Off-center explosions of Chandrasekhar-mass white dwarfs: an explanation of super-bright type Ia supernovae?     p. L17 W. Hillebrandt, S. A. Sim, and F. K. Röpke DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20077100 Abstract | Full HTML | PDF (174.0 KB) | PS (90.92 KB) | References | SIMBAD record | NASA ADS Abstract Service

A 0535+26 in the August/September 2005 outburst observed by RXTE and INTEGRAL     p. L21 I. Caballero et al. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20067032 Abstract | Full HTML | PDF (148.8 KB) | PS (80.80 KB) | References | SIMBAD record | NASA ADS Abstract Service

Discovery of a flux-related change of the cyclotron line energy in Hercules X-1     p. L25 R. Staubert, N. I. Shakura, K. Postnov, J. Wilms, R. E. Rothschild, W. Coburn, L. Rodina, and D. Klochkov DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20077098 Abstract | Full HTML | PDF (100.8 KB) | PS (53.58 KB) | References | SIMBAD record | NASA ADS Abstract Service

Highlight (More) Binary star progenitors of long gamma-ray bursts     p. L29 M. Cantiello, S.-C. Yoon, N. Langer, and M. Livio DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20077115 Abstract | Full HTML | PDF (522.5 KB) | PS (247.5 KB) | References | SIMBAD record | NASA ADS Abstract Service

Constraining supernova models using the hot gas in clusters of galaxies     p. 345 J. de Plaa, N. Werner, J. A. M. Bleeker, J. Vink, J. S. Kaastra, and M. Méndez DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20066382 Abstract | Full HTML | PDF (262.1 KB) | PS (561.8 KB) | References | SIMBAD record | NASA ADS Abstract Service

The usage of Strömgren photometry in studies of local group dwarf spheroidal galaxies - Application to Draco: a new catalogue of Draco members and a study of the metallicity distribution function and radial gradients,,     p. 357 D. Faria, S. Feltzing, I. Lundström, G. Gilmore, G. M. Wahlgren, A. Ardeberg, and P. Linde DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20065244 Abstract | Full HTML | PDF (2.504 MB) | PS (673.2 KB) | References | Online Material | SIMBAD record | NASA ADS Abstract Service

Highlight (More) X-ray monitoring of optical novae in M 31 from July 2004 to February 2005     p. 375 W. Pietsch et al. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20066812 Abstract | Full HTML | PDF (932.6 KB) | PS (823.5 KB) | References | Online Material | Tables at CDS | SIMBAD record | NASA ADS Abstract Service

A comparison of LBGs, DRGs, and BzK galaxies: their contribution to the stellar mass density in the GOODS-MUSIC sample     p. 393 A. Grazian et al. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20065989 Abstract | Full HTML | PDF (510.0 KB) | PS (242.1 KB) | References | SIMBAD record | NASA ADS Abstract Service

Free-free absorption in the gravitational lens JVAS B0218+357     p. 405 R. Mittal, R. Porcas, and O. Wucknitz DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20066127 Abstract | Full HTML | PDF (234.4 KB) | PS (318.1 KB) | References | SIMBAD record | NASA ADS Abstract Service

Initial mass function effects on the colour evolution of disk galaxies     p. 417 P. Westera, M. Samland, S. J. Kautsch, R. Buser, and K. Ammon DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20066057 Abstract | Full HTML | PDF (1.907 MB) | PS (2.543 MB) | References | Online Material | NASA ADS Abstract Service

Highlight (More) On the structure of the turbulent interstellar atomic hydrogen - I. Physical characteristics. Influence and nature of turbulence in a thermally bistable flow     p. 431 P. Hennebelle and E. Audit DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20066139 Abstract | Full HTML | PDF (1.318 MB) | PS (1.245 MB) | References | NASA ADS Abstract Service

Highlight (More) On the structure of the turbulent interstellar atomic hydrogen - II. First comparison between observation and theory. Are the characteristics of molecular clouds determined early in the turbulent 2-phase atomic gas?     p. 445 P. Hennebelle, E. Audit, and M.-A. Miville-Deschênes DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20066141 Abstract | Full HTML | PDF (1.532 MB) | PS (729.5 KB) | References | NASA ADS Abstract Service

