Astronomy & Astrophysics

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A&A Vol. 469 No. 2

	Astronomy and Astrophysics
	Vol. 469 No. 2 (July II 2007)
Cover illustration: Photometry of the Type Ia Supernova 2003du (V. Stanishev, et al., p. 651)

Cosmology (including clusters of galaxies)

Limits on the Macho content of the Galactic Halo from the EROS-2 Survey of the Magellanic Clouds p. 387
P. Tisserand, L. Le Guillou, C. Afonso, J. N. Albert, J. Andersen, R. Ansari, É. Aubourg, P. Bareyre, J. P. Beaulieu, X. Charlot, C. Coutures, R. Ferlet, P. Fouqué, J. F. Glicenstein, B. Goldman, A. Gould, D. Graff, M. Gros, J. Haissinski, C. Hamadache, J. de Kat, T. Lasserre, É. Lesquoy, C. Loup, C. Magneville, J. B. Marquette, É. Maurice, A. Maury, A. Milsztajn, M. Moniez, N. Palanque-Delabrouille, O. Perdereau, Y. R. Rahal, J. Rich, M. Spiro, A. Vidal-Madjar, L. Vigroux, and S. Zylberajch (The EROS-2 collaboration)
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Extragalactic astronomy

Supermassive black holes in the Sbc spiral galaxies NGC 3310, NGC 4303 and NGC 4258 p. 405
G. Pastorini, A. Marconi, A. Capetti, D. J. Axon, A. Alonso-Herrero, J. Atkinson, D. Batcheldor, C. M. Carollo, J. Collett, L. Dressel, M. A. Hughes, D. Macchetto, W. Maciejewski, W. Sparks, and R. van der Marel
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Physical conditions in the neutral interstellar medium at z = 2.43 toward Q 2348-011 p. 425
P. Noterdaeme, P. Petitjean, R. Srianand, C. Ledoux, and F. Le Petit
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FIRST-based survey of compact steep spectrum sources - V. Milliarcsecond-scale morphology of CSS objects p. 437
M. Kunert-Bajraszewska and A. Marecki
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Radio continuum spectra of gigahertz-peaked spectrum galaxies p. 451
I. Torniainen, M. Tornikoski, A. Lähteenmäki, M. F. Aller, H. D. Aller, and M. G. Mingaliev
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VLT/NACO near-infrared imaging and spectroscopy of N159-5 in the LMC HII complex N159 p. 459
G. Testor, J. L. Lemaire, L. E. Kristensen, D. Field, and S. Diana
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Bar-driven injection of intergalactic matter into galactic halos p. 471
M. López-Corredoira
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Unravelling the morphologies of luminous compact galaxies using the HST/ACS GOODS survey p. 483
A. Rawat, A. K. Kembhavi, F. Hammer, H. Flores, and S. Barway
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REM near-IR and optical multiband observations of PKS 2155-304 in 2005 p. 503
A. Dolcini, F. Farfanelli, S. Ciprini, A. Treves, S. Covino, G. Tosti, E. Pian, B. Sbarufatti, E. Molinari, G. Chincarini, F. M. Zerbi, G. Malaspina, P. Conconi, L. Nicastro, E. Palazzi, V. Testa, F. Vitali, L. A. Antonelli, J. Danziger, G. Tagliaferri, E. Meurs, S. Vergani, A. Fernandez-Soto, E. Distefano, G. Cutispoto, and F. D'Alessio
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Galactic structure, stellar clusters, and populations

Dark matter in the Milky Way - II. The HI gas distribution as a tracer of the gravitational potential p. 511
P. M. W. Kalberla, L. Dedes, J. Kerp, and U. Haud
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Multi-color photometry of the Galactic globular cluster M 75 = NGC 6864. A new sensitive metallicity indicator and the position of the horizontal branch in UV p. 529
V. Kravtsov, G. Alcaíno, G. Marconi, and F. Alvarado
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Interstellar and circumstellar matter

ISOCAM mid-infrared spectroscopy and NIR photometry of the HII complex N4 in the Large Magellanic Cloud p. 539
A. Contursi, M. Rubio, M. Sauvage, D. Cesarsky R. Barba, and F. Boulanger
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Self-consistent treatment of dynamics and chemistry in the winds from carbon-rich AGB stars - I. Tests of the equilibrium and kinetic chemical codes p. 553
M. Pulecka, M. R. Schmidt, V. I. Shematovich, and R. Szczerba
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Excitation conditions in the Orion molecular cloud obtained from observations of ortho- and para-lines of H $_ {\sf 2}$ p. 561
L. E. Kristensen, T. L. Ravkilde, D. Field, J. L. Lemaire, and G. Pineau des Forêts
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Analysis of the emission of very small dust particles from Spitzer spectro-imagery data using blind signal separation methods p. 575
O. Berné, C. Joblin, Y. Deville, J. D. Smith, M. Rapacioli, J. P. Bernard, J. Thomas, W. Reach, and A. Abergel
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Resolving the B[e] star Hen 3-1191 at 10 $\mathsf{\mu}$ m with VLTI/MIDI p. 587
R. Lachaume, Th. Preibisch, Th. Driebe, and G. Weigelt
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Statistical properties of dust far-infrared emission p. 595
M.-A. Miville-Deschênes, G. Lagache, F. Boulanger, and J.-L. Puget
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Stellar structure and evolution

