Astronomy and Astrophysics
	Vol. 494 No. 2 (February I 2009)
Cover illustration: Energetic of the LMC ISM: gas (contours) vs. dust emission (D. Rubin, et al., p. 650)

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Letters

Press release

• Water masers in the Saturnian system     p. L1
  S. V. Pogrebenko, L. I. Gurvits, M. Elitzur, C. B. Cosmovici, I. M. Avruch, S. Montebugnoli, E. Salerno, S. Pluchino, G. Maccaferri, A. Mujunen, J. Ritakari, J. Wagner, G. Molera, and M. Uunila
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• Multi-frequency VLBA study of the blazar S5 0716+714 during the active state in 2004 - I. Inner jet kinematics     p. L5
  E. A. Rastorgueva, K. Wiik, T. Savolainen, L. O. Takalo, E. Valtaoja, Y. N. Vetukhnovskaya, and K. V. Sokolovsky
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• Evidence for an anticorrelation between the duration of the shallow decay phase of GRB X-ray afterglows and redshift     p. L9
  G. Stratta, D. Guetta, V. D'Elia, M. Perri, S. Covino, and L. Stella
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• Cold gas as an ice diagnostic toward low mass protostars     p. L13
  K. I. Öberg, S. Bottinelli, and E. F. van Dishoeck
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• Double mode RR Lyrae stars in Omega Centauri     p. L17
  A. Olech and P. Moskalik
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• The early phase of a H1743-322 outburst observed by INTEGRAL, RXTE, Swift, and XMM/Newton     p. L21
  L. Prat, J. Rodriguez, M. Cadolle Bel, E. Kuulkers, M. Hanke, J. Tomsick, S. Corbel, M. Coriat, J. Wilms, and A. Goldwurm
  Abstract | Full html | PDF file (237.1 KB) | PS file (323.7 KB) | References




• The metallicity of the most distant quasars     p. L25
  Y. Juarez, R. Maiolino, R. Mujica, M. Pedani, S. Marinoni, T. Nagao, A. Marconi, and E. Oliva
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Cosmology (including clusters of galaxies)
• Double relics in Abell 2345 and Abell 1240 - Spectral index and polarization analysis     p. 429
  A. Bonafede, G. Giovannini, L. Feretti, F. Govoni, and M. Murgia
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• The great observatories origins deep survey - VLT/VIMOS spectroscopy in the GOODS-south field     p. 443
  P. Popesso, M. Dickinson, M. Nonino, E. Vanzella, E. Daddi, R. A. E. Fosbury, H. Kuntschner, V. Mainieri, S. Cristiani, C. Cesarsky, M. Giavalisco, A. Renzini, and the GOODS Team
  Abstract | Full html | PDF file (1.467 MB) | PS file (2.549 MB) | References



• Statistics of gravitational potential perturbations: A novel approach to deriving the X-ray temperature function     p. 461
  C. Angrick and M. Bartelmann
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Extragalactic astronomy
• Physical properties of very powerful FRII radio galaxies     p. 471
  C. P. O'Dea, R. A. Daly, P. Kharb, K. A. Freeman, and S. A. Baum
  Abstract | Full html | PDF file (788.4 KB) | PS file (530.9 KB) | References | Online Material



• Kinematic modeling of disk galaxies - III. The warped “Spindle” NGC 2685     p. 489
  G. I. G. Józsa, T. A. Oosterloo, R. Morganti, U. Klein, and T. Erben
  Abstract | Full html | PDF file (2.114 MB) | PS file (6.234 MB) | References



• AGILE observation of a gamma-ray flare from the blazar 3C 279     p. 509
  A. Giuliani, F. D'Ammando, S. Vercellone, V. Vittorini, A. W. Chen, I. Donnarumma, L. Pacciani, G. Pucella, A. Trois, A. Bulgarelli, F. Longo, M. Tavani, G. Tosti, D. Impiombato, A. Argan, G. Barbiellini, F. Boffelli, P. A. Caraveo, P. W. Cattaneo, V. Cocco, E. Costa, E. Del Monte, G. De Paris, G. Di Cocco, Y. Evangelista, M. Feroci, M. Fiorini, F. Fornari, T. Froysland, F. Fuschino, M. Galli, F. Gianotti, C. Labanti, Y. Lapshov, F. Lazzarotto, P. Lipari, M. Marisaldi, S. Mereghetti, A. Morselli, A. Pellizzoni, F. Perotti, P. Picozza, M. Prest, M. Rapisarda, A. Rappoldi, P. Soffitta, M. Trifoglio, E. Vallazza, A. Zambra, D. Zanello, S. Cutini, D. Gasparrini, C. Pittori, B. Preger, P. Santolamazza, F. Verrecchia, P. Giommi, S. Colafrancesco, and L. Salotti
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• VLT/FORS1 spectrophotometry of the first planetary nebula discovered in the Phoenix dwarf galaxy     p. 515
  I. Saviane, K. Exter, Y. Tsamis, C. Gallart, and D. Péquignot
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• Doppler factors, Lorentz factors and viewing angles for quasars, BL Lacertae objects and radio galaxies     p. 527
  T. Hovatta, E. Valtaoja, M. Tornikoski, and A. Lähteenmäki
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• The mass function of young star clusters in spiral galaxies     p. 539
  S. S. Larsen
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• The physical properties of Ly emitting galaxies: not just primeval galaxies?     p. 553
  L. Pentericci, A. Grazian, A. Fontana, M. Castellano, E. Giallongo, S. Salimbeni, and P. Santini
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• Cosmic rays and the magnetic field in the nearby starburst galaxy NGC 253 - I. The distribution and transport of cosmic rays     p. 563
  V. Heesen, R. Beck, M. Krause, and R.-J. Dettmar
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• A multi-wavelength survey of AGN in the XMM-LSS field - I. Quasar selection via the KX technique     p. 579
  Th. Nakos, J. P. Willis, S. Andreon, J. Surdej, P. Riaud, E. Hatziminaoglou, O. Garcet, D. Alloin, M. Baes, G. Galaz, M. Pierre, H. Quintana, M. J. Page, J. A. Tedds, M. T. Ceballos, A. Corral, J. Ebrero, M. Krumpe, and S. Mateos
  Abstract | Full html | PDF file (351.7 KB) | PS file (225.0 KB) | References



