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Astronomy & Astrophysics

Vol. 451, No. 2 (May IV 2006)

The warped Milky Way stellar disk as traced by 2MASS M-giants (Momany, Y., et al., p. 523)
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-  Letters
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Encounters of the dust trails of comet 45P/Honda-Mrkos-Pajdusakova with Venus in 2006    p. L5
J. Vaubaillon and A. A. Christou
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20065040
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Detectability of dirty dust grains in brown dwarf atmospheres    p. L9
Ch. Helling, W.-F. Thi, P. Woitke and M. Fridlund
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20064944
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Integrated specific star formation rates of galaxies, groups, and clusters: a continuous upper limit with stellar mass?    p. L13
G. Feulner, U. Hopp and C. S. Botzler
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20065082
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Evidence for precession of the isolated neutron star RX J0720.4-3125    p. L17
F. Haberl, R. Turolla, C. P. De Vries, S. Zane, J. Vink, M. Méndez and F. Verbunt
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20065093
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-  Astrophysical processes
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Twin-peak quasiperiodic oscillations as an internal resonance    p. 377
J. Horák and V. Karas
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20054039
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-  Cosmology (including clusters of galaxies)
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Interacting galaxies and cosmological parameters    p. 387
H. Reboul and J.-P. Cordoni
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20053879
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Weak lensing mass reconstructions of the ESO Distant Cluster Survey    p. 395
D. Clowe, P. Schneider, A. Aragón-Salamanca, M. Bremer, G. De Lucia, C. Halliday, P. Jablonka, B. Milvang-Jensen, R. Pelló, B. Poggianti, et al. (5 more)
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20041787
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The VIMOS-VLT Deep Survey - Luminosity dependence of clustering at z    p. 409
A. Pollo, L. Guzzo, O. Le Fèvre, B. Meneux, A. Cappi, P. Franzetti, A. Iovino, H. J. McCracken, C. Marinoni, G. Zamorani, et al. (39 more)
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20054705
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The cosmic infrared background resolved by Spitzer - Contributions of mid-infrared galaxies to the far-infrared background    p. 417
H. Dole, G. Lagache, J.-L. Puget, K. I. Caputi, N. Fernández-Conde, E. Le Floc'h, C. Papovich, P. G. Pérez-González, G. H. Rieke and M. Blaylock
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20054446
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-  Extragalactic astronomy
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Star-burst regions in the LMC    p. 431
E. Livanou, M. Kontizas, I. Gonidakis, E. Kontizas, F. Maragoudaki, S. Oliver, A. Efstathiou and U. Klein
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20040330
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The intra-night optical variability of the bright BL Lacertae object S5 0716+714    p. 435
F. Montagni, A. Maselli, E. Massaro, R. Nesci, S. Sclavi and M. Maesano
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20053874
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Active galactic nuclei in the mid-IR - Evolution and contribution to the cosmic infrared background    p. 443
I. Matute, F. La Franca, F. Pozzi, C. Gruppioni, C. Lari and G. Zamorani
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20053710
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X-ray spectral properties of active galactic nuclei in the Chandra Deep Field South    p. 457
P. Tozzi, R. Gilli, V. Mainieri, C. Norman, G. Risaliti, P. Rosati, J. Bergeron, S. Borgani, R. Giacconi, G. Hasinger, et al. (5 more)
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20042592
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-  Galactic structure, stellar clusters, and populations
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Confidence limits of evolutionary synthesis models - IV. Moving forward to a probabilistic formulation    p. 475
M. Cerviño and V. Luridiana
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20053283
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The lack of close binaries among hot horizontal branch stars in NGC 6752    p. 499
C. Moni Bidin, S. Moehler, G. Piotto, A. Recio-Blanco, Y. Momany and R. A. Méndez
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20053940
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Outer structure of the Galactic warp and flare: explaining the Canis Major over-density    p. 515
Y. Momany, S. Zaggia, G. Gilmore, G. Piotto, G. Carraro, L. R. Bedin and F. De Angeli
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20054081
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-  Interstellar and circumstellar matter
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A KOSMA 7 deg2 13CO 2–1 and 12CO 3–2 survey of the Perseus cloud - I. Structure analysis    p. 539
K. Sun, C. Kramer, V. Ossenkopf, F. Bensch, J. Stutzki and M. Miller
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20054256
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The effect of uncertainties on chemical models of dark clouds    p. 551
V. Wakelam, E. Herbst and F. Selsis
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20054682
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-  Stellar structure and evolution
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Spectral evolution of the slowest classical nova V723 Cassiopeiae in the decline stage    p. 563
T. Iijima
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20053984
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Accretion torque on magnetized neutron stars    p. 581
H.-L. Dai and X.-D. Li
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20053907
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INTEGRAL survey of the Cassiopeia region in hard X rays    p. 587
P. R. den Hartog, W. Hermsen, L. Kuiper, J. Vink, J. J. M. in 't Zand and W. Collmar
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20054711
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B-type supergiants in the Small Magellanic Cloud: rotational velocities and implications for evolutionary models    p. 603
P. L. Dufton, R. S. I. Ryans, S. Simón-Díaz, C. Trundle and D. J. Lennon
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20054600
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Doppler tomography of the dwarf novae VY Aquari and WX Ceti    p. 613
R. E. Mennickent, E. Unda-Sanzana and C. Tappert
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20064850
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-  Stellar atmospheres
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Oxygen abundances in metal-poor subgiants as determined from [O I], O I and OH lines    p. 621
A. E. García Pérez, M. Asplund, F. Primas, P. E. Nissen and B. Gustafsson
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20053181
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LTE model atmospheres with new opacities - I. Methods and general properties    p. 643
N. T. Behara and C. S. Jeffery
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20053978
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The Hamburg/ESO R-process enhanced star survey (HERES) - III. HE 0338-3945 and the formation of the r + s stars    p. 651
K. Jonsell, P. S. Barklem, B. Gustafsson, N. Christlieb, V. Hill, T. C. Beers and J. Holmberg
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20054470
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Zeeman tomography of magnetic white dwarfs - III. The 70–80 Megagauss magnetic field of PG 1015+014    p. 671
F. Euchner, S. Jordan, K. Beuermann, K. Reinsch and B. T. Gänsicke
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20064840
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-  The Sun
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A statistical study of the characteristics of type II doublet radio bursts    p. 683
K. R. Subramanian and E. Ebenezer
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20054215
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Nobeyama radio heliograph observations of RHESSI microflares    p. 691
M. R. Kundu, E. J. Schmahl, P. C. Grigis, V. I. Garaimov and K. Shibasaki
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20053987
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-  Planets and planetary systems
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First observation of Mars with XMM-Newton - High resolution X-ray spectroscopy with RGS    p. 709
K. Dennerl, C. M. Lisse, A. Bhardwaj, V. Burwitz, J. Englhauser, H. Gunell, M. Holmström, F. Jansen, V. Kharchenko and P. M. Rodríguez-Pascual
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20054253
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-  Atomic, molecular, and nuclear data
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Infrared spectroscopy of solid CO–CO2 mixtures and layers    p. 723
F. A. van Broekhuizen, I. M. N. Groot, H. J. Fraser, E. F. van Dishoeck and S. Schlemmer
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20052942
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-  Online catalogs and data
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The PHEMU97 catalogue of observations of the mutual phenomena of the Galilean satellites of Jupiter    p. 733
J.-E. Arlot, W. Thuillot, C. Ruatti, H. Akasawa, S. Baroni, W. Beisker, J. Berthier, C. Blanco, J. Boonstra, J. Bourgeois, et al. (54 more)
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20054325
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