Astronomy & Astrophysics

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A&A Vol. 463 No. 2

	Astronomy and Astrophysics
	Vol. 463 No. 2 (February IV 2007)
Cover illustration: Electron bremsstrahlung revealed in Jupiter's aurorae (G. Branduardi-Raymont, et al., p. 765)

Letters

First detection of photospheric depletion in the Large Magellanic Cloud p. L1
M. Reyniers and H. Van Winckel
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XMM-Newton observations of PSR B1957+20 p. L5
H. H. Huang and W. Becker
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Effect of rotation on the tachoclinic transport p. L9
N. Leprovost and Eun-Jin Kim
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Time variation of radial gradients in the Galactic disk: electron temperatures and abundances p. L13
W. J. Maciel, C. Quireza, and R. D. D. Costa
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Cosmology (including clusters of galaxies)

Tracking quintessence by cosmic shear - Constraints from VIRMOS-Descart and CFHTLS and future prospects p. 405
C. Schimd, I. Tereno, J.-P. Uzan, Y. Mellier, L. van Waerbeke, E. Semboloni, H. Hoekstra, L. Fu, and A. Riazuelo
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Gas mass fraction from XMM-Newton and Chandra high redshift clusters and its use as a cosmological test p. 423
L. D. Ferramacho and A. Blanchard
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Planar distribution of the galaxies in the Local Group: a statistical and dynamical analysis p. 427
S. Pasetto and C. Chiosi
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Extragalactic astronomy

Optical and NIR spectroscopy of Mrk 1210: constraints and physical conditions of the active nucleus p. 445
X. Mazzalay and A. Rodríguez-Ardila
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Nearby early-type galaxies with ionized gas - III. Analysis of line-strength indices with new stellar population models p. 455
F. Annibali, A. Bressan, R. Rampazzo, W. W. Zeilinger, and L. Danese
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Galactic star formation rates gauged by stellar end-products p. 481
M. Persic and Y. Rephaeli
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The age structure of globular cluster systems in early-type galaxies and its dependence on host galaxy properties p. 493
M. Hempel, M. Kissler-Patig, T. H. Puzia, and M. Hilker
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The early-type dwarf galaxy population of the Fornax cluster p. 503
S. Mieske, M. Hilker, L. Infante, and C. Mendes de Oliveira
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Simulations of metal enrichment in galaxy clusters by AGN outflows p. 513
R. Moll, S. Schindler, W. Domainko, W. Kapferer, M. Mair, E. van Kampen, T. Kronberger, S. Kimeswenger, and M. Ruffert
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The VVDS-VLA deep field - III. GMRT observations at 610 MHz and the radio spectral index properties of the sub-mJy population p. 519
M. Bondi, P. Ciliegi, T. Venturi, D. Dallacasa, S. Bardelli, E. Zucca, R. M. Athreya, L. Gregorini, A. Zanichelli, O. Le Fèvre, T. Contini, B. Garilli, A. Iovino, S. Temporin, and D. Vergani
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Dissipation of jet bulk kinetic energy in powerful blazars p. 529
K. Katarzynski and G. Ghisellini
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The circumburst environment of a FRED GRB: study of the prompt emission and X-ray/optical afterglow of GRB 051111 p. 539
C. Guidorzi, A. Gomboc, S. Kobayashi, C. G. Mundell, E. Rol, M. F. Bode, D. Carter,
V. La Parola, A. Melandri, A. Monfardini, C. J. Mottram, P. T. O'Brien, K. L. Page,
T. Sakamoto, R. J. Smith, I. A. Steele, and N. R. Tanvir
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The millimetre variability of M 81* - Multi-epoch dual frequency mm-observations of the nucleus of M 81 p. 551
R. Schödel, M. Krips, S. Markoff, R. Neri, and A. Eckart
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Galactic structure, stellar clusters, and populations

K-band magnitude of the red clump as a distance indicator p. 559
V. Van Helshoecht and M. A. T. Groenewegen
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Low-frequency radio monitoring of microquasars p. 567
M. Pandey, A. P. Rao, C. H. Ishwara-Chandra, P. Durouchoux, and R. K. Manchanda
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The Pleiades eclipsing binary HD 23642 revisited p. 579
M. A. T. Groenewegen, L. Decin, M. Salaris, and P. De Cat
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RR Lyrae stars in the southern globular cluster NGC 362 p. 589
P. Székely, L. L. Kiss, R. Jackson, A. Derekas, B. Csák, and K. Szatmáry
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Interstellar and circumstellar matter

