Free access The HARPS search for southern extra-solar planets - VI. A Neptune-mass planet around the nearby M dwarf Gl 581    p. L15 X. Bonfils, T. Forveille, X. Delfosse, S. Udry, M. Mayor, C. Perrier, F. Bouchy, F. Pepe, D. Queloz and J.-L. Bertaux DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:200500193 Abstract Full HTML PDF (256 KB) PS (279 KB) References Online Material SIMBAD record NASA ADS Abstract Service

Free access Metallicity dependent calibrations of flux based SFR tracers    p. L19 J. Bicker and U. Fritze–v. Alvensleben DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:200500194 Abstract Full HTML PDF (167 KB) PS (265 KB) References NASA ADS Abstract Service

Free access Extreme helium stars: non-LTE matters - Helium and hydrogen spectra of the unique objects V652 Her and HD 144941    p. L25 N. Przybilla, K. Butler, U. Heber and C. S. Jeffery DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:200500195 Abstract Full HTML PDF (718 KB) PS (355 KB) References SIMBAD record NASA ADS Abstract Service

Free access UHE nuclei propagation and the interpretation of the ankle in the cosmic-ray spectrum    p. L29 D. Allard, E. Parizot, A. V. Olinto, E. Khan and S. Goriely DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:200500199 Abstract Full HTML PDF (238 KB) PS (381 KB) References NASA ADS Abstract Service

Free access Multiband photometry of the blazar PKS 0537-441: a major active state in December 2004–March 2005    p. L33 A. Dolcini, S. Covino, A. Treves, E. Palazzi, E. Pian, E. Molinari, G. Chincarini, F. M. Zerbi, M. Rodonó, V. Testa, et al. (11 more) G. Tosti, F. Vitali, L. A. Antonelli, P. Conconi, G. Cutispoto, A. Monfardini, M. Stefanon, P. D'Avanzo, J. Danziger, A. Fernandez-Soto and E. Meurs DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:200500198 Abstract Full HTML PDF (230 KB) PS (705 KB) References SIMBAD record NASA ADS Abstract Service

Free access Gamma-ray bursts' spectra and synchro-curvature mechanism    p. 747 X. L. Deng, T. S. Xia and J. Liu DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20041514 Abstract Full HTML PDF (216 KB) PS (79.6 KB) References SIMBAD record NASA ADS Abstract Service

Free access Probing the outer edge of an accretion disk: a Her X-1 turn-on observed with RXTE    p. 753 M. Kuster, J. Wilms, R. Staubert, W. A. Heindl, R. E. Rothschild, N. I. Shakura and K. A. Postnov DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20042355 Abstract Full HTML PDF (719 KB) PS (316 KB) References SIMBAD record NASA ADS Abstract Service

Free access Space weathering of near-Earth and main belt silicate-rich asteroids: observations and ion irradiation experiments    p. 769 S. Marchi, R. Brunetto, S. Magrin, M. Lazzarin and D. Gandolfi DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20053525 Abstract Full HTML PDF (976 KB) PS (3.28 MB) References NASA ADS Abstract Service

Free access A toy model for coupling accretion disk oscillations to the neutron star spin    p. 777 J. Pétri DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20054119 Abstract Full HTML PDF (153 KB) PS (38.1 KB) References SIMBAD record NASA ADS Abstract Service

Free access SALT: a spectral adaptive light curve template for type Ia supernovae    p. 781 J. Guy, P. Astier, S. Nobili, N. Regnault and R. Pain DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20053025 Abstract Full HTML PDF (443 KB) PS (102 KB) References SIMBAD record NASA ADS Abstract Service

Free access Projection effects in cluster mass estimates: the case of MS2137-23    p. 793 R. Gavazzi DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20053166 Abstract Full HTML PDF (645 KB) PS (373 KB) References Online Material SIMBAD record NASA ADS Abstract Service

Free access The Vimos VLT deep survey: compact structures in the CDFS    p. 805 C. Adami, A. Mazure, O. Ilbert, A. Cappi, D. Bottini, B. Garilli, V. Le Brun, O. Le Fèvre, D. Maccagni, J. P. Picat, et al. (40 more) R. Scaramella, M. Scodeggio, L. Tresse, G. Vettolani, A. Zanichelli, M. Arnaboldi, S. Arnouts, S. Bardelli, M. Bolzonella, S. Charlot, P. Ciliegi, T. Contini, G. Covone, S. Foucaud, P. Franzetti, I. Gavignaud, L. Guzzo, A. Iovino, S. Lauger, H. J. McCracken, B. Marano, C. Marinoni, B. Meneux, R. Merighi, S. Paltani, R. Pellò, A. Pollo, L. Pozzetti, M. Radovich, G. Zamorani, E. Zucca, M. Bondi, A. Bongiorno, G. Busarello, L. Gregorini, G. Mathez, Y. Mellier, P. Merluzzi, V. Ripepi and D. Rizzo DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20053202 Abstract Full HTML PDF (2.28 MB) PS (2.60 MB) References SIMBAD record NASA ADS Abstract Service

