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Astronomy & Astrophysics

Vol. 541 (May 2012)

Models of Betelgeuse's bow shock at different inclinations (Mohamed, S., et al., 541, A1)
 
Recent galactic orbit of the open cluster NGC 6791 (Jilkova, L., et al., 541, A64)
 
Optical/infrared image of the Carina Nebula (Preibisch, T., et al., 541, A132)
 
Tidally induced displacement in a solid planetary interior (Remus, F., et al., 541, A165)


-  Letters
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Zooming in on Supernova 1987A at submillimetre wavelengths    L1
M. Lakićević, J. Th. van Loon, T. Stanke, C. De Breuck and F. Patat
Published online: 23 April 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201118661

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The remnant of supernova 1987A resolved at 3-mm wavelength    L2
M. Lakićević, G. Zanardo, J. Th. van Loon, L. Staveley-Smith, T. Potter, C.-Y. Ng and B. M. Gaensler
Published online: 23 April 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201218902

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Observations of infrared echoes around Cassiopeia A with WISE    L3
M.-A. Besel and O. Krause
Published online: 18 April 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201219082

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Quantifying the coherent outflows of galaxies around voids in the SDSS DR7    L4
S. G. Patiri, J. Betancort-Rijo and F. Prada
Published online: 18 April 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201219036

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Herschel/SPIRE observations of the dusty disk of NGC 4244    L5
B. W. Holwerda, S. Bianchi, T. Böker, D. Radburn-Smith, R. S. de Jong, M. Baes, P. C. van der Kruit, M. Xilouris, K. D. Gordon and J. J. Dalcanton
Published online: 26 April 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201118615

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“TNOs are Cool”: A survey of the trans-Neptunian region - VII. Size and surface characteristics of (90377) Sedna and 2010 EK139    L6
A. Pál, C. Kiss, T. G. Müller, P. Santos-Sanz, E. Vilenius, N. Szalai, M. Mommert, E. Lellouch, M. Rengel, P. Hartogh, et al. (7 more)
Published online: 4 May 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201218874

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Cold and warm molecular gas in the outflow of 4C 12.50    L7
K. M. Dasyra and F. Combes
Published online: 11 May 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201219229

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A hydrodynamical model of the circumstellar bubble created by two massive stars    L8
A. J. van Marle, Z. Meliani and A. Marcowith
Published online: 15 May 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201219180

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VLTI/AMBER observations of the Seyfert nucleus of NGC 3783    L9
G. Weigelt, K.-H. Hofmann, M. Kishimoto, S. Hönig, D. Schertl, A. Marconi, F. Millour, R. Petrov, D. Fraix-Burnet, F. Malbet, et al. (2 more)
Published online: 16 May 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201219213

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[C ii] 158 μm line detection of the warm ionized medium in the Scutum-Crux spiral arm tangency    L10
T. Velusamy, W. D. Langer, J. L. Pineda and P. F. Goldsmith
Published online: 17 May 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201219303

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Detection of the hydroperoxyl radical HO2 toward ρ Ophiuchi A - Additional constraints on the water chemical network    L11
B. Parise, P. Bergman and F. Du
Published online: 22 May 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201219379

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Detection of complex organic molecules in a prestellar core: a new challenge for astrochemical models    L12
A. Bacmann, V. Taquet, A. Faure, C. Kahane and C. Ceccarelli
Published online: 24 May 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201219207



-  Astrophysical processes
Open Access

Fast transition of type-B quasi-periodic oscillation in the black hole transient XTE J1817-330    A6
K. Sriram, A. R. Rao and C. S. Choi
Published online: 18 April 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201218799

Morphological and spectral properties of the W51 region measured with the MAGIC telescopes    A13
J. Aleksić, E. A. Alvarez, L. A. Antonelli, P. Antoranz, M. Asensio, M. Backes, U. Barres de Almeida, J. A. Barrio, D. Bastieri, J. Becerra González, et al. (149 more)
Published online: 19 April 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201218846

Force-free pulsar magnetosphere: instability and generation of magnetohydrodynamic waves    A117
V. Urpin
Published online: 10 May 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201219035

Timing properties of gamma-ray bursts detected by SPI-ACS detector onboard INTEGRAL    A122
V. Savchenko, A. Neronov and T. J.-L. Courvoisier
Published online: 11 May 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201218877

The angular momentum transport by standard MRI in quasi-Kepler cylindrical Taylor-Couette flows    A124
M. Gellert, G. Rüdiger and M. Schultz
Published online: 11 May 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201117892

Accretion and structure of radiating disks    A128
P. Mach and E. Malec
Published online: 11 May 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201015755

Recent evaluation of the 7Li(p, α)4He reaction rate at astrophysical energies via the Trojan Horse method    A158
L. Lamia, C. Spitaleri, M. La Cognata, S. Palmerini and R. G. Pizzone
Published online: 22 May 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201219014



-  Cosmology (including clusters of galaxies)
The gas distribution in the outer regions of galaxy clusters    A57
D. Eckert, F. Vazza, S. Ettori, S. Molendi, D. Nagai, E. T. Lau, M. Roncarelli, M. Rossetti, S. L. Snowden and F. Gastaldello
Published online: 27 April 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201118281

The triggering probability of radio-loud AGN - A comparison of high and low excitation radio galaxies in hosts of different colors    A62
R. M. J. Janssen, H. J. A. Röttgering, P. N. Best and J. Brinchmann
Published online: 30 April 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201219052

QSO 0347-383 and the invariance of mp/me in the course of cosmic time    A69
M. Wendt and P. Molaro
Published online: 30 April 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201218862

