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Letters to the Editor

  • Time-energy correlations in solar flare occurrence
    E. Lippiello, L. de Arcangelis and C. Godano
    Accepted: 05 February 2010
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200913784
    PDF file (305 KB)

  • Strong starlight suppression sufficient to enable direct detection of exoplanets in the habitable zone
    S.R. Martin and A.J. Booth
    Accepted: 04 February 2010
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201014139


  • Imprints of coronal temperature disturbances on type III bursts
    B. Li, I.H. Cairns and P.A. Robinson
    Accepted: 29 January 2010
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200913893
    PDF file (440.5 KB)

  • ULAS~J141623.94$+$134836.3 - a faint common proper motion companion of a nearby L dwarf. Serendipitous discovery of a Y dwarf candidate in UKIDSS DR6
    R.D. Scholz
    Accepted: 27 January 2010
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201014078
    PDF file (472, KB)

  • The diffuse radio filament in the merging system ZwCl 2341.1+0000
    G. Giovannini, A. Bonafede, L. Feretti, F. Govoni and M. Murgia
    Accepted: 25 January 2010
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200913983
    PDF file (278.4 KB)

  • The onset of the GeV afterglow of GRB 090510
    G. Ghirlanda, G. Ghisellini and L. Nava
    Accepted: 21 January 2010
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200913980
    PDF file (319.5 KB)

  • Detection of N15NH+ in L1544
    L. Bizzocchi, P. Caselli and L. Dore
    Accepted: 20 January 2010
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200913835
    PDF file (75.97 KB)

  • STEREO observations of quasi-periodically driven high velocity outflows in polar plumes
    S.W. McIntosh, D.E. Innes, B. De Pontieu and R.J. Leamon
    Accepted: 19 January 2010
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200913699
    PDF file (312.1 KB)

  • Evidence for a thick disk rotation-metallicity correlation
    A. Spagna, M.G. Lattanzi, P. Re Fiorentin and R.L. Smart
    Accepted: 13 January 2010
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200913538
    PDF file (762.1 KB)

  • Protostellar collapse: radiative and magnetic feedbacks on small-scale fragmentation
    B. Commerçon, P. Hennebelle, E. Audit, G. Chabrier and R. Teyssier
    Accepted: 12 January 2010
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200913597
    PDF file (3.728 MB)

Astrophysical processes

  • The heliospheric transport and modulation of multiple charged anomalous oxygen revisited
    R.D. Strauss, M.S. Potgieter and S.E.S. Ferreira
    Accepted: 01 February 2010
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200913866


  • Low magnetic-Prandtl number flow configurations for cold astrophysical disk models: speculation and analysis
    O.M. Umurhan
    Accepted: 28 January 2010
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200913169
    PDF file (377.6 KB)

  • The subcritical baroclinic instability in local accretion disc models
    G. Lesur and J. C. B. Papaloizou
    Accepted: 13 January 2010
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200913594
    PDF file (6.722 MB)

  • Escape-limited model of cosmic-ray acceleration revisited
    Y. Ohira, K. Murase and R. Yamazaki
    Accepted: 10 January 2010
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200913495
    PDF file (272.6 KB)

  • Reconnection in weakly stochastic B-fields in 2D
    K. Kulpa-Dybel, G. Kowal, K. Otmianowska-Mazur, A. Lazarian and E. Vishniac
    Accepted: 05 January 2010
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200913218
    PDF file (2,10 MB)

  • Upstream ions converting into downstream pick-up ions: The effect of shock-decelerated frozen-in fields
    H.-J. Fahr and M. Siewert
    Accepted: 30 December 2009
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200913805
    PDF file (137, KB)

  • The extreme luminosity states of Sagittarius A*
    N. Sabha, G. Witzel, A. Eckart, R.M. Buchholz, M. Bremer, R. Giessuebel, M. Garcia-Marin, D. Kunneriath, K. Muzic, R. Schoedel, C. Straubmeier, M. Zamaninasab and A. Zernickel
    Accepted: 22 December 2009
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200913186
    PDF file (1.098 MB)

  • Resonant absorption with 2D variation of field line eigenfrequencies
    A. J. B. Russell and A. N. Wright
    Accepted: 13 December 2009
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200912669
    PDF file (456.7 KB)

