrogen formation in diffuse interstellar clouds p. 497
Q. Chang, H. M. Cuppen and E. Herbst
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Rotational excitation of CO in a cool, mixed atomic and molecular hydrogen gas p. 507
H. S. Liszt
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Stellar structure and evolution

The X-ray binary 2S0114+650=LSI+65 010 - A slow pulsar or tidally-induced pulsations? p. 513
G. Koenigsberger, L. Georgiev, E. Moreno, M. G. Richer, O. Toledano, G. Canalizo and A. Arrieta
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Consistency between deep crustal heating of strange stars in superbursters and soft X-ray transients p. 523
M. Stejner and J. Madsen
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Near-IR variability properties of a selected sample of AGB stars p. 533
F. M. Jiménez-Esteban, P. García-Lario, D. Engels and A. Manchado
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Establishing HZ43 A, Sirius B, and RX J185635-3754 as soft X-ray standards: a cross-calibration between the Chandra LETG+HRC-S, the EUVE spectrometer, and the ROSAT PSPC p. 541
K. Beuermann, V. Burwitz and T. Rauch
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Three-dimensional simulations of non-stationary accretion by remnant black holes of compact object mergers p. 553
S. Setiawan, M. Ruffert and H.-Th. Janka
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The magnetic Bp star 36 Lyncis - I. Magnetic and photospheric properties p. 569
G. A. Wade, M. A. Smith, D. A. Bohlender, T. A. Ryabchikova, C. T. Bolton, T. Lueftinger, J. D. Landstreet, P. Petit, S. Strasser, M. Blake and G. M. Hill
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The magnetic Bp star 36 Lyncis - II. A spectroscopic analysis of its co-rotating disk p. 581
M. A. Smith, G. A. Wade, D. A. Bohlender and C. T. Bolton
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Infrared polarimetry of the microquasars H1743-322, XTE J1550-564 and GRO J1655-40 p. 591
G. Dubus and S. Chaty
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Stellar atmospheres

2D non-LTE modeling for axisymmetric winds - Method and test cases p. 597
L. N. Georgiev, D. J. Hillier and J. Zsargó
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Basic physical parameters of a selected sample of evolved stars p. 609
L. da Silva, L. Girardi, L. Pasquini, J. Setiawan, O. von der Lühe, J. R. de Medeiros, A. Hatzes, M. P. Döllinger and A. Weiss
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The Sun

Collisional influence on the differential Hanle effect method applied to the second solar spectrum of the A $^\mathsf}\Pi$ -X $^\mathsf}\Sigma^{+}$ (0, 0) band of MgH p. 625
V. Bommier, E. Landi Degl'Innocenti, N. Feautrier and G. Molodij
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Growing drift-Alfvén modes in collisional solar plasma p. 635
J. Vranjes and S. Poedts
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Electron acceleration in solar flares: theory of spectral evolution p. 641
P. C. Grigis and A. O. Benz
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X-ray plasma ejections associated with coronal type II shocks p. 653
A. Shanmugaraju, Y.-J. Moon, Y.-H. Kim, K.-S. Cho, M. Dryer and S. Umapathy
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Planets and planetary systems

Formation of giant planets around stars with various masses p. 661
K. Kornet, S. Wolf and M. Rózyczka
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Hubble Space Telescope observations of the nucleus and inner coma of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko p. 669
P. L. Lamy, I. Toth, H. A. Weaver, L. Jorda, M. Kaasalainen and P. J. Gutiérrez
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