True cosmic microwave background power spectrum estimation    A74
P. Paykari, J.-L. Starck and M. J. Fadili
Published online: 1 May 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201118207

A brief analysis of self-gravitating polytropic models with a non-zero cosmological constant    A84
M. Merafina, G. S. Bisnovatyi-Kogan and S. O. Tarasov
Published online: 3 May 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201118130

Constraining cosmic rays and magnetic fields in the Perseus galaxy cluster with TeV observations by the MAGIC telescopes    A99
J. Aleksić, E. A. Alvarez, L. A. Antonelli, P. Antoranz, M. Asensio, M. Backes, U. Barres de Almeida, J. A. Barrio, D. Bastieri, J. Becerra González, et al. (153 more)
Published online: 10 May 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201118502

Type Ia supernova parameter estimation: a comparison of two approaches using current datasets    A110
B. L. Lago, M. O. Calvão, S. E. Jorás, R. R. R. Reis, I. Waga and R. Giostri
Published online: 11 May 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201118599

Modeling of weak-lensing statistics - I. Power spectrum and bispectrum    A161
P. Valageas, M. Sato and T. Nishimichi
Published online: 23 May 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201118549

Modeling of weak-lensing statistics - II. Configuration-space statistics    A162
P. Valageas, M. Sato and T. Nishimichi
Published online: 23 May 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201118587



-  Extragalactic astronomy
Herschel/PACS spectroscopy of NGC 4418 and Arp 220: H2O, H218O, OH, 18OH, O I, HCN, and NH3    A4
E. González-Alfonso, J. Fischer, J. Graciá-Carpio, E. Sturm, S. Hailey-Dunsheath, D. Lutz, A. Poglitsch, A. Contursi, H. Feuchtgruber, S. Veilleux, et al. (7 more)
Published online: 18 April 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201118029

AKARI near-infrared spectroscopy of the aromatic and aliphatic hydrocarbon emission features in the galactic superwind of M 82    A10
M. Yamagishi, H. Kaneda, D. Ishihara, T. Kondo, T. Onaka, T. Suzuki and Y. C. Minh
Published online: 18 April 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201218904

Integral field spectroscopy based Hα sizes of local luminous and ultraluminous infrared galaxies - A direct comparison with high-z massive star-forming galaxies    A20
S. Arribas, L. Colina, A. Alonso-Herrero, F. F. Rosales-Ortega, A. Monreal-Ibero, M. García-Marín, S. García-Burillo and J. Rodríguez-Zaurín
Published online: 23 April 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201118007

Spectroscopic constraints on the form of the stellar cluster mass function    A25
N. Bastian, I. S. Konstantopoulos, G. Trancho, D. R. Weisz, S. S. Larsen, M. Fouesneau, C. B. Kaschinski and M. Gieles
Published online: 23 April 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201219079

Seyfert’s Sextet: where is the gas?    A28
S. Tamburri, G. Trinchieri, A. Wolter, J. Sulentic, A. Durbala and M. Rosado
Published online: 24 April 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201118758

Very hard gamma-ray emission from a flare of Mrk 501    A31
A. Neronov, D. Semikoz and A. M. Taylor
Published online: 24 April 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201117083

Manganese in dwarf spheroidal galaxies    A45
P. North, G. Cescutti, P. Jablonka, V. Hill, M. Shetrone, B. Letarte, B. Lemasle, K. A. Venn, G. Battaglia, E. Tolstoy, et al. (3 more)
Published online: 26 April 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201118636

Herschel-PACS far-infrared detections of Lyman-α emitters at 2.0 ≲ z ≲ 3.5    A65
I. Oteo, A. Bongiovanni, A. M. Pérez García, J. Cepa, A. Ederoclite, M. Sánchez-Portal, I. Pintos-Castro, R. Pérez-Martínez, S. Berta, B. Magnelli, et al. (16 more)
Published online: 30 April 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201016261

The stellar masses and specific star-formation rates of submillimetre galaxies    A85
M. J. Michałowski, J. S. Dunlop, M. Cirasuolo, J. Hjorth, C. C. Hayward and D. Watson
Published online: 3 May 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201016308

A tidal disruption-like X-ray flare from the quiescent galaxy SDSS J120136.02+300305.5    A106
R. D. Saxton, A. M. Read, P. Esquej, S. Komossa, S. Dougherty, P. Rodriguez-Pascual and D. Barrado
Published online: 10 May 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201118367

VLT/X-shooter observations of blue compact galaxies Haro 11 and ESO 338-IG 004    A115
N. G. Guseva, Y. I. Izotov, K. J. Fricke and C. Henkel
Published online: 10 May 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201118742

AGN-host galaxy connection: morphology and colours of X-ray selected AGN at z ≤ 2    A118
M. Pović, M. Sánchez-Portal, A. M. Pérez García, A. Bongiovanni, J. Cepa, M. Huertas-Company, M. A. Lara-López, M. Fernández Lorenzo, A. Ederoclite, E. Alfaro, et al. (4 more)
Published online: 10 May 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201117314

Gravitational wave background from Population III binaries    A120
I. Kowalska, T. Bulik and K. Belczynski
Published online: 10 May 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201118604

A close look at the Centaurus A group of galaxies - IV. Recent star formation histories of late-type dwarfs around CenA    A131
D. Crnojević, E. K. Grebel and A. A. Cole
Published online: 14 May 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201218898

Isotropic dynamical models of NGC 4472 (M 49)    A138
S. Samurović
Published online: 15 May 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201118704