Arcsecond-resolution 12CO mapping of the yellow hypergiants IRC +10420 and AFGL 2343     p. 457 A. Castro-Carrizo, G. Quintana-Lacaci, V. Bujarrabal, R. Neri, and J. Alcolea DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20066169 Abstract | Full HTML | PDF (787.6 KB) | PS (744.6 KB) | References | SIMBAD record | NASA ADS Abstract Service

A compact dust shell in the symbiotic system HM Sagittae     p. 469 S. Sacuto, O. Chesneau, M. Vannier, and P. Cruzalèbes DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20066642 Abstract | Full HTML | PDF (747.6 KB) | PS (4.879 MB) | References | Online Material | Tables at CDS | SIMBAD record | NASA ADS Abstract Service

HST and VLT observations of the symbiotic star Hen 2–147 - Its nebular dynamics, its Mira variable and its distance     p. 481 M. Santander-García, R. L. M. Corradi, P. A. Whitelock, U. Munari, A. Mampaso, F. Marang, F. Boffi, and M. Livio DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20065875 Abstract | Full HTML | PDF (1.686 MB) | PS (2.499 MB) | References | Online Material | Tables at CDS | SIMBAD record | NASA ADS Abstract Service

Are magnetic hot stars intrinsic X-ray sources?     p. 493 S. Czesla and J. H. H. M. Schmitt DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20065890 Abstract | Full HTML | PDF (152.4 KB) | PS (76.84 KB) | References | SIMBAD record | NASA ADS Abstract Service

The XMM-Newton/INTEGRAL monitoring campaign of IGR J16318-4848     p. 501 A. Ibarra, G. Matt, M. Guainazzi, E. Kuulkers, E. Jiménez-Bailón, J. Rodriguez, F. Nicastro, and R. Walter DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20066225 Abstract | Full HTML | PDF (560.0 KB) | PS (907.7 KB) | References | SIMBAD record | NASA ADS Abstract Service

The asymptotic representation of higher-order g+-modes in stars with a convective core     p. 509 P. Smeyers and A. Moya DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20066209 Abstract | Full HTML | PDF (359.4 KB) | PS (1004 KB) | References | NASA ADS Abstract Service

PSR B2111+46: a test of the inverse Compton scattering model of radio emission     p. 525 H. Zhang, G. J. Qiao, J. L. Han, K. J. Lee, and H. G. Wang DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20066550 Abstract | Full HTML | PDF (825.2 KB) | PS (3.270 MB) | References | SIMBAD record | NASA ADS Abstract Service

Energy release associated with a first-order phase transition in a rotating neutron star core     p. 533 J. L. Zdunik, M. Bejger, P. Haensel, and E. Gourgoulhon DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20066515 Abstract | Full HTML | PDF (425.3 KB) | PS (246.1 KB) | References | NASA ADS Abstract Service

An abundance analysis of a chemically peculiar B star – JL 87     p. 541 A. Ahmad, N. T. Behara, C. S. Jeffery, T. Sahin, and V. M. Woolf DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20066360 Abstract | Full HTML | PDF (595.8 KB) | PS (439.0 KB) | References | Online Material | SIMBAD record | NASA ADS Abstract Service

A procedure for the classification of eclipsing binaries     p. 549 O. Yu. Malkov, E. Oblak, E. A. Avvakumova, and J. Torra DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20066103 Abstract | Full HTML | PDF (153.3 KB) | PS (78.01 KB) | References | SIMBAD record | NASA ADS Abstract Service

Discovery of a coherent 87.65-minute oscillation of the suspected cataclysmic variable NSV 2872 (Aur 2)     p. 557 V. P. Kozhevnikov DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20067018 Abstract | Full HTML | PDF (90.41 KB) | PS (65.95 KB) | NASA ADS Abstract Service

Discovery of X-ray burst triplets in EXO 0748-676     p. 559 L. Boirin, L. Keek, M. Méndez, A. Cumming, J. J. M. In 't Zand, J. Cottam, F. Paerels, and W. H. G. Lewin DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20066204 Abstract | Full HTML | PDF (2.012 MB) | PS (3.434 MB) | References | Online Material | SIMBAD record | NASA ADS Abstract Service