  • Spectral evolution of bright NS LMXBs with INTEGRAL: an application of the thermal plus bulk comptonization model
    L. I. Mainardi, A. Paizis, R. Farinelli, E. Kuulkers, J. Rodriguez, D. Hannikainen, P. Savolainen, S. Piraino, A. Bazzano and A. Santangelo
    Accepted: 09 December 2009
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200912921
    PDF file (404, KB)

  • Experimental evidence for water formation on interstellar dust grains by hydrogen and oxygen atoms
    F. Dulieu, L. Amiaud, E. Congiu, J.-H. Fillion, E. Matar, A. Momeni, V. Pirronello and J. L. Lemaire
    Accepted: 04 December 2009
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200912079
    PDF file (194.9 KB)

  • Large jets from small-scale magnetic fields
    R. Moll
    Accepted: 28 November 2009
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200913176
    PDF file (4.251 MB)

  • Gamma rays from annihilations at the galactic center in a physical dark matter distribution
    A. Lapi, A. Paggi, A. Cavaliere, A. Lionetto, A. Morselli and V. Vitale
    Accepted: 28 November 2009
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200913353
    PDF file (207.0 KB)

  • Relativistic tidal compressions of a star by a massive black hole
    M. Brassart and J.P. Luminet
    Accepted: 28 November 2009
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200913442
    PDF file (1.523 MB)

  • Massive protostars as gamma-ray sources
    V. Bosch-Ramon, G.E. Romero, A.T. Araudo and J.M. Paredes
    Accepted: 24 November 2009
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200913488
    PDF file (269.2 KB)

  • On the shape of the spectrum of cosmic-rays accelerated inside superbubbles
    G. Ferrand and A. Marcowith
    Accepted: 16 November 2009
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200913520
    PDF file (574.5 KB)

  • On the structure of the turbulent interstellar clouds. Influence of the equation of state on the dynamics of 3D compressible flows
    E. Audit and P. Hennebelle
    Accepted: 06 November 2009
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200912695
    PDF file (3.233 MB)

  • Spectral-luminosity relation within individual Fermi GRBs
    G. Ghirlanda, L. Nava, and G. Ghisellini
    Accepted: 02 November 2009
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200913134
    PDF file (366.7 KB)

Cosmology (including clusters of galaxies)

  • Substructure of the galaxy clusters in the REXCESS sample: observed statistics and comparison to numerical simulations
    H. Böhringer, G.W. Pratt, M. Arnaud, S. Borgani, J.H. Croston, T.J. Ponman, S. Ameglio, R.F. Temple and K. Dolag
    Received: 18 December 2009 / Accepted: 03 February 2010
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200913911


  • Probing local non-Gaussianities within a Bayesian framework
    F. Elsner, B.D.Wandelt and M.D. Schneider
    Accepted: 31 January 2010
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200913214


  • The Coma cluster magnetic field from Faraday rotation measures
    A. Bonafede, L. Feretti, M. Murgia, F. Govoni, G. Giovannini, D. Dallacasa, K. Dolag and G. B. Taylor
    Accepted: 27 January 2010
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200913696


  • X-ray spectral study of hot gas in three clusters of galaxies
    Y.G. Grange, E. Costantini, J. de Plaa, J.J.M. in't Zand, F. Verbunt, J.S. Kaastra and F. Verrecchia
    Accepted: 12 January 2010
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200913245


  • ARCRAIDER II: Arc search in a unique sample of non-Abell clusters
    W. Kausch, S. Schindler, T. Erben, J. Wambsganss and and A. Schwope
    Received: 01 October 2008 / Accepted: 06 January 2010
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200811066
    PDF file (6.59 MB)

  • Infrared properties of the SDSS-maxBCG galaxy clusters
    M. Roncarelli, E. Pointecouteau, M. Giard, L. Montier and R. Pello
    Accepted: 05 January 2010
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200912726
    PDF file (260.4 KB)

  • Measuring galaxy segregation with the mark connection function
    V.J. Martinez, P. Arnalte-Mur and D. Stoyan
    Accepted: 05 January 2010
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200912922
    PDF file (331, KB)

  • Spitzer deep and wide legacy mid- and far-infrared number counts and lower limits of cosmic infrared background
    M. Béthermin, H. Dole, A. Beelen and H. Aussel
    Accepted: 05 January 2010
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200913279
    PDF file (1.437 MB)

  • Separating inner and outer contributions in gravitational lenses using the perturbative method.
    C. Alard
    Accepted: 28 December 2009
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200913398
    PDF file (294.0 KB)