Multiwavelength study of the TeV blazar Mrk 421 during a giant flare    A140
A. Shukla, V. R. Chitnis, P. R. Vishwanath, B. S. Acharya, G. C. Anupama, P. Bhattacharjee, R. J. Britto, T. P. Prabhu, L. Saha and B. B. Singh
Published online: 16 May 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201118569



-  Galactic structure, stellar clusters and populations
Discovery of VHE emission towards the Carina arm region with the H.E.S.S. telescope array: HESS J1018–589    A5
H.E.S.S. Collaboration, A. Abramowski, F. Acero, F. Aharonian, A. G. Akhperjanian, G. Anton, A. Balzer, A. Barnacka, Y. Becherini, J. Becker, et al. (184 more)
Published online: 18 April 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201218843

The double sub-giant branch of NGC 6656 (M 22): a chemical characterization    A15
A. F. Marino, A. P. Milone, C. Sneden, M. Bergemann, R. P. Kraft, G. Wallerstein, S. Cassisi, A. Aparicio, M. Asplund, R. L. Bedin, et al. (7 more)
Published online: 20 April 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201118381

The origin and orbit of the old, metal-rich, open cluster NGC 6791 - Insights from kinematics    A64
L. Jílková, G. Carraro, B. Jungwiert and I. Minchev
Published online: 30 April 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201117347

Discovery of a young and massive stellar cluster - Spectrophotometric near-infrared study of Masgomas-1    A75
S. Ramírez Alegría, A. Marín-Franch and A. Herrero
Published online: 1 May 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201118273

C and N abundances of main sequence and subgiant branch stars in NGC 1851    A141
C. Lardo, A. P. Milone, A. F. Marino, A. Mucciarelli, E. Pancino, M. Zoccali, M. Rejkuba, R. Carrera and O. Gonzalez
Published online: 16 May 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201118763


Stellar substructures in the solar neighbourhood - I. Kinematic group 3 in the Geneva-Copenhagen survey    A157
E. Stonkutė, G. Tautvaišienė, B. Nordström and R. Ženovienė
Published online: 22 May 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201118760



-  Interstellar and circumstellar matter
3D simulations of Betelgeuse’s bow shock    A1
S. Mohamed, J. Mackey and N. Langer
Published online: 18 April 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201118002

Galactic cold cores - III. General cloud properties    A12
M. Juvela, I. Ristorcelli, L. Pagani, Y. Doi, V.-M. Pelkonen, D. J. Marshall, J.-P. Bernard, E. Falgarone, J. Malinen, G. Marton, et al. (8 more)
Published online: 19 April 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201118640

Kinematics and the origin of the internal structures in HL Tauri jet (HH 151)    A16
T. A. Movsessian, T. Yu. Magakian and A. V. Moiseev
Published online: 20 April 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201118529

The long-period Galactic Cepheid RS Puppis - II. 3D structure and mass of the nebula from VLT/FORS polarimetry    A18
P. Kervella, A. Mérand, L. Szabados, W. B. Sparks, R. J. Havlen, H. E. Bond, E. Pompei, P. Fouqué, D. Bersier and M. Cracraft
Published online: 20 April 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201117674

Evolution of dust in the Orion Bar with Herschel - I. Radiative transfer modelling    A19
H. Arab, A. Abergel, E. Habart, J. Bernard-Salas, H. Ayasso, K. Dassas, P. G. Martin and G. J. White
Published online: 23 April 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201118537

Temperature and kinematics of protoclusters with intermediate and high-mass stars: the case of IRAS 05345+3157    A32
F. Fontani, P. Caselli, Q. Zhang, J. Brand, G. Busquet and Aina Palau
Published online: 24 April 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201118153

The degeneracy between the dust colour temperature and the spectral index - The problem of multiple χ2 minima    A33
M. Juvela and N. Ysard
Published online: 24 April 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201118596

Bridging the gap: disk formation in the Class 0 phase with ambipolar diffusion and Ohmic dissipation    A35
Wolf B. Dapp, Shantanu Basu and Matthew W. Kunz
Published online: 24 April 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201117876

SiO maser emission from red supergiants across the Galaxy - I. Targets in massive star clusters    A36
L. Verheyen, M. Messineo and K. M. Menten
Published online: 24 April 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201118265

Subarcsecond resolution observations of warm water toward three deeply embedded low-mass protostars    A39
M. V. Persson, J. K. Jørgensen and E. F. van Dishoeck
Published online: 25 April 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201117917

EVN observations of 6.7 GHz methanol maser polarization in massive star-forming regions    A47
G. Surcis, W. H. T. Vlemmings, H. J. van Langevelde and B. Hutawarakorn Kramer
Published online: 26 April 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201118658

Interstellar polarization and grain alignment: the role of iron and silicon    A52
N. V. Voshchinnikov, Th. Henning, M. S. Prokopjeva and H. K. Das
Published online: 26 April 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201117763

Ultraviolet extinction toward a quiescent molecular cloud in the Small Magellanic Cloud    A54
J. Maíz Apellániz and M. Rubio
Published online: 27 April 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201118712


Imaging diffuse clouds: bright and dark gas mapped in CO    A58
H. S. Liszt and J. Pety
Published online: 27 April 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201218771

The Pipe Nebula as seen with Herschel: formation of filamentary structures by large-scale compression?    A63
N. Peretto, Ph. André, V. Könyves, N. Schneider, D. Arzoumanian, P. Palmeirim, P. Didelon, M. Attard, J. P. Bernard, J. Di Francesco, et al. (13 more)
Published online: 30 April 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201118663

The dusty environment of HD 97300 as seen by Herschel and Spitzer    A71
Á. Kóspál, T. Prusti, N. L. J. Cox, G. L. Pilbratt, Ph. André, C. Alves de Oliveira, E. Winston, B. Merín, A. Ribas, P. Royer, et al. (2 more)
Published online: 1 May 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201218823