Free access Cosmological structure formation in a homogeneous dark energy background    p. 819 W. J. Percival DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20053637 Abstract Full HTML PDF (906 KB) PS (310 KB) References NASA ADS Abstract Service

Free access Surface density of extremely red objects with R - J 5    p. 831 A. Hempel, T. M. Herbst and D. J. Thompson DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20042208 Abstract Full HTML PDF (832 KB) PS (2.46 MB) References SIMBAD record NASA ADS Abstract Service

Free access GRB 021004 modelled by multiple energy injections    p. 841 A. de Ugarte Postigo, A. J. Castro-Tirado, J. Gorosabel, G. Jóhannesson, G. Björnsson, E. H. Gudmundsson, M. Bremer, S. Pak, N. Tanvir, J. M. Castro Cerón, et al. (36 more) S. Guzyi, M. Jelínek, S. Klose, D. Pérez-Ramírez, J. Aceituno, A. Campo Bagatín, S. Covino, N. Cardiel, T. Fathkullin, A. A. Henden, S. Huferath, Y. Kurata, D. Malesani, F. Mannucci, P. Ruiz-Lapuente, V. Sokolov, U. Thiele, L. Wisotzki, L. A. Antonelli, C. Bartolini, A. Boattini, A. Guarnieri, A. Piccioni, G. Pizzichini, M. del Principe, A. di Paola, D. Fugazza, G. Ghisellini, L. Hunt, T. Konstantinova, N. Masetti, E. Palazzi, E. Pian, M. Stefanon, V. Testa and P. J. Tristram DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20052898 Abstract Full HTML PDF (760 KB) PS (1.22 MB) References SIMBAD record NASA ADS Abstract Service

Free access The IMF of the field population of 30 Doradus    p. 851 F. J. Selman and J. Melnick DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20042173 Abstract Full HTML PDF (2.93 MB) PS (56.8 MB) References Online Material Tables at CDS SIMBAD record NASA ADS Abstract Service

Free access Nonlinear stability of relativistic sheared planar jets    p. 863 M. Perucho, J. M. Martí and M. Hanasz DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20053115 Abstract Full HTML PDF (2.52 MB) PS (10.3 MB) References Online Material SIMBAD record NASA ADS Abstract Service

Free access The extragalactic Cepheid bias: significant influence on the cosmic distance scale    p. 883 G. Paturel and P. Teerikorpi DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20042144 Abstract Full HTML PDF (292 KB) PS (183 KB) References Online Material SIMBAD record NASA ADS Abstract Service

Free access Extended emission around GPS radio sources    p. 891 C. Stanghellini, C. P. O'Dea, D. Dallacasa, P. Cassaro, S. A. Baum, R. Fanti and C. Fanti DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20042226 Abstract Full HTML PDF (755 KB) PS (1.14 MB) References SIMBAD record NASA ADS Abstract Service

Free access Near infrared imaging of the broad absorption line quasar BAL QSO 0134+3253    p. 903 J. Zuther and A. Eckart DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20053018 Abstract Full HTML PDF (940 KB) PS (646 KB) References SIMBAD record NASA ADS Abstract Service

Free access POINT-AGAPE pixel lensing survey of M 31 - Evidence for a MACHO contribution to galactic halos    p. 911 S. Calchi Novati, S. Paulin-Henriksson, J. An, P. Baillon, V. Belokurov, B. J. Carr, M. Crézé, N. W. Evans, Y. Giraud-Héraud, A. Gould, et al. (8 more) P. Hewett, Ph. Jetzer, J. Kaplan, E. Kerins, S. J. Smartt, C. S. Stalin, Y. Tsapras and M. J. Weston DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20053135 Abstract Full HTML PDF (980 KB) PS (404 KB) References SIMBAD record NASA ADS Abstract Service

Free access Galactic structure from the Calar Alto Deep Imaging Survey (CADIS)    p. 929 S. Phleps, S. Drepper, K. Meisenheimer and B. Fuchs DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20041393 Abstract Full HTML PDF (962 KB) PS (369 KB) References SIMBAD record NASA ADS Abstract Service

Free access Sub-arcsec imaging of the AB Aur molecular disk and envelope at millimeter wavelengths: a non Keplerian disk    p. 945 V. Piétu, S. Guilloteau and A. Dutrey DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20042050 Abstract Full HTML PDF (606 KB) PS (507 KB) References SIMBAD record NASA ADS Abstract Service