  • Evolution of infrared luminosity functions of galaxies in the AKARI NEP-deep field. Revealing the cosmic star formation history hidden by dust
    T. Goto, T.Takagi, H.Matsuhara, T.T. Takeuchi, C.Pearson, T.Wada, T.Nakagawa, O.Ilbert, E. Le Floc’h, S.Oyabu, Y.Ohyama, M.Malkan, H.M.Lee, M.G.Lee, H.Inami, N.Hwang, H.Hanami, M.Im and K.Imai
    Accepted: 23 December 2009
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200913182


  • Lyalpha emitters in the GOODS-S field. A powerful pure nebular SED with Niv] emission at z=5.563
    A. Raiter, R.A.E. Fosbury and H. Teimoorinia
    Accepted: 17 December 2009
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200912429
    PDF file (3.636 MB)

  • A fitting formula for the non-gaussian contribution to the lensing power spectrum covariance
    J. Pielorz, J. Roediger, I. Tereno and P. Schneider
    Accepted: 10 December 2009
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200912854
    PDF file (505, KB)

  • The Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey - VLT/ISAAC near-infrared imaging of the GOODS-south field
    J. Retzlaff, P. Rosati, M. Dickinson, B. Vandame, C. Rite, M. Nonino and C.Cesarsky
    Accepted: 07 December 2009
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200912940
    PDF file (2.215 MB)

  • Weighing simulated galaxy clusters using lensing and X-ray
    M. Meneghetti, E. Rasia, J. Merten, F. Bellagamba, S. Ettori, P. Mazzotta and K. Dolag
    Received: 01 September 2009 / Accepted: 01 December 2009
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200913222


  • Search for chameleon-like scalar fields with the ammonia method
    S. A. Levshakov, P. Molaro, A.V. Lapinov, D. Reimers, C. Henkel and T. Sakai
    Accepted: 18 November 2009
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200913007
    PDF file (1.573 MB)

  • Spiral-like structure at the centre of nearby clusters of galaxies
    T. F. Laganá, F. Andrade-Santos, and G. B. Lima Neto
    Accepted: 17 November 2009
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200913180
    PDF file (985.5 KB)

  • Evidence of a fast evolution of the UV luminosity function beyond redshift 6 from a deep HAWK-I survey of the GOODS-S field.
    M. Castellano, A. Fontana, K. Boutsia, A. Grazian, L. Pentericci, R. Bouwens, M. Dickinson, M. Giavalisco, P. Santini, S. Cristiani, F. Fiore, S. Gallozzi, E. Giallongo, R. Maiolino, F. Mannucci, N. Menci, A. Moorwood, M. Nonino and D.Paris et al.
    Accepted: 10 November 2009
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200913300
    PDF file (3.635 MB)

  • On the influence of non-thermal pressure on the mass determination of galaxy clusters
    T. F. Laganá, R. S. Souza, and G. R. Keller
    Accepted: 10 November 2009
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200911855
    PDF file (255.5 KB)

  • Gas entropy in a representative sample of nearby X-ray galaxy clusters (REXCESS): relationship to gas mass fraction
    G. W. Pratt, M. Arnaud, R. Piffaretti, H. Böhringer, T. J. Ponman, J. H. Croston, G. M. Voit, S. Borgani, and R. G. Bower
    Accepted: 10 November 2009
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200913309
    PDF file (524.0 KB)

  • Thermo-dynamic and chemical properties of the intra-cluster medium
    A. Leccardi, M. Rossetti, and S. Molendi
    Accepted: 22 October 2009
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200913094
    PDF file (359.6 KB)

  • What is a cool-core cluster? A detailed analysis of the cores of the X-ray flux-limited HIFLUGCS cluster sample
    D. Hudson, R. Mittal, T. Reiprich, P. Nulsen, H. Andernach, and C. Sarazin
    Accepted: 20 October 2009
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200912377
    PDF file (1.936 MB)

  • Cool core remnants in galaxy clusters
    M. Rossetti and S. Molendi
    Received: 20 August 2009 / Accepted: 20 October 2009
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200913156


  • Ly alpha escape during cosmological hydrogen recombination: the 3d-1s and 3s-1s two-photon processes
    J. Chluba and R. A. Sunyaev
    Accepted: 27 August 2009
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200912263
    PDF file (1.443 MB)