Milliarcsecond structure of water maser emission in two young high-mass stellar objects associated with methanol masers    A72
A. Bartkiewicz, M. Szymczak and H. J. van Langevelde
Published online: 1 May 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201218999

Multi-line detection of O2 toward ρ Ophiuchi A    A73
R. Liseau, P. F. Goldsmith, B. Larsson, L. Pagani, P. Bergman, J. Le Bourlot, T. A. Bell, A. O. Benz, E. A. Bergin, P. Bjerkeli, et al. (29 more)
Published online: 1 May 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201118575

Surface chemistry in the interstellar medium - I. H2 formation by Langmuir-Hinshelwood and Eley-Rideal mechanisms    A76
J. Le Bourlot, F. Le Petit, C. Pinto, E. Roueff and F. Roy
Published online: 1 May 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201118126


The JCMT 12CO(3–2) survey of the Cygnus X region - I. A pathfinder    A79
M. Gottschalk, R. Kothes, H. E. Matthews, T. L. Landecker and W. R. F. Dent
Published online: 1 May 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201118600

The warm gas atmosphere of the HD 100546 disk seen by Herschel - Evidence of a gas-rich, carbon-poor atmosphere?    A91
S. Bruderer, E. F. van Dishoeck, S. D. Doty and G. J. Herczeg
Published online: 4 May 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201118218

Probing the anomalous extinction of four young star clusters: the use of colour-excess, main-sequence fitting and fractal analysis    A95
B. Fernandes, J. Gregorio-Hetem and A. Hetem Jr.
Published online: 7 May 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201117677

Near-infrared interferometric observation of the Herbig Ae star HD 144432 with VLTI/AMBER    A104
L. Chen, A. Kreplin, Y. Wang, G. Weigelt, K.-H. Hofmann, S. Kraus, D. Schertl, S. Lagarde, A. Natta, R. Petrov, et al. (2 more)
Published online: 10 May 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201218818

Molecular chemistry and the missing mass problem in planetary nebulae    A112
R. K. Kimura, R. Gruenwald and I. Aleman
Published online: 10 May 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201118429

Ionization structure and chemical abundances of the Wolf-Rayet nebula NGC 6888 with integral field spectroscopy    A119
A. Fernández-Martín, D. Martín-Gordón, J. M. Vílchez, E. Pérez Montero, A. Riera and S. F. Sánchez
Published online: 10 May 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201118421

The quest for complex molecules in space: laboratory spectroscopy of n-butyl cyanide, n-C4H9CN, in the millimeter wave region and its astronomical search in Sagittarius B2(N)    A121
M. H. Ordu, H. S. P. Müller, A. Walters, M. Nuñez, F. Lewen, A. Belloche, K. M. Menten and S. Schlemmer
Published online: 11 May 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201118738

Cosmic-ray-induced ionization in molecular clouds adjacent to supernova remnants - Tracing the hadronic origin of GeV gamma radiation    A126
F. Schuppan, J. K. Becker, J. H. Black and S. Casanova
Published online: 14 May 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201218849

Herschel far-infrared observations of the Carina Nebula complex - I. Introduction and global cloud structure    A132
T. Preibisch, V. Roccatagliata, B. Gaczkowski and T. Ratzka
Published online: 14 May 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201218851

Multiwavelength campaign on Mrk 509 - IX. The Galactic foreground    A147
C. Pinto, G. A. Kriss, J. S. Kaastra, E. Costantini, J. Ebrero, K. C. Steenbrugge, M. Mehdipour and G. Ponti
Published online: 17 May 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201118679

A peculiar class of debris disks from Herschel/DUNES - A steep fall off in the far infrared    A148
S. Ertel, S. Wolf, J. P. Marshall, C. Eiroa, J.-C. Augereau, A. V. Krivov, T. Löhne, O. Absil, D. Ardila, M. Arévalo, et al. (14 more)
Published online: 22 May 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201118077

A population of isolated hard X-ray sources near the supernova remnant Kes 69    A152
F. Bocchino, A. M. Bykov, Y. Chen, A. M. Krassilchtchikov, K. P. Levenfish, M. Miceli, G. G. Pavlov, Yu. A. Uvarov and X. Zhou
Published online: 22 May 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201219005

Time-dependent escape of cosmic rays from supernova remnants, and their interaction with dense media    A153
I. Telezhinsky, V. V. Dwarkadas and M. Pohl
Published online: 22 May 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201118639

Absence of coreshine in the Gum/Vela region    A154
L. Pagani, C. Lefèvre, A. Bacmann and J. Steinacker
Published online: 22 May 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201219053

The geometry of the close environment of SV Piscium as probed by VLTI/MIDI    A164
D. Klotz, S. Sacuto, F. Kerschbaum, C. Paladini, H. Olofsson and J. Hron
Published online: 23 May 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201118290



-  Stellar structure and evolution
Discovery of a parsec-scale bipolar nebula around MWC 349A    A7
V. V. Gvaramadze and K. M. Menten
Published online: 18 April 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201218841

Formation of the planet around the millisecond pulsar J1719–1438    A22
L. M. van Haaften, G. Nelemans, R. Voss and P. G. Jonker
Published online: 23 April 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201218798

Orbits and masses in the multiple system LHS 1070    A29
R. Köhler, T. Ratzka and Ch. Leinert
Published online: 24 April 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201118707

Effects of the temperature dependence of the in-medium nucleon mass on core-collapse supernovae    A30
A. F. Fantina, P. Blottiau, J. Margueron, Ph. Mellor and P. M. Pizzochero
Published online: 24 April 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201118187

