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Astronomy and Astrophysics

Vol. 468, No. 3 (June IV 2007)

Aerial view of the IRAM Plateau de Bure interferometer (B. Rossini) See our special feature on the IRAM/Plateau de Bure interferometer (pp. L29-L76)

Extended baselines for the IRAM Plateau de Bure interferometer: First results

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Editorial
EDITORIAL     p. E5
M. Walmsley and C. Bertout
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20077417
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PdBI sub-arcsecond study of the SiO microjet in HH212 - Origin and collimation of class 0 jets     p. L29
S. Cabrit, C. Codella, F. Gueth, B. Nisini, A. Gusdorf, C. Dougados, and F. Bacciotti
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20077387
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The IC1396N proto-cluster at a scale of ~250 AU     p. L33
R. Neri, A. Fuente, C. Ceccarelli, P. Caselli, D. Johnstone, E. F. van Dishoeck, F. Wyrowski, M. Tafalla, B. Lefloch, and R. Plume
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20077320
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Protostellar clusters in intermediate mass (IM) star forming regions     p. L37
A. Fuente, C. Ceccarelli, R. Neri, T. Alonso-Albi, P. Caselli, D. Johnstone, E. F. van Dishoeck, and F. Wyrowski
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20077297
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Minkowski's footprint revisited - Planetary nebula formation from a single sudden event?     p. L41
J. Alcolea, R. Neri, and V. Bujarrabal
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20066956
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The nebula around the post-AGB star 89 Herculis     p. L45
V. Bujarrabal, H. Van Winckel, R. Neri, J. Alcolea, A. Castro-Carrizo, and P. Deroo
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20066969
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Jet-disturbed molecular gas near the Seyfert 2 nucleus in M 51     p. L49
S. Matsushita, S. Muller, and J. Lim
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20067039
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Distribution of the molecular absorption in front of the quasar B0218+357     p. L53
S. Muller, M. Guélin, F. Combes, and T. Wiklind
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20077310
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Black hole in the West nucleus of Arp 220     p. L57
D. Downes and A. Eckart
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20077301
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Molecular gas in NUclei of GAlaxies (NUGA): VI. Detection of a molecular gas disk/torus via HCN in the Seyfert 2 galaxy NGC 6951?     p. L63
M. Krips et al.
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20066785
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Sub-arcsecond CO(1–0) and CO(2–1) observations of the ultraluminous infrared galaxy IRAS 10190+1322     p. L67
J. Graciá-Carpio, P. Planesas, and L. Colina
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20077448
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Fueling the central engine of radio galaxies - I. The molecular/dusty disk of 4C 31.04     p. L71
S. García-Burillo, F. Combes, R. Neri, A. Fuente, A. Usero, S. Leon, and J. Lim
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20077599
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-  Astrophysical processes
The double Compton emissivity in a mildly relativistic thermal plasma within the soft photon limit     p. 785
J. Chluba, S. Yu. Sazonov, and R. A. Sunyaev
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20066701
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A generalized -law - The role of unphysical source terms in resonance line polarization transfer and its importance as an additional test of NLTE radiative transfer codes     p. 797
J. Štěpán and V. Bommier
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20066507
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Jeans instability of a galactic disk embedded in a live dark halo     p. 803
O. Esquivel and B. Fuchs
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20077372
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-  Cosmology (including clusters of galaxies)
A galaxy overdensity at z = 0.401 associated with an X-ray emitting structure of warm-hot intergalactic medium     p. 807
F. Mannucci, G. Bonnoli, L. Zappacosta, R. Maiolino, and M. Pedani
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20066591
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The kinematics of intracluster planetary nebulae and the on-going subcluster merger in the Coma cluster core     p. 815
O. Gerhard, M. Arnaboldi, K. C. Freeman, S. Okamura, N. Kashikawa, and N. Yasuda
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20066484
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Cosmic shear analysis of archival HST/ACS data - I. Comparison of early ACS pure parallel data to the HST/GEMS survey     p. 823
T. Schrabback et al.
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20065898
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Possible non-thermal nature of the soft-excess emission in the cluster of galaxies Sérsic 159-03     p. 849
N. Werner, J. S. Kaastra, Y. Takei, R. Lieu, J. Vink, and T. Tamura
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20077211
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GaBoDS: The Garching-Bonn deep survey - VII. Cosmic shear analysis     p. 859
M. Hetterscheidt, P. Simon, M. Schirmer, H. Hildebrandt, T. Schrabback, T. Erben, and P. Schneider
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20065885
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-  Extragalactic astronomy
High-redshift Lyα emitters with a large equivalent width - Properties of i-dropout galaxies with an NB921-band depression in the Subaru deep field     p. 877
T. Nagao et al.
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20066177
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Multi-wavelength study of the gravitational lens system RXS J1131-1231 - III. Long slit spectroscopy: micro-lensing probes the QSO structure     p. 885
D. Sluse, J.-F. Claeskens, D. Hutsemékers, and J. Surdej
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20066821
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Kinematic modelling of disk galaxies - II. A case-study of symmetrically warped galaxy disks     p. 903
G. I. G. Józsa
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20066165