Extragalactic astronomy

  • Galactic winds and the symmetry properties of galactic magnetic fields
    D. Moss, D. Sokoloff and R. Beck. M. Krause
    Accepted: 26 January 2010
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200913509
    PDF file (562.8 KB)

  • The radio-loud active nucleus in the "dark lens" galaxy J1218+2953
    S. Frey, Z. Paragi, R.M. Campbell and A. Moór
    Accepted: 22 January 2010
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200913864
    PDF file (229, KB)

  • GRB 090313: X-shooter's first shot at a gamma-ray burst
    A. de Ugarte Postigo, V. D'Elia, S. Piranomonte, P. Goldoni, D. Malesani, C.C. Thöne, S. Covino, H. Flores, J.P.U. Fynbo, J. Hjorth, R.A.M.J. Wijers, S. D'Odorico, F. Hammer, L. Kaper, P. Kjaergaard, S. Randich, M.I. Andersen and L.A. Antonelli et al.
    Accepted: 20 January 2010
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200913113


  • Star-formation in the central kpc of the starburst/LINER galaxy NGC 1614
    E. Olsson, S. Aalto, M. Thomasson and R. Beswick
    Accepted: 15 January 2010
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200811538
    PDF file (1.24 MB)

  • XMM-Newton unveils the complex iron K alpha region of Mrk 279
    E. Costantini, J.S. Kaastra, K. Korista, J. Ebrero, N. Arav, G. Kriss and K.C. Steenbrugge
    Accepted: 14 January 2010
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200912555
    PDF file (276.0 KB)

  • The molecular interstellar medium of the Local Group dwarf NGC 6822. The molecular ISM of NGC 6822
    P. Gratier, J. Braine, N.J. Rodriguez-Fernandez, F.P. Israel, K.F. Schuster, N. Brouillet and E. Gardan
    Accepted: 13 January 2010
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200911722
    PDF file (1,28 MB)

  • Determining the morpho-kinematic properties of a face-on merger at z~0.7
    I. Fuentes-Carrera, H.Flores, Y.Yang, S.Peirani, F.Hammer, M.Rodrigues and C.Balkowski
    Accepted: 13 January 2010
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200913139


  • Relativistic beaming and gamma-ray brightness of blazars
    T. Savolainen, D. C. Homan, T. Hovatta, M. Kadler, Y. Y. Kovalev, M. L. Lister, E. Ros and J. A. Zensus
    Accepted: 12 January 2010
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200913740
    PDF file (195.1 KB)

  • The influence of the cluster environment on the large-scale radio continuum emission of 8 Virgo cluster spirals
    B. Vollmer, M. Soida, A. Chung, R. Beck, M. Urbanik, K.T. Chyzy, K. Otmianowska-Mazur and J.H. van Gorkom
    Accepted: 11 January 2010
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200913591
    PDF file (5.802 MB)

  • X-ray power law spectra in active galactic nuclei
    W. Ishibashi and T. J.L. Courvoisier
    Accepted: 11 January 2010
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200913587
    PDF file (141.4 KB)

  • Stellar population and kinematics of NGC404
    A. Bouchard, P. Prugniel, M. Koleva and M. Sharina
    Accepted: 08 January 2010
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200913137


  • The Wolf-Rayet features and mass-metallicity relation of long-duration gamma-ray burst host galaxies
    X. Han, F. Hammer, Y. C. Liang, H. Flores, M. Rodrigues, J. L. Hou and J. Y. Wei
    Accepted: 06 January 2010
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200912475
    PDF file (425.1 KB)

  • The X-ray to optical-UV luminosity ratio of X-ray selected Type 1 AGN in XMM-COSMOS
    E. Lusso, A. Comastri, C. Vignali, G. Zamorani, M. Brusa, R. Gilli, K. Iwasawa, M. Salvato, F. Civano, M. Elvis, A. Merloni, A. Bongiorno, J.R. Trump, A.M. Koekemoer, E. Schinnerer, E. Le Floc'h, N. Cappelluti, K. Jahnke, M. Sargent and et al.
    Accepted: 04 January 2010
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200913298


  • INTEGRAL hard X-ray spectra of the cosmic X-ray background and the galactic ridge emission from occultation by the Earth
    M. Tuerler, M. Chernyakova, T. J.-L. Courvoisier, P. Lubinski, A. Neronov, N.Produit and R. Walter
    Accepted: 04 January 2010
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200913072
    PDF file (537.1 KB)