Stellar mass and age determinations - I. Grids of stellar models from Z = 0.006 to 0.04 and M = 0.5 to 3.5 M    A41
N. Mowlavi, P. Eggenberger, G. Meynet, S. Ekström, C. Georgy, A. Maeder, C. Charbonnel and L. Eyer
Published online: 26 April 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201117749

Asteroseismology of the Kepler V777 Herculis variable white dwarf with fully evolutionary models    A42
A. H. Córsico, L. G. Althaus, M. M. Miller Bertolami and A. Bischoff-Kim
Published online: 26 April 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201118736

Magnetic field structure in single late-type giants: the effectively single giant V390 Aurigae    A44
R. Konstantinova-Antova, M. Aurière, P. Petit, C. Charbonnel, S. Tsvetkova, A. Lèbre and R. Bogdanovski
Published online: 26 April 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201116690

Evolutionary influences on the structure of red-giant acoustic oscillation spectra from 600d of Kepler observations    A51
T. Kallinger, S. Hekker, B. Mosser, J. De Ridder, T. R. Bedding, Y. P. Elsworth, M. Gruberbauer, D. B. Guenther, D. Stello, S. Basu, et al. (5 more)
Published online: 26 April 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201218854

Spectral monitoring of RX J1856.5-3754 with XMM-Newton - Analysis of EPIC-pn data    A66
N. Sartore, A. Tiengo, S. Mereghetti, A. De Luca, R. Turolla and F. Haberl
Published online: 30 April 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201118489

Post-AGB stars in the SMC as tracers of stellar evolution: the extreme s-process enrichment of the 21 μm star J004441.04-732136.4    A67
K. De Smedt, H. Van Winckel, A. I. Karakas, L. Siess, S. Goriely and P. R. Wood
Published online: 30 April 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201219150

Mean angular diameters, distances, and pulsation modes of the classical Cepheids FF Aquilae and T Vulpeculae - CHARA/FLUOR near-infrared interferometric observations    A87
A. Gallenne, P. Kervella, A. Mérand, H. McAlister, T. ten Brummelaar, V. Coudé du Foresto, J. Sturmann, L. Sturmann, N. Turner, C. Farrington and P. J. Goldfinger
Published online: 4 May 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201219102

The origin of the late rebrightening in GRB 080503    A88
R. Hascoët, F. Daigne and R. Mochkovitch
Published online: 4 May 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201118722

Interacting planetary nebulae - I. Classification and orientation    A98
A. Ali, L. Sabin, S. Snaid and H. M. Basurah
Published online: 10 May 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201118389

KIC 4247791: a SB4 system with two eclipsing binaries (2EBs) - A quadruple system?    A105
H. Lehmann, M. Zechmeister, S. Dreizler, S. Schuh and R. Kanzler
Published online: 10 May 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201118298

Gravity-darkening exponents and apsidal-motion constants for pre-main-sequence models    A113
A. Claret
Published online: 10 May 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201218881

Accretion dynamics in the classical T Tauri star V2129 Ophiuchi    A116
S. H. P. Alencar, J. Bouvier, F. M. Walter, C. Dougados, J.-F. Donati, R. Kurosawa, M. Romanova, X. Bonfils, G. H. R. A. Lima, S. Massaro, et al. (2 more)
Published online: 10 May 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201118395


SN 2006oz: rise of a super-luminous supernova observed by the SDSS-II SN Survey    A129
G. Leloudas, E. Chatzopoulos, B. Dilday, J. Gorosabel, J. Vinko, A. Gallazzi, J. C. Wheeler, B. Bassett, J. A. Fischer, J. A. Frieman, et al. (14 more)
Published online: 11 May 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201118498

Cepheid limb darkening, angular diameter corrections, and projection factor from static spherical model stellar atmospheres    A134
H. R. Neilson, N. Nardetto, C.-C. Ngeow, P. Fouqué and J. Storm
Published online: 14 May 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201118550

On the nature of the galactic early-B hypergiants    A145
J. S. Clark, F. Najarro, I. Negueruela, B. W. Ritchie, M. A. Urbaneja and I. D. Howarth
Published online: 17 May 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201117472

On the nature of candidate luminous blue variables in M 33    A146
J. S. Clark, N. Castro, M. Garcia, A. Herrero, F. Najarro, I. Negueruela, B. W. Ritchie and K. T. Smith
Published online: 17 May 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201118440

Differentially-rotating neutron star models with a parametrized rotation profile    A156
F. Galeazzi, S. Yoshida and Y. Eriguchi
Published online: 22 May 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201016316

UKIDSS detections of cool brown dwarfs - Proper motions of 14 known >T5 dwarfs and discovery of three new T5.5-T6 dwarfs    A163
R.-D. Scholz, G. Bihain, O. Schnurr and J. Storm
Published online: 23 May 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201218947

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Erratum
The Struve-Sahade effect in the optical spectra of O-type binaries - I. Main-sequence systems (Corrigendum)    C2
N. Linder, G. Rauw, H. Sana, M. De Becker and E. Gosset
Published online: 22 May 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/20077902e

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Erratum
Infrared excess around nearby red giant branch stars and Reimers law (Corrigendum)    C3
M. A. T. Groenewegen
Published online: 24 May 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201118287e



-  Stellar atmospheres
Long-term magnetic activity of a sample of M-dwarf stars from the HARPS program - II. Activity and radial velocity    A9
J. Gomes da Silva, N. C. Santos, X. Bonfils, X. Delfosse, T. Forveille, S. Udry, X. Dumusque and C. Lovis
Published online: 19 April 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201118598

