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A&A Vol. 484 No. 3

	Astronomy and Astrophysics
	Vol. 484 No. 3 (June IV 2008)
Cover illustration: Polarized intensities in the southern sky (J. C. Testori, et al., p. 740)

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Letters

The intensity contrast of solar granulation: comparing Hinode SP results with MHD simulations p. L17
S. Danilovic, A. Gandorfer, A. Lagg, M. Schüssler, S. K. Solanki, A. Vögler, Y. Katsukawa, and S. Tsuneta
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Chemical similarities between Galactic bulge and local thick disk red giant stars p. L21
J. Meléndez, M. Asplund, A. Alves-Brito, K. Cunha, B. Barbuy, M. S. Bessell, C. Chiappini, K. C. Freeman, I. Ramírez, V. V. Smith, and D. Yong
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Fluorine in carbon-enhanced metal-poor stars: a binary scenario p. L27
M. Lugaro, S. E. de Mink, R. G. Izzard, S. W. Campbell, A. I. Karakas, S. Cristallo, O. R. Pols, J. C. Lattanzio, O. Straniero, R. Gallino, and T. C. Beers
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A possible solution for the lack of EHB binaries in globular clusters p. L31
Z. Han
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Infrared to X-ray observations of PKS 2155-304 in a low state p. L35
L. Foschini, A. Treves, F. Tavecchio, D. Impiombato, G. Ghisellini, S. Covino, G. Tosti, M. Gliozzi, V. Bianchin, G. Di Cocco, G. Malaguti, L. Maraschi, E. Pian, C. M. Raiteri, R. M. Sambruna, G. Tagliaferri, and M. Villata
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Press release

High-resolution double morphology of the most distant known radio quasar at z = 6.12 p. L39
S. Frey, L. I. Gurvits, Z. Paragi, and K. É. Gabányi
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6.7 GHz methanol absorption toward the Seyfert 2 galaxy NGC 3079 p. L43
C. M. V. Impellizzeri, C. Henkel, A. L. Roy, and K. M. Menten
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A new view of quiet-Sun topology from Hinode/SOT p. L47
S. Régnier, C. E. Parnell, and A. L. Haynes
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Cosmology (including clusters of galaxies)

The dynamical state of A548 from XMM-Newton data: X-ray and radio connection p. 621
L. Solovyeva, S. Anokhin, L. Feretti, J. L. Sauvageot, R. Teyssier, G. Giovannini, F. Govoni, and D. Neumann
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Extragalactic astronomy

Modelling the spectral energy distribution of ULIRGs - II. The energetic environment and the dense interstellar medium p. 631
O. Vega, M. S. Clemens, A. Bressan, G. L. Granato, L. Silva, and P. Panuzzo
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Nuclear activity in galaxy pairs: a spectroscopic analysis of 48 UZC-BGPs p. 655
P. Focardi, V. Zitelli, and S. Marinoni
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Searching for mid-IR obscured AGN in the Chandra deep field North p. 671
I. Georgantopoulos, A. Georgakakis, M. Rowan-Robinson, and E. Rovilos
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Formation of $[\alpha/{\rm Fe}]$ radial gradients in the stars of elliptical galaxies p. 679
A. Pipino, A. D'Ercole, and F. Matteucci
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The H I content of the advanced merger NGC 4441 p. 693
E. Manthey, S. Aalto, S. Hüttemeister, and T. A. Oosterloo
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The H $\alpha$ Galaxy survey - V. The star formation history of late-type galaxies p. 703
P. A. James, M. Prescott, and I. K. Baldry
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Star cluster versus field star formation in the nucleus of the prototype starburst galaxy M 82 p. 711
S. Barker, R. de Grijs, and M. Cerviño
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Galactic structure, stellar clusters, and populations

The stellar content of the Hamburg/ESO survey - IV. Selection of candidate metal-poor stars p. 721
N. Christlieb, T. Schörck, A. Frebel, T. C. Beers, L. Wisotzki, and D. Reimers
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Interstellar and circumstellar matter

A fully sampled $\lambda$ 21 cm linear polarization survey of the southern sky p. 733
J. C. Testori, P. Reich, and W. Reich
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Galactic fountains and their connection with high and intermediate velocity clouds p. 743
E. Spitoni, S. Recchi, and F. Matteucci
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Optical and near-infrared recombination lines of oxygen ions from Cassiopeia A knots p. 755
D. Docenko and R. A. Sunyaev
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A new probe of magnetic fields during high-mass star formation - Zeeman splitting of 6.7 GHz methanol masers p. 773
W. H. T. Vlemmings
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Stellar structure and evolution

Press release

Multi-wavelength observations of Galactic hard X-ray sources discovered by INTEGRAL - I. The nature of the companion star p. 783
S. Chaty, F. Rahoui, C. Foellmi, J. A. Tomsick, J. Rodriguez, and R. Walter
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Press release

Multi-wavelength observations of Galactic hard X-ray sources discovered by INTEGRAL - II. The environment of the companion star p. 801
F. Rahoui, S. Chaty, P.-O. Lagage, and E. Pantin
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Scaled solar tracks and isochrones in a large region of the Z-Y plane - I. From the ZAMS to the TP-AGB end for 0.15-2.5 ${M}_{\odot}$ stars p. 815
G. Bertelli, L. Girardi, P. Marigo, and E. Nasi
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Gamma-ray bursts from tidally spun-up Wolf-Rayet stars? p. 831
R. G. Detmers, N. Langer, Ph. Podsiadlowski, and R. G. Izzard
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The Sun

The solar photospheric abundance of europium - Results from CO5BOLD 3D hydrodynamical model atmospheres p. 841
A. Mucciarelli, E. Caffau, B. Freytag, H.-G. Ludwig, and P. Bonifacio
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Influence of the Hall effect on the reconnection rate at line-tied magnetic X-points p. 847
I. J. D. Craig and Y. E. Litvinenko
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Analytic approximate seismology of transversely oscillating coronal loops p. 851
M. Goossens, I. Arregui, J. L. Ballester, and T. J. Wang
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Planets and planetary systems

Numerical determination of the material properties of porous dust cakes p. 859
D. Paszun and C. Dominik
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Celestial mechanics and astrometry

An analysis of Bordeaux meridian transit circle observations of planets and satellites (1997-2007) p. 869
J. E. Arlot, G. Dourneau, and J. F. Le Campion
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Atomic, molecular, and nuclear data

Radiative rates and electron impact excitation rates for H-like Fe XXVI p. 879
K. M. Aggarwal, K. Hamada, A. Igarashi, V. Jonauskas, F. P. Keenan, and S. Nakazaki
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Astronomical instrumentation

Direct determination of astronomical distances and proper motions by interferometric parallax p. 887
P. Jain and J. P. Ralston
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Catalogs and data

New active galactic nuclei detected in ROSAT All Sky Survey galaxies - II. The complete dataset p. 897
W. Kollatschny, R. Kotulla, W. Pietsch, K. Bischoff, and M. Zetzl
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