Hot corinos in NGC 1333-IRAS4B and IRAS2A p. 601
S. Bottinelli, C. Ceccarelli, J. P. Williams, and B. Lefloch
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XMM-Newton observations of the eastern jet of SS 433 p. 611
W. Brinkmann, G. W. Pratt, S. Rohr, N. Kawai, and V. Burwitz
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The new nebula in LDN 1415 - A cry from the cradle of a low-luminosity source p. 621
B. Stecklum, S. Y. Melnikov, and H. Meusinger
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On the hydrogen neutral outflowing disks of B[e] supergiants p. 627
M. Kraus, M. Borges Fernandes, and F. X. de Araújo
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IRAS 08572+3915: constraining the aromatic versus aliphatic content of interstellar HACs p. 635
E. Dartois, T. R. Geballe, T. Pino, A.-T. Cao, A. Jones, D. Deboffle, V. Guerrini, Ph. Bréchignac, and L. d'Hendecourt
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Stellar structure and evolution

A mid-infrared study of very low mass stars and brown dwarfs in Upper Scorpius p. 641
H. Bouy, N. Huélamo, E. L. Martín, D. Barrado y Navascués, M. Sterzik, and E. Pantin
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Zeeman tomography of magnetic white dwarfs - IV. The complex field structure of the polars EF Eridani, BL Hydri and CP Tucanae p. 647
K. Beuermann, F. Euchner, K. Reinsch, S. Jordan, and B. T. Gänsicke
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Asteroseismology of exoplanets host stars: the special case of $\iota$ Horologii (HD 17051) p. 657
M. Laymand and S. Vauclair
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Analysis of ISO SWS01 spectra of S stars p. 663
X. H. Yang, P. Chen, J. Wang, and J. He
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Rotational velocities of A-type stars - III. Velocity distributions p. 671
F. Royer, J. Zorec, and A. E. Gómez
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The q = 1 peak in the mass-ratios for Hipparcos visual binaries p. 683
S. Söderhjelm
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Isotope structure of Sm II as an indicator of r- vs. s-process nucleosynthesis p. 693
M. Lundqvist, G. M. Wahlgren, and V. Hill
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On the nature of the cool component of MWC 560 p. 703
M. Gromadzki, J. Mikolajewska, P. A. Whitelock, and F. Marang
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Direct imaging of the young spectroscopic binary HD 160934 p. 707
F. Hormuth, W. Brandner, S. Hippler, M. Janson, and T. Henning
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The Sun

A statistical study of wave propagation in coronal holes p. 713
E. O'Shea, D. Banerjee, and J. G. Doyle
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Magnetic flux tubes observed with THEMIS/MSDP p. 727
P. Mein, N. Mein, M. Faurobert, G. Aulanier, and J.-M. Malherbe
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Prominence fine structures in a magnetic equilibrium - III. Lyman continuum in 2D configurations p. 737
S. Gunár, P. Heinzel, and U. Anzer
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Intensity variations inside supergranules p. 745
N. Meunier, R. Tkaczuk, and Th. Roudier
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Low abundances of heavy elements in the solar outer layers: comparisons of solar models with helioseismic inversions p. 755
M. Castro, S. Vauclair, and O. Richard
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Erratum

Resonantly damped oscillations of longitudinally stratified coronal loops p. 759
M. V. Dymova and M. S. Ruderman
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Planets and planetary systems

A study of Jupiter's aurorae with XMM-Newton p. 761
G. Branduardi-Raymont, A. Bhardwaj, R. F. Elsner, G. R. Gladstone, G. Ramsay, P. Rodriguez, R. Soria, J. H. Waite, Jr, and T. E. Cravens
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Protoplanet magnetosphere interactions p. 775
J. C. B. Papaloizou
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Celestial mechanics and astrometry

Combined astrometric catalogue EOC-3 - An improved reference frame for long-term Earth rotation studies p. 783
J. Vondrák and V. Stefka
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Online catalogs and data

New catalogue of blue stragglers in open clusters p. 789
J. A. Ahumada and E. Lapasset
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