Three-dimensional radiative transfer in clumped hot star winds - I. Influence of clumping on the resonance line formation    A37
B. Šurlan, W.-R. Hamann, J. Kubát, L. M. Oskinova and A. Feldmeier
Published online: 25 April 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201118590

Abundances of neutron-capture elements in G 24-25 - A halo-population CH subgiant    A48
S. Liu, P. E. Nissen, W. J. Schuster, G. Zhao, Y. Q. Chen and Y. C. Liang
Published online: 26 April 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201117909

Inelastic Mg+H collision data for non-LTE applications in stellar atmospheres    A80
P. S. Barklem, A. K. Belyaev, A. Spielfiedel, M. Guitou and N. Feautrier
Published online: 3 May 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201219081

The magnetic fields of hot subdwarf stars    A100
J. D. Landstreet, S. Bagnulo, L. Fossati, S. Jordan and S. J. O’Toole
Published online: 10 May 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201219178

C, N, O abundances and carbon isotope ratios in evolved stars of the open clusters Collinder 261 and NGC 6253    A137
Š. Mikolaitis, G. Tautvaišienė, R. Gratton, A. Bragaglia and E. Carretta
Published online: 16 May 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201218831

NLTE determination of the calcium abundance and 3D corrections in extremely metal-poor stars    A143
M. Spite, S. M. Andrievsky, F. Spite, E. Caffau, S. A. Korotin, P. Bonifacio, H.-G. Ludwig, P. François and R. Cayrel
Published online: 16 May 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201218773

Lithium in M 67: From the main sequence to the red giant branch    A150
G. Pace, M. Castro, J. Meléndez, S. Théado and J.-D. do Nascimento Jr.
Published online: 17 May 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201117704



-  The Sun
HSTOF ENA observations and energetic ion distributions in the heliosheath    A14
A. Czechowski, M. Hilchenbach and K. C. Hsieh
Published online: 19 April 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201118570

Scaling laws for magnetic fields on the quiet Sun    A17
J. O. Stenflo
Published online: 20 April 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201218939

J-state interference signatures in the second solar spectrum - Modeling the Cr i triplet at 5204–5208 Å    A24
H. N. Smitha, K. N. Nagendra, J. O. Stenflo, M. Bianda, M. Sampoorna, R. Ramelli and L. S. Anusha
Published online: 23 April 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201118466

Reconstruction of total solar irradiance 1974–2009    A27
W. T. Ball, Y. C. Unruh, N. A. Krivova, S. Solanki, T. Wenzler, D. J. Mortlock and A. H. Jaffe
Published online: 23 April 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201118702

An extreme ultraviolet wave associated with a failed eruption observed by the Solar Dynamics Observatory    A49
R. Zheng, Y. Jiang, J. Yang, Y. Bi, J. Hong, B. Yang and D. Yang
Published online: 26 April 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201118305

Klein-Gordon equations for horizontal transverse oscillations in two-dimensional coronal loops    A53
Qiang Hu, J. F. McKenzie and G. M. Webb
Published online: 26 April 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201117421

Variation in sunspot properties between 1999 and 2011 as observed with the Tenerife Infrared Polarimeter    A60
R. Rezaei, C. Beck and W. Schmidt
Published online: 27 April 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201118635


Vortices, shocks, and heating in the solar photosphere: effect of a magnetic field    A68
R. Moll, R. H. Cameron and M. Schüssler
Published online: 30 April 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201218866

Estimation of the squashing degree within a three-dimensional domain    A78
E. Pariat and P. Démoulin
Published online: 1 May 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201118515

Fragmentation during merging of plasmoids in the magnetic field reconnection    A86
M. Karlický, M. Bárta and D. Nickeler
Published online: 4 May 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201218781

The role of Rayleigh-Taylor instabilities in filament threads    A102
J. Terradas, R. Oliver and J. L. Ballester
Published online: 10 May 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201219027

High spatial resolution VAULT H-Lyα observations and multiwavelength analysis of an active region filament    A108
J.-C. Vial, K. Olivier, A. A. Philippon, A. Vourlidas and V. Yurchyshyn
Published online: 10 May 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201118275



-  Planets and planetary systems
Association of individual meteors with their parent bodies    A2
R. Rudawska, J. Vaubaillon and P. Atreya
Published online: 19 April 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201118762

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A background galaxy in the field of the β Pictoris debris disk    A3
S. Regibo, B. Vandenbussche, C. Waelkens, B. Acke, B. Sibthorpe, M. Nottebaere, K. Voet, J. Di Francesco, M. Fridlund, W. K. Gear, et al. (2 more)
Published online: 18 April 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201118631

Debris disks as signposts of terrestrial planet formation - II. Dependence of exoplanet architectures on giant planet and disk properties    A11
S. N. Raymond, P. J. Armitage, A. Moro-Martín, M. Booth, M. C. Wyatt, J. C. Armstrong, A. M. Mandell, F. Selsis and A. A. West
Published online: 19 April 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201117049

Neutral production of hydrogen isocyanide (HNC) and hydrogen cyanide (HCN) in Titan’s upper atmosphere    A21
E. Hébrard, M. Dobrijevic, J. C. Loison, A. Bergeat and K. M. Hickson
Published online: 23 April 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201218837

The high-energy environment in the super-Earth system CoRoT-7    A26
K. Poppenhaeger, S. Czesla, S. Schröter, S. Lalitha, V. Kashyap and J. H. M. M. Schmitt
Published online: 23 April 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201118507