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Gamma-ray absorption method (GRAM) application to the identification of EGRET unidentified sources     p. 919
A. F. Iyudin, V. Burwitz, J. Greiner, S. Larsson, and A. Küpcü Yoldas
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20066890
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Effects of the galactic winds on the stellar metallicity distribution of dwarf spheroidal galaxies     p. 927
G. A. Lanfranchi and F. Matteucci
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20066576
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Morphological evolution of z ~ 1 galaxies from deep K-band AO imaging in the COSMOS deep field     p. 937
M. Huertas-Company, D. Rouan, G. Soucail, O. Le Fèvre, L. Tasca, and T. Contini
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20066673
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Kinematics of diffuse ionized gas in the disk halo interface of NGC 891 from Fabry-Pérot observations     p. 951
P. Kamphuis, R. F. Peletier, R.-J. Dettmar, J. M. van der Hulst, P. C. van der Kruit, and R. J. Allen
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20066989
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Multi-epoch VLBA observations of 3C 66A     p. 963
H.-B. Cai, Z.-Q. Shen, H. Sudou, L.-L. Shang, S. Iguchi, Y. Murata, Y. Taniguchi, K. Wakamatsu, and H. Takaba
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20077155
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The blue plume population in dwarf spheroidal galaxies - Genuine blue stragglers or young stellar population?     p. 973
Y. Momany, E. V. Held, I. Saviane, S. Zaggia, L. Rizzi, and M. Gullieuszik
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20067024
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Dust covering factor, silicate emission, and star formation in luminous QSOs     p. 979
R. Maiolino, O. Shemmer, M. Imanishi, H. Netzer, E. Oliva, D. Lutz, and E. Sturm
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20077252
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-  Galactic structure, stellar clusters, and populations
The distance and neutral environment of the massive stellar cluster Westerlund 1     p. 993
R. Kothes and S. M. Dougherty
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20077309
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-  Interstellar and circumstellar matter
A multiwavelength study of the ultracompact HII region associated with IRAS 20178+4046     p. 1001
A. Tej, S. K. Ghosh, V. K. Kulkarni, D. K. Ojha, R. P. Verma, and S. Vig
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20066462
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Star formation in Perseus - II. SEDs, classification, and lifetimes     p. 1009
J. Hatchell, G. A. Fuller, J. S. Richer, T. J. Harries, and E. F. Ladd
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20066466
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-  Stellar structure and evolution
Self-consistent theory of turbulent transport in the solar tachocline - III. Gravity waves     p. 1025
Eun-jin Kim and N. Leprovost
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20065971
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Detection of solar-like oscillations in the red giant star ϵ Ophiuchi by MOST spacebased photometry     p. 1033
C. Barban et al.
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20066716
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Rotational period of GQ Lupi     p. 1039
C. Broeg, T. O. B. Schmidt, E. Guenther, A. Gaedke, A. Bedalov, R. Neuhäuser, and F. M. Walter
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20066793
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Dust and gas emission in the prototypical hot core G29.96–0.02 at sub-arcsecond resolution     p. 1045
H. Beuther, Q. Zhang, E. A. Bergin, T. K. Sridharan, T. R. Hunter, and S. Leurini
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20066954
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Abell 43: longest period planetary nebula nucleus variable     p. 1057
J.-E. Solheim, G. Vauclair, A. S. Mukadam, R. Janulis, and V. Dobrovolskas
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20077364
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-  Stellar atmospheres
Fourier method of determining the rotational velocities in OB stars     p. 1063
S. Simón-Díaz and A. Herrero
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20066060
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-  The Sun
Generation of a secondary shock wave during the oblique collision between a current sheet and a fast magnetosonic shock wave     p. 1075
J. I. Sakai and Y. Tanaka
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20066977
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Rapid rotation of a sunspot associated with flares     p. 1083
X. L. Yan and Z. Q. Qu
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20077064
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Upper limits on the solar-neutron flux at the Yangbajing neutron monitor from BATSE-detected solar flares     p. 1089
H. Tsuchiya et al.
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20066680
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Electron acceleration in a post-flare decimetric continuum source     p. 1099
P. Subramanian, S. M. White, M. Karlický, R. Sych, H. S. Sawant, and S. Ananthakrishnan
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20077341
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Flare productivity of newly-emerged paired and isolated solar active regions     p. 1103
S. Dalla, L. Fletcher, and N. A. Walton
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20077177
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-  Planets and planetary systems
Polarimetric observations of Hungaria asteroids     p. 1109
R. Gil-Hutton, D. Lazzaro, and P. Benavidez
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20077178
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-  Atomic, molecular, and nuclear data
A new list of thorium and argon spectral lines in the visible     p. 1115
C. Lovis and F. Pepe
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20077249
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Rotational excitation and de-excitation of PN molecules by He atoms     p. 1123
R. Toboła, J. Kłos, F. Lique, G. Chałasiński, and M. H. Alexander
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20077339
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