The subpulse modulation properties of pulsars at 92 cm and the frequency dependence of subpulse modulation p. 607
P. Weltevrede, B. W. Stappers, and R. T. Edwards
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Interferometric observations of the multiple stellar system $\delta$ Velorum p. 633
A. Kellerer, M. G. Petr-Gotzens, P. Kervella, and V. Coudé du Foresto
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Neutrino transport and hydrodynamic stability of rotating proto-neutron stars p. 639
V. Urpin
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SN 2003du: 480 days in the life of a normal type Ia supernova p. 645
V. Stanishev, A. Goobar, S. Benetti, R. Kotak, G. Pignata, H. Navasardyan, P. Mazzali, R. Amanullah, G. Garavini, S. Nobili, Y. Qiu, N. Elias-Rosa, P. Ruiz-Lapuente, J. Mendez, P. Meikle, F. Patat, A. Pastorello, G. Altavilla, M. Gustafsson, A. Harutyunyan, T. Iijima, P. Jakobsson, M. V. Kichizhieva, P. Lundqvist, S. Mattila, J. Melinder, E. P. Pavlenko, N. N. Pavlyuk, J. Sollerman, D. Yu. Tsvetkov, M. Turatto, and W. Hillebrandt
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GRB 050410 and GRB 050412: are they really dark gamma-ray bursts? p. 663
T. Mineo, V. Mangano, S. Covino, G. Cusumano, V. La Parola, E. Troja, P. Roming, D. N. Burrows, S. Campana, M. Capalbi, G. Chincarini, N. Gehrels, P. Giommi, J. E. Hill, F. Marshall, A. Moretti, P. O'Brien, M. Page, M. Perri, P. Romano, B. Sbarufatti, G. Sato, and G. Tagliaferri
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Stellar atmospheres

Atmospheric dynamics and the mass loss process in red supergiant stars p. 671
E. Josselin and B. Plez
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The influence of Stark broadening on Cr II spectral line shapes in stellar atmospheres p. 681
M. S. Dimitrijevic, T. Ryabchikova, Z. Simic, L. C. Popovic, and M. Dacic
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Three-dimensional hydrodynamical simulations of surface convection in red giant stars - Impact on spectral line formation and abundance analysis p. 687
R. Collet, M. Asplund, and R. Trampedach
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Constraining GRB progenitor models by probing Wolf-Rayet wind geometries in the Large Magellanic Cloud p. 707
Jorick S. Vink
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Results from a spectroscopic survey in the CoRoT fields - I. Search for chromospherically active stars p. 713
B. J. Medhi, S. Messina, Padmakar S. Parihar, I. Pagano, S. Muneer, and K. Duorah
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The Sun

Chromospheric reversals in the emergence of an ephemeral region p. 721
A. Sainz Dalda and A. López Ariste
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Stokes diagnostics of simulated solar magneto-convection p. 731
S. Shelyag, M. Schüssler, S. K. Solanki, and A. Vögler
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The influence of H $\mathsf^$ - photo-dissociation and (H + H $\mathsf}$ )- radiative collisions on the solar atmosphere opacity in UV and VUV regions p. 749
A. A. Mihajlov, Lj. M. Ignjatovic, N. M. Sakan, and M. S. Dimitrijevic
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Planets and planetary systems

The multiplicity of exoplanet host stars - Spectroscopic confirmation of the companions GJ 3021 B and HD 27442 B, one new planet host triple-star system, and global statistics p. 755
M. Mugrauer, R. Neuhäuser, and T. Mazeh
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Photometry and imaging of comet C/2004 Q2 (Machholz) at Lulin and La Silla p. 771
Z. Y. Lin, M. Weiler, H. Rauer, and W. H. Ip
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Celestial mechanics and astrometry

The Earth's core parameters as seen by the VLBI p. 777
S. B. Lambert and V. Dehant
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Astronomical instrumentation

A new code for automatic determination of equivalent widths: Automatic Routine for line Equivalent widths in stellar Spectra (ARES) p. 783
S. G. Sousa, N. C. Santos, G. Israelian, M. Mayor, and M. J. P. F. G. Monteiro
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Interferometric array layout design by tomographic projection p. 793
M. de Villiers
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Online catalogs and data

An evolutionary catalogue of galactic post-AGB and related objects p. 799
R. Szczerba, N. Siódmiak, G. Stasinska, and J. Borkowski
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A catalogue of low-mass X-ray binaries in the Galaxy, LMC, and SMC (Fourth edition) p. 807
Q. Z. Liu, J. van Paradijs, and E. P. J. van den Heuvel
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