Multi-object spectroscopy of stars in the CoRoT fields - I. Early-type stars in the CoRoT-fields IRa01, LRa01, LRa02    A34
D. Sebastian, E. W. Guenther, V. Schaffenroth, D. Gandolfi, S. Geier, U. Heber, M. Deleuil and C. Moutou
Published online: 24 April 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201118032

Warm debris disks candidates in transiting planets systems    A38
Á. Ribas, B. Merín, D. R. Ardila and H. Bouy
Published online: 25 April 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201118306

Metallicity of solar-type stars with debris discs and planets    A40
J. Maldonado, C. Eiroa, E. Villaver, B. Montesinos and A. Mora
Published online: 25 April 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201218800

Kepler KOI-13.01 – Detection of beaming and ellipsoidal modulations pointing to a massive hot Jupiter    A56
T. Mazeh, G. Nachmani, G. Sokol, S. Faigler and S. Zucker
Published online: 27 April 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201117908

Compression behavior of porous dust agglomerates    A59
A. Seizinger, R. Speith and W. Kley
Published online: 27 April 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201218855

Simultaneous Swift X-ray and UV views of comet C/2007 N3 (Lulin)    A70
J. A. Carter, D. Bodewits, A. M. Read and S. Immler
Published online: 1 May 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201117950

“TNOs are Cool”: A survey of the trans-Neptunian region - IV. Size/albedo characterization of 15 scattered disk and detached objects observed with Herschel-PACS    A92
P. Santos-Sanz, E. Lellouch, S. Fornasier, C. Kiss, A. Pal, T. G. Müller, E. Vilenius, J. Stansberry, M. Mommert, A. Delsanti, et al. (13 more)
Published online: 4 May 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201118541

TNOs are cool: A survey of the trans-Neptunian region - V. Physical characterization of 18 Plutinos using Herschel-PACS observations    A93
M. Mommert, A. W. Harris, C. Kiss, A. Pál, P. Santos-Sanz, J. Stansberry, A. Delsanti, E. Vilenius, T. G. Müller, N. Peixinho, et al. (11 more)
Published online: 4 May 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201118562

“TNOs are Cool”: A survey of the trans-Neptunian region - VI. Herschel/PACS observations and thermal modeling of 19 classical Kuiper belt objects    A94
E. Vilenius, C. Kiss, M. Mommert, T. Müller, P. Santos-Sanz, A. Pal, J. Stansberry, M. Mueller, N. Peixinho, S. Fornasier, et al. (13 more)
Published online: 4 May 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201118743

Extrasolar planet population synthesis - IV. Correlations with disk metallicity, mass, and lifetime    A97
C. Mordasini, Y. Alibert, W. Benz, H. Klahr and T. Henning
Published online: 10 May 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201117350

Rocky super-Earth interiors - Structure and internal dynamics of CoRoT-7b and Kepler-10b    A103
F. W. Wagner, N. Tosi, F. Sohl, H. Rauer and T. Spohn
Published online: 10 May 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201118441

Formation of chondrules in radiative shock waves - I. First results, spherical dust particles, stationary shocks    A107
H. Joham and E. A. Dorfi
Published online: 10 May 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201118467

Sun-grazing orbit of the unusual near-Earth object 2004 LG    A109
D. Vokrouhlický and D. Nesvorný
Published online: 10 May 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201118585

Treating gravity in thin-disk simulations    A123
T. W. A. Müller, W. Kley and F. Meru
Published online: 11 May 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201118737

Direct imaging constraints on planet populations detected by microlensing    A133
S. P. Quanz, D. Lafrenière, M. R. Meyer, M. M. Reggiani and E. Buenzli
Published online: 14 May 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201118320

Comparing HARPS and Kepler surveys - The alignment of multiple-planet systems    A139
P. Figueira, M. Marmier, G. Boué, C. Lovis, N. C. Santos, M. Montalto, S. Udry, F. Pepe and M. Mayor
Published online: 15 May 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201219017

An HST search for planets in the lower main sequence of the globular cluster NGC 6397    A144
V. Nascimbeni, L. R. Bedin, G. Piotto, F. De Marchi and R. M. Rich
Published online: 16 May 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201118655

Transiting exoplanets from the CoRoT space mission - XXII. CoRoT-16b: a hot Jupiter with a hint of eccentricity around a faint solar-like star    A149
M. Ollivier, M. Gillon, A. Santerne, G. Wuchterl, M. Havel, H. Bruntt, P. Bordé, T. Pasternacki, M. Endl, D. Gandolfi, et al. (46 more)
Published online: 17 May 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201117460

Dynamical analysis and constraints for the HD 196885 system    A151
C. A. Giuppone, M. H. M. Morais, G. Boué and A. C. M. Correia
Published online: 17 May 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201118356

Photometric observations of comet 81P/Wild 2 during the 2010 perihelion passage    A159
I. Bertini, C. Barbieri, T.-M. Ho, M. Lazzarin, G. Cremonese, M. Küppers, S. Magrin and S. Marchi
Published online: 22 May 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201118004

Anelastic tidal dissipation in multi-layer planets    A165
F. Remus, S. Mathis, J.-P. Zahn and V. Lainey
Published online: 24 May 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201118595



-  Celestial mechanics and astrometry
The orbit of 2010 TK7: possible regions of stability for other Earth Trojan asteroids    A127
R. Dvorak, C. Lhotka and L. Zhou
Published online: 11 May 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201118374
Candidate stellar occultations by large trans-Neptunian objects up to 2015    A142
M. Assafin, J. I. B. Camargo, R. Vieira Martins, F. Braga-Ribas, B. Sicardy, A. H. Andrei and D. N. da Silva Neto
Published online: 16 May 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201118349
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Erratum
New precession expressions, valid for long time intervals (Corrigendum)    C1
J. Vondrák, N. Capitaine and P. Wallace
Published online: 10 May 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201117274e