Free access Morphology of synchrotron emission in young supernova remnants    p. 955 G. Cassam-Chenaï, A. Decourchelle, J. Ballet and D. C. Ellison DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20052853 Abstract Full HTML PDF (218 KB) PS (69.8 KB) References Online Material NASA ADS Abstract Service

Free access The dynamical influence of cooling in the envelope of prestellar and protostellar cores    p. 961 P. Lesaffre, A. Belloche, J.-P. Chièze and P. André DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20053388 Abstract Full HTML PDF (651 KB) PS (530 KB) References SIMBAD record NASA ADS Abstract Service

Free access Dependence of the gamma-ray emission from SN 1006 on the astronomical parameters    p. 973 L. T. Ksenofontov, E. G. Berezhko and H. J. Völk DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20053056 Abstract Full HTML PDF (393 KB) PS (110 KB) References SIMBAD record NASA ADS Abstract Service

Free access Electron temperature fluctuations in planetary nebulae    p. 981 A. C. Krabbe and M. V. F. Copetti DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20053274 Abstract Full HTML PDF (509 KB) PS (340 KB) References Online Material SIMBAD record NASA ADS Abstract Service

Free access HS 0139+0559, HS 0229+8016, HS 0506+7725, and HS 0642+5049: four new long-period cataclysmic variables    p. 995 A. Aungwerojwit, B. T. Gänsicke, P. Rodríguez-Gil, H.-J. Hagen, E. T. Harlaftis, C. Papadimitriou, H. Lehto, S. Araujo-Betancor, U. Heber, R. E. Fried, et al. (2 more) D. Engels and S. Katajainen DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20042610 Abstract Full HTML PDF (1.65 MB) PS (1.32 MB) References Online Material SIMBAD record NASA ADS Abstract Service

Free access Metallicity effect in multi-dimensional SNIa nucleosynthesis    p. 1007 C. Travaglio, W. Hillebrandt and M. Reinecke DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20052883 Abstract Full HTML PDF (143 KB) PS (37.6 KB) References NASA ADS Abstract Service

Free access An observational approach to convection in main sequence stars    p. 1013 C. Régulo, H. Vázquez Ramió and T. Roca Cortés DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20053620 Abstract Full HTML PDF (192 KB) PS (54.4 KB) References SIMBAD record NASA ADS Abstract Service

Free access A search for planetary-mass objects and brown dwarfs in the Upper Scorpius association    p. 1021 M. T. Costado, V. J. S. Béjar, J. A. Caballero, R. Rebolo, J. Acosta-Pulido and A. Manchado DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20053048 Abstract Full HTML PDF (384 KB) PS (279 KB) References Online Material SIMBAD record NASA ADS Abstract Service

Free access The magnetic structure of neutron stars and their surface-to-core temperature relation    p. 1025 A. Y. Potekhin, V. Urpin and G. Chabrier DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20053628 Abstract Full HTML PDF (180 KB) PS (44.7 KB) References SIMBAD record NASA ADS Abstract Service

Free access Sulphur abundances in metal-poor stars    p. 1029 A. J. Korn and N. Ryde DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20053569 Abstract Full HTML PDF (137 KB) PS (38.7 KB) References SIMBAD record NASA ADS Abstract Service

Free access Dissipation of Alfvén waves in complex 3D coronal force-free structures    p. 1033 F. Malara, M. F. De Franceschis and P. Veltri DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20042272 Abstract Full HTML PDF (1.12 MB) PS (469 KB) References Online Material NASA ADS Abstract Service

Free access A polarization model for the German Vacuum Tower Telescope from in situ and laboratory measurements    p. 1047 C. Beck, R. Schlichenmaier, M. Collados, L. Bellot Rubio and T. Kentischer DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20052935 Abstract Full HTML PDF (448 KB) PS (177 KB) References Online Material NASA ADS Abstract Service

Free access The HeI abundance in Solar filaments    p. 1055 F. Chiuderi Drago DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20053341 Abstract Full HTML PDF (190 KB) PS (65.0 KB) References NASA ADS Abstract Service

Free access On the size distribution of sunspot groups in the Greenwich sunspot record 1874–1976    p. 1061 I. Baumann and S. K. Solanki DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20053415 Abstract Full HTML PDF (305 KB) PS (661 KB) References NASA ADS Abstract Service

Free access On the orbital evolution of low mass protoplanets in turbulent, magnetised disks    p. 1067 R. P. Nelson DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20042605 Abstract Full HTML PDF (1.35 MB) PS (5.21 MB) References NASA ADS Abstract Service

Free access Robust reconstruction from chopped and nodded images    p. 1087 F. Lenzen, O. Scherzer and S. Schindler DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20053398 Abstract Full HTML PDF (635 KB) PS (100 KB) References SIMBAD record NASA ADS Abstract Service