The geometry of PSR B0031-07     p. 575 J. M. Smits, D. Mitra, B. W. Stappers, J. Kuijpers, P. Weltevrede, A. Jessner, and Y. Gupta DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20066292 Abstract | Full HTML | PDF (999.8 KB) | PS (1.554 MB) | References | SIMBAD record | NASA ADS Abstract Service

Lithium abundances in metal-poor stars     p. 587 J. R. Shi, T. Gehren, H. W. Zhang, J. L. Zeng, and G. Zhao DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20066709 Abstract | Full HTML | PDF (172.8 KB) | PS (93.63 KB) | References | SIMBAD record | NASA ADS Abstract Service

A critical test of empirical mass loss formulas applied to individual giants and supergiants     p. 593 K.-P. Schröder and M. Cuntz DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20066633 Abstract | Full HTML | PDF (213.7 KB) | PS (100.2 KB) | References | SIMBAD record | NASA ADS Abstract Service

Stationary parts of an EIT and Moreton wave: a topological model     p. 603 C. Delannée, J.-F. Hochedez, and G. Aulanier DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20065845 Abstract | Full HTML | PDF (6.766 MB) | PS (8.022 MB) | References | NASA ADS Abstract Service

Turbulent propagation of high-energy electrons in a solar coronal loop     p. 613 A. V. Stepanov, T. Yokoyama, K. Shibasaki, and V. F. Melnikov DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20066573 Abstract | Full HTML | PDF (545.2 KB) | PS (471.3 KB) | References | NASA ADS Abstract Service

Hydrogen Hα line polarization in solar flares - Theoretical investigation of atomic polarization by proton beams considering self-consistent NLTE polarized radiative transfer     p. 621 J. Štěpán, P. Heinzel, and S. Sahal-Bréchot DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20066329 Abstract | Full HTML | PDF (267.0 KB) | PS (131.9 KB) | References | NASA ADS Abstract Service

On a long-term dynamics of the magnetised solar tachocline     p. 633 Eun-jin Kim and N. Leprovost DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20066357 Abstract | Full HTML | PDF (159.5 KB) | PS (77.71 KB) | References | NASA ADS Abstract Service

Modelling dications in the diurnal ionosphere of Venus     p. 641 G. Gronoff, J. Lilensten, C. Simon, O. Witasse, R. Thissen, O. Dutuit, and C. Alcaraz DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20065991 Abstract | Full HTML | PDF (131.4 KB) | PS (84.82 KB) | References | NASA ADS Abstract Service

Collisional excitation of doubly deuterated ammonia ND2H by helium     p. 647 L. Machin and E. Roueff DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20066267 Abstract | Full HTML | PDF (105.3 KB) | PS (49.23 KB) | References | SIMBAD record | NASA ADS Abstract Service

Semi-classical Stark broadening calculations of HeI lines in a non-ideal plasma     p. 651 H. Ben Chaouacha, S. Sahal-Bréchot, and N. Ben Nessib DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20066022 Abstract | Full HTML | PDF (466.0 KB) | PS (280.8 KB) | References | NASA ADS Abstract Service

Multipole rates for atomic polarization studies: the case of complex atoms in non-spherically symmetric states colliding with atomic hydrogen     p. 667 S. Sahal-Bréchot, M. Derouich, V. Bommier, and P. S. Barklem DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20066653 Abstract | Full HTML | PDF (140.9 KB) | PS (68.18 KB) | References | NASA ADS Abstract Service

Highlight (More) Measurement of antenna surfaces from in- and out-of-focus beam maps using astronomical sources     p. 679 B. Nikolic, R. E. Hills, and J. S. Richer DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20065603 Abstract | Full HTML | PDF (242.9 KB) | PS (488.0 KB) | References | NASA ADS Abstract Service

Highlight (More) Out-of-focus holography at the Green Bank Telescope     p. 685 B. Nikolic, R. M. Prestage, D. S. Balser, C. J. Chandler, and R. E. Hills DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20065765 Abstract | Full HTML | PDF (371.1 KB) | PS (980.8 KB) | References | SIMBAD record | NASA ADS Abstract Service