  • Warm absorber and truncated accretion disc in IRAS 05078+1626
    J. Svoboda, M. Guainazzi and V. Karas
    Accepted: 24 December 2009
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200913659
    PDF file (350, KB)

  • A quasar companion to the puzzling quasar SDSS J0927+2943
    R. Decarli, R. Falomo, A. Treves and M. Barattini
    Accepted: 23 December 2009
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200913760
    PDF file (192.0 KB)

  • Observations of the Large Magellanic Cloud with Fermi
    A.A Abdo, M. Ackermann, M. Ajello, W. B. Atwood, L. Baldini, J. Ballet, G. Barbiellini, D. Bastieri, B. M. Baughman, K. Bechtol, R. Bellazzini, B. Berenji, R. D. Blandford, E. D. Bloom, E. Bonamente, A. W. Borgland, J. Bregeon, A. Brez, M. Brigida, P. Bruel, T. H. Burnett, S. Buson and et al
    Accepted: 22 December 2009
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200913474
    PDF file (1.454 MB)

  • Environmental dependence of 8 mum luminosity functions of galaxies at z~0.8. Comparison between RXJ1716.4+6708 and the AKARI NEP deep field
    T. Goto, Y.Koyama, T.Wada, C.Pearson, H.Matsuhara, T.Takagi, H.Shim, M.Im, M.G.Lee, H.Inami, M.Malkan, S.Okamura, T.T.Takeuchi, S.Serjeant, T.Kodama, T.Nakagawa, S.Oyabu, Y.Ohyama, H.M.Lee, N.Hwang, H.Hanami, K.Imai and T.Ishigaki
    Accepted: 22 December 2009
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200913473
    PDF file (102.9 KB)

  • Star formation and dust extinction properties of local galaxies from AKARI-GALEX All-Sky Surveys: First results from most secure multiband sample from FUV to FIR
    T.T. Takeuchi, V. Buat, S. Heinis, E. Giovannoli, F.T. Yuan, J. Iglesias-Paramo, K. L. Murata and D. Burgarella
    Accepted: 21 December 2009
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200913476
    PDF file (2.061 MB)

  • The Suzaku broadband X-ray spectrum of the dwarf Seyfert galaxy NGC4395
    K. Iwasawa, Y. Tanaka and L.C. Gallo
    Accepted: 21 December 2009
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200912431
    PDF file (470, KB)

  • A wide-field Hi mosaic of Messier 31. II. The disk warp, rotation, and the dark matter halo
    E. Corbelli, S. Lorenzoni, R. Walterbos, R. Braun and D. Thilker
    Accepted: 19 December 2009
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200913297
    PDF file (2.276 MB)

  • An HI absorbing circumnuclear disk in Cygnus A
    C. Struve and J.E. Conway
    Accepted: 19 December 2009
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200913572
    PDF file (285, KB)

  • J004457+4123 (Sharov 21): not a remarkable nova in M 31 but a background quasar with a spectacular UV flare
    H. Meusinger, M. Henze, K. Birkle, W. Pietsch, B. Williams, D. Hatzidimitriou, R. Nesci, H. Mandel, S. Ertel, A. Hinze and T. Berthold
    Accepted: 18 December 2009
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200913526
    PDF file (544.5 KB)

  • Metal production in M33: space and time variations
    L. Magrini, L. Stanghellini, E. Corbelli, D. Galli and E. Villaver
    Accepted: 18 December 2009
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200913564
    PDF file (833.9 KB)

  • Galaxy evolution in Local Group analogs. I. A GALEX study of nearby groups dominated by late-type galaxies
    A. Marino, L. Bianchi, R. Rampazzo, L.M. Buson and D. Bettoni
    Accepted: 17 December 2009
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200913216
    PDF file (2.655 MB)

  • Chemical evolution models for the dwarf spheroidal galaxies Leo 1 and Leo 2
    G. A. Lanfranchi and F. Matteucci
    Accepted: 17 December 2009
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200913045
    PDF file (245.0 KB)

  • Multifrequency observations of a sample of peculiar BL Lacertae objects
    A. Maselli, E. Massaro, R. Nesci, S. Sclavi, C. Rossi and P. Giommi
    Accepted: 16 December 2009
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200913343
    PDF file (250, KB)

  • A galaxy at z=5.56 with feedback in action ? The case of GDS J033218.92-275302.7
    E. Vanzella, A. Grazian, M. Hayes, L. Pentericci, D. Schaerer, M. Dickinson, S. Cristiani, M. Giavalisco, A. Verhamme, M. Nonino and P. Rosati
    Accepted: 15 December 2009
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200913042
    PDF file (551.7 KB)