Galactic structure, stellar clusters, and populations
• Abundances in the Galactic bulge: results from planetary nebulae and giant stars     p. 591
  C. Chiappini, S. K. Górny, G. Stasińska, and B. Barbuy
  Abstract | Full html | PDF file (742.7 KB) | PS file (615.4 KB) | References | Online Material



Interstellar and circumstellar matter
• WSRT Faraday tomography of the Galactic ISM at ~ 0.86 m - I. The GEMINI data set at (l, b) = (181°, 20°)     p. 611
  D. H. F. M. Schnitzeler, P. Katgert, and A. G. de Bruyn
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• Chemical modeling of L183 (L134N): an estimate of the ortho/para H₂ ratio     p. 623
  L. Pagani, C. Vastel, E. Hugo, V. Kokoouline, C. H. Greene, A. Bacmann, E. Bayet, C. Ceccarelli, R. Peng, and S. Schlemmer
  Abstract | Full html | PDF file (679.1 KB) | PS file (1.126 MB) | References | Online Material



• Water and ammonia abundances in S140 with the Odin satellite     p. 637
  C. M. Persson, M. Olberg, Å. Hjalmarson, M. Spaans, J. H. Black, U. Frisk, T. Liljeström, A. O. H. Olofsson, D. R. Poelman, and Aa. Sandqvist
  Abstract | Full html | PDF file (3.137 MB) | PS file (7.997 MB) | References | Online Material



• A spatially resolved study of photoelectric heating and [C II] cooling in the LMC - Comparison with dust emission as seen by SAGE     p. 647
  D. Rubin, S. Hony, S. C. Madden, A. G. G. M Tielens, M. Meixner, R. Indebetouw, W. Reach, A. Ginsburg, S. Kim, K. Mochizuki, B. Babler, M. Block, S. B. Bracker, C. W. Engelbracht, B.-Q. For, K. Gordon, J. L. Hora, C. Leitherer, M. Meade, K. Misselt, 
M. Sewilo, U. Vijh, and B. Whitney
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Stellar structure and evolution
• Lithium abundances in exoplanet-host stars: modelling     p. 663
  M. Castro, S. Vauclair, O. Richard, and N. C. Santos
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The Sun
• Generation of highly energetic electrons at reconnection outflow shocks during solar flares     p. 669
  G. Mann, A. Warmuth, and H. Aurass
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• Modelling shock drift acceleration of electrons at the reconnection outflow termination shock in solar flares - Observational constraints and parametric study     p. 677
  A. Warmuth, G. Mann, and H. Aurass
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Planets and planetary systems
• New BVRI photometry results on Kuiper Belt Objects from the ESO VLT     p. 693
  P. Santos-Sanz, J. L. Ortiz, L. Barrera, and H. Boehnhardt
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• Investigating the potential of the Pan-Planets project using Monte Carlo simulations     p. 707
  J. Koppenhoefer, C. Afonso, R. P. Saglia, and Th. Henning
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Atomic, molecular, and nuclear data

Research Note

• On the frequency of N₂H⁺ and N₂D⁺     p. 719
  L. Pagani, F. Daniel, and M.-L. Dubernet
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• Breit-Pauli R-matrix calculation of fine-structure effective collision strengths for the electron impact excitation of Mg V     p. 729
  C. E. Hudson, C. A. Ramsbottom, P. H. Norrington, and M. P. Scott
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Astronomical instrumentation


• Automated supervised classification of variable stars - II. Application to the OGLE database     p. 739
  L. M. Sarro, J. Debosscher, M. López, and C. Aerts
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• The complementarity of astrometric and radial velocity exoplanet observations - Determining exoplanet mass with astrometric snapshots     p. 769
  M. Tuomi, S. Kotiranta, and M. Kaasalainen
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• Modelling the spectral response of the Swift-XRT CCD camera: experience learnt from in-flight calibration     p. 775
  O. Godet, A. P. Beardmore, A. F. Abbey, J. P. Osborne, G. Cusumano, C. Pagani, M. Capalbi, M. Perri, K. L. Page, D. N. Burrows, S. Campana, J. E. Hill, J. A. Kennea, and A. Moretti
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Catalogs and data


• The construction of the large quasar astrometric catalogue (LQAC)     p. 799
  J. Souchay, A. H. Andrei, C. Barache, S. Bouquillon, A.-M. Gontier, S. B. Lambert, C. Le Poncin-Lafitte, F. Taris, E. F. Arias, D. Suchet, and M. Baudin
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