-  Atomic, molecular, and nuclear data
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On the electronic spectroscopy of closed-shell cations derived from resonance-stabilized radicals: Insights from theory and Franck-Condon analysis    A8
T. P. Troy, S. H. Kable, T. W. Schmidt and S. A. Reid
Published online: 19 April 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201218813

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Breit-Pauli oscillator strengths and electron excitation collision strengths for Si VIII    A61
S. S. Tayal
Published online: 27 April 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201218992

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Atomic data for astrophysics: Fe x soft X-ray lines    A90
G. Del Zanna, P. J. Storey, N. R. Badnell and H. E. Mason
Published online: 4 May 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201118720

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Aminoacetonitrile characterization in astrophysical-like conditions    A114
F. Borget, G. Danger, F. Duvernay, M. Chomat, V. Vinogradoff, P. Theulé and T. Chiavassa
Published online: 10 May 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201218949

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Potassium spectra in the 700–7000 cm-1 domain: Transitions involving f-, g-, and h-states    A125
S. Civiš, M. Ferus, P. Kubelík, P. Jelinek and V. E. Chernov
Published online: 11 May 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201218867



-  Astronomical instrumentation
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Spacecraft VLBI and Doppler tracking: algorithms and implementation    A43
D. A. Duev, G. Molera Calvés, S. V. Pogrebenko, L. I. Gurvits, G. Cimó and T. Bocanegra Bahamon
Published online: 26 April 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201218885

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Detection noise bias and variance in the power spectrum and bispectrum in optical interferometry    A46
J. A. Gordon and D. F. Buscher
Published online: 26 April 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201117335

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Star-galaxy separation in the AKARI NEP deep field    A50
A. Solarz, A. Pollo, T. T. Takeuchi, A. Pȩpiak, H. Matsuhara, T. Wada, S. Oyabu, T. Takagi, T. Goto, Y. Ohyama, et al. (3 more)
Published online: 26 April 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201118108

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FIRST, a fibered aperture masking instrument - I. First on-sky test results    A55
E. Huby, G. Perrin, F. Marchis, S. Lacour, T. Kotani, G. Duchêne, E. Choquet, E. L. Gates, J. M. Woillez, O. Lai, et al. (5 more)
Published online: 27 April 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201118517

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Kalman-filter control schemes for fringe tracking - Development and application to VLTI/GRAVITY    A81
J. Menu, G. Perrin, E. Choquet and S. Lacour
Published online: 3 May 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201218932

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A way to deal with the fringe-like pattern in VIMOS-IFU data    A82
C. Lagerholm, H. Kuntschner, M. Cappellari, D. Krajnović, R. M. McDermid and M. Rejkuba
Published online: 3 May 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201218926

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Atmospheric characterization of cold exoplanets using a 1.5-m coronagraphic space telescope    A83
A.-L. Maire, R. Galicher, A. Boccaletti, P. Baudoz, J. Schneider, K. L. Cahoy, D. M. Stam and W. A. Traub
Published online: 3 May 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201218954

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On the sensitivity of closure phases to faint companions in optical long baseline interferometry    A89
J.-B. Le Bouquin and O. Absil
Published online: 4 May 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201117891

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Photon orbital angular momentum and torque metrics for single telescopes and interferometers    A101
N. M. Elias II
Published online: 10 May 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201218774

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Over-resolution of compact sources in interferometric observations    A135
I. Martí-Vidal, M. A. Pérez-Torres and A. P. Lobanov
Published online: 15 May 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201118334

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Speckle temporal stability in XAO coronagraphic images    A136
P. Martinez, C. Loose, E. Aller Carpentier and M. Kasper
Published online: 15 May 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201118459

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First low-latency LIGO+Virgo search for binary inspirals and their electromagnetic counterparts    A155
J. Abadie, B. P. Abbott, R. Abbott, T. D. Abbott, M. Abernathy, T. Accadia, F. Acernese, C. Adams, R. Adhikari, C. Affeldt, et al. (784 more)
Published online: 23 May 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201218860



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Unusual quasars from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey selected by means of Kohonen self-organising maps    A77
H. Meusinger, P. Schalldach, R.-D. Scholz, A. in der Au, M. Newholm, A. de Hoon and B. Kaminsky
Published online: 1 May 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201118143
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An investigation of binary stars in the Pleiades with high contrast and spatial resolution    A96
A. Richichi, W. P. Chen, F. Cusano, O. Fors, M. Moerchen and S. Komonjinda
Published online: 7 May 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201219041
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3C 286: a bright, compact, stable, and highly polarized calibrator for millimeter-wavelength observations    A111
I. Agudo, C. Thum, H. Wiesemeyer, S. N. Molina, C. Casadio, J. L. Gómez and D. Emmanoulopoulos
Published online: 10 May 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201218801
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Simultaneous Planck, Swift, and Fermi observations of X-ray and γ-ray selected blazars    A160
P. Giommi, G. Polenta, A. Lähteenmäki, D. J. Thompson, M. Capalbi, S. Cutini, D. Gasparrini, J. González-Nuevo, J. León-Tavares, M. López-Caniego, et al. (85 more)
Published online: 22 May 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201117825


-  Numerical methods and codes
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Implementation of gravitational shocks in two-dimensional Fokker-Planck models    A23
S. S. Kim, J. Shin and K. Takahashi
Published online: 23 April 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201118695
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A substitute for the singular Green kernel in the Newtonian potential of celestial bodies    A130
J.-M. Huré and A. Dieckmann
Published online: 14 May 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201118443