  • Detection of the high z GRB 080913 and its implications on progenitors and energy extraction mechanisms
    D. Perez-Ramirez, A. de Ugarte Postigo, J. Gorosabel, M. A. Aloy, G. Johannesson, M. A. Guerrero, J. P. Osborne, K. L. Page, R. S. Warwick, I. Horvath, P. Veres, M. Jelinek, P. Kubanek, S. Guziy, M. Bremer, J. M. Winters, A. Riva, and A. J. Castro-Tirado
    Accepted: 14 December 2009
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200811151
    PDF file (495.0 KB)

  • Prominent spiral arms in the gaseous outer galaxy disks
    G. Bertin and N.C. Amorisco
    Accepted: 11 December 2009
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200913611
    PDF file (148.3 KB)

  • Spectroastrometry of rotating gas disks for the detection of supermassive black holes in galactic nuclei.I.Method and simulations
    A. Gnerucci, A. Marconi, A. Capetti, D. J. Axon and A. Robinson
    Accepted: 11 December 2009
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200912530
    PDF file (414.6 KB)

  • Soft band X/K luminosity ratios for gas-poor early-type galaxies
    A. Bogdan and M. Gilfanov
    Accepted: 09 December 2009
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200913651
    PDF file (162.3 KB)

  • The nature of optical and near-infrared variability of BL Lacertae
    V. M.Larionov, M.Villata and C.M.Raiteri
    Accepted: 04 December 2009
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200913536
    PDF file (2.599 MB)

  • Calibration of star formation rate tracers for short and long-lived star formation episodes
    H. Otí-Floranes and J. M. Mas-Hesse
    Accepted: 30 November 2009
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200913384
    PDF file (275.6 KB)

  • Star formation in M 33: the radial and local relations with the gas
    S. Verley, E. Corbelli, C. Giovanardi and L. K. Hunt
    Accepted: 29 November 2009
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200913261
    PDF file (2.352 MB)

  • A long hard look at the minimum state of PG 2112+059 with XMM-Newton
    N. Schartel, P.M. Rodriguez-Pascual, M. Santos-Lleo, E. Jimenez-Bailon, L. Ballo and E. Piconcelli
    Accepted: 28 November 2009
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200912389
    PDF file (514.3 KB)

  • Retardation of non-thermal photon light curves from flaring blazars I. Synchrotron radiation
    B. Eichmann, R. Schlickeiser, and W. Rhode
    Accepted: 28 November 2009
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200912966
    PDF file (325.1 KB)

  • Revisiting the low-luminosity galaxy population of the NGC 5846 group with SDSS
    P. Eigenthaler and W. W. Zeilinger
    Accepted: 26 November 2009
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200811013
    PDF file (320.6 KB)

  • XMM-Newton long-look observation of the narrow line Seyfert 1 galaxy PKS 0558-504.I. Spectral analysis
    I. E. Papadakis, W. Brinkmann, M. Gliozzi, C. Raeth, F. Nicastro, and M. L. Conciatore
    Accepted: 26 November 2009
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200913289
    PDF file (1.453 MB)

  • Star forming galaxies in the AKARI Deep Field South: identifications and spectral energy distributions
    K. Malek, A. Pollo, T. T. Takeuchi, P. Bienias, M. Shirahata, S. Matsuura and M. Kawada
    Accepted: 24 November 2009
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200913419
    PDF file (1.357 MB)

  • VLT/NACO near-infrared imaging and spectroscopy of N88A in the SMC
    G. Testor, J. L. Lemaire, M. Heydari-Malayeri, L. E. Kristensen, S. Diana, and D. Field
    Accepted: 24 November 2009
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200911786
    PDF file (4.350 MB)

  • Dust tori in radio galaxies
    G. van der Wolk, P.D. Barthel, R.F. Peletier and J.W. Pel
    Accepted: 20 November 2009
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200912435
    PDF file (1.304 MB)

  • The baryonic content and Tully-Fisher relation at z~0.6
    M. Puech, F. Hammer, H. Flores, R. Delgado-Serrano, M. Rodrigues, and Y. Yang
    Accepted: 18 November 2009
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200912081
    PDF file (245.5 KB)

  • On the correlation between the X-ray and gamma-ray emission in TeV blazars
    K. Katarzynski and K. Walczewska
    Accepted: 17 November 2009
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200913128
    PDF file (215.4 KB)

  • Spectral ageing analysis and dynamical analysis of the double-double radio galaxy J1548-3216
    J. Machalski, M. Jamrozy, and C. Konar
    Accepted: 17 November 2009
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200912797
    PDF file (2.387 MB)

  • Mechanisms of very high energy radiation in BL Lacertae object 3C 66A
    J. Yang and J. Wang
    Accepted: 16 November 2009
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200913035
    PDF file (221.1 KB)

  • High-resolution X-ray spectroscopy of the Seyfert 1 Mrk 841: insights into the warm absorber and warm emitter
    A.L. Longinotti, E. Costantini, P.O. Petrucci, C. Boisson, M. Mouchet, M. Santos-Lleo, G. Matt, G. Ponti and A. C. Goncalves
    Accepted: 12 November 2009
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200912925
    PDF file (385.7 KB)

  • PKS 2005-489 at VHE: Four years of monitoring with HESS and simultaneous multi-wavelength observations
    F. Acero, F. Aharonian, L. Costamante and et al (HESS Collaboration)
    Accepted: 10 November 2009
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200913073
    PDF file (463.9 KB)

  • Influence of baryonic physics on the merger time-scale of galaxies in N-body/hydrodynamical simulations
    C. Y. Jiang, Y. P. Jing, and W. P. Lin
    Accepted: 07 November 2009
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200913257
    PDF file (168.2 KB)

  • A non-hydrodynamical model for acceleration of line-driven winds in active galactic nuclei
    G. Risaliti and M. Elvis
    Accepted: 04 November 2009
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200912579


  • Properties and environment of radio emitting galaxies in the VLA-zCOSMOS survey
    S. Bardelli, E. Schinnerer, V. Smolcic, G. Zamorani, E. Zucca, M. Mignoli, C. Halliday, K. Kovac, P. Ciliegi, K. Caputi, A. Koekemoer, A. Bongiorno, M. Bondi, M. Bolzonella, D. Vergani, L. Pozzetti, and et al
    Accepted: 22 October 2009
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200912809
    PDF file (1.078 MB)

  • The globular cluster system of NGC 1399.V. Dynamics of the cluster system out to 80 kpc
    Y. Schuberth, T. Richtler, M. Hilker, B. Dirsch, L. P. Bassino, A. J. Romanowsky, and L. Infante
    Accepted: 16 October 2009
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200912482
    PDF file (1.215 MB)

  • VLT spectropolarimetry of the optical transient in NGC300. Evidence of asymmetry in the circumstellar dust
    F. Patat, J.R. Maund, S. Benetti, M.T. Botticella, E. Cappellaro, A. Harutyunyan and M. Turatto
    Accepted: 02 October 2009
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200913083
    PDF file (2.824 MB)

  • The kinematics in the pc-scale jets of AGN. The case of S5 1803+784
    S. Britzen, N.A. Kudryavtseva, A. Witzel, R.M. Campbell, E. Ros, M. Karouzos, A. Mehta, M.F. Aller, H.D. Aller, T. Beckert and J.A. Zensus
    Accepted: 23 August 2008
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/20079267


Galactic structure, stellar clusters and populations

  • Chandra detection of diffuse X-ray emission from the globular cluster Terzan 5
    P. Eger, W. Domainko and A.C. Clapson
    Accepted: 19 January 2010
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200913732
    PDF file (147.5 KB)

  • The NIR Ca II triplet at low metallicity.Searching for extremely low-metallicity stars in classical dwarf galaxies
    E. Starkenburg, V. Hill, E. Tolstoy, J.I. Gonzalez-Hernandez, M. Irwin, A. Helmi, G. Battaglia, P. Jablonka, M. Tafelmeyer, M. Shetrone, K. Venn and T. de Boer
    Accepted: 15 January 2010
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200913759


  • Variations in integrated galactic initial mass functions due to sampling method and cluster mass function
    M.R. Haas and P. Anders
    Accepted: 13 January 2010
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200912967
    PDF file (562, KB)

  • Chemical evolution of the Galactic bulge as traced by microlensed dwarfs and subgiant stars. II. Ages, metallicities, detailed elemental abundances, and connections to the Galactic thick disc
    T. Bensby, S. Feltzing, J.A. Johnson, A. Gould, D. Aden, M. Asplund, J. Melendez, A. Gal-Yam, S. Lucatello, H. Sana, T. Sumi, N. Miyake, D. Suzuki, C. Han, I. Bond and A. Udalski
    Accepted: 06 January 2010
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200913744
    PDF file (1.197 MB)

  • White dwarfs with hydrogen-deficient atmospheres and the dark matter content of the Galaxy
    S. Torres, J. Camacho, J. Isern and E. Garcia-Berro
    Accepted: 16 December 2009
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200912905
    PDF file (513.8 KB)

  • Large and small-scale structures of the Galactic disk. A maximum entropy approach to the stellar velocity distribution
    R. Cubarsi
    Accepted: 10 December 2009
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200912836
    PDF file (2.430 MB)

  • Study of Hubble Space Telescope counterparts to Chandra X-ray sources in the globular cluster M71
    R. H. H. Huang, W. Becker, P. D. Edmonds, R. F. Elsner, C. O. Heinke and B. C. Hsieh
    Accepted: 02 December 2009
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200811245


  • A wide angle view of the Sagittarius dwarf spheroidal galaxy. I. VIMOS photometry and radial velocities across Sgr dSph major and minor axis.
    G. Giuffrida, L. Sbordone, S. Zaggia, G. Marconi, P. Bonifacio, C. Izzo, T. Szeifert and R. Buonanno
    Accepted: 25 November 2009
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200913331


  • Cluster radius and sampling radius in the determination of cluster membership probabilities
    N. Sanchez, B. Vicente and E. Alfaro
    Accepted: 24 November 2009
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200912886
    PDF file (272.7 KB)

  • On the fundamental line of galactic and extragalactic globular clusters
    M. Pasquato and G. Bertin
    Accepted: 02 November 2009
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200912947
    PDF file (201.4 KB)

  • Open clusters in the Third Galactic Quadrant. III. Alleged binary clusters
    R. A. Vazquez, A. Moitinho, G. Carraro and W.S. Dias
    Received: 23 December 2008 / Accepted: 10 August 2009
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200811583
    PDF file (2,82 MB)

Galactic structure, stellar clusters, and populations

  • Peering through the veil: near-infrared photometry and extinction for the Galactic nuclear star cluster. Accurate near infrared H, Ks, and L' photometry and the near-infrard extinction-law toward the central parsec of the Galaxy
    R. Schödel, F. Najarro, K. Muzic, and A. Eckart
    Accepted: 02 December 2009
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200913183
    PDF file (1.462 MB)

  • Disk and halo kinematic populations from HIPPARCOS and Geneva-Copenhagen surveys of the solar neighbourhood
    R. Cubarsi, S. Alcobé, S. Vidojević, and S. Ninković
    Accepted: 18 November 2009
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200912818
    PDF file (1.203 MB)

  • Pre-main sequence stars in the stellar association N11 in the Large Magellanic Cloud
    A. Vallenari, E. Chiosi, and R. Sordo
    Accepted: 16 November 2009
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200913053
    PDF file (1.526 MB)

  • Cosmic-ray driven dynamo in the interstellar medium of irregular galaxies
    H. Siejkowski, M. Soida, K. Otmianowska-Mazur, M. Hanasz, and D. J. Bomans
    Accepted: 15 November 2009
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200912729
    PDF file (755.9 KB)

  • An HST/WFPC2 survey of bright young clusters in M31. IV. Ages and mass estimates
    S. Perina, J. G. Cohen, P. Barmby, M. A. Beasley, M. Bellazzini, J. P. Brodie, L. Federici, F. Fusi Pecci, S. Galleti, P. W. Hodge, J. P. Huchra, M. Kissler-Patig, T. H. Puzia, and J. Strader
    Accepted: 05 November 2009
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200913459
    PDF file (2.734 MB)

  • Chemical abundance analysis of the open clusters Cr110, NGC 2099 (M 37), NGC 2420, NGC 7789, and M 67 (NGC 2682)
    E. Pancino, R. Carrera, E. Rossetti, and C. Gallart
    Accepted: 28 September 2009
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200912965
    PDF file (2.446 MB)

Interstellar and circumstellar matter

  • The density variance. Mach number relation in the Taurus molecular cloud
    C. M. Brunt
    Accepted: 02 February 2010
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200913506


  • The magnetic precursor of L1448-mm: excitation differences between ion and neutral fluids
    J. F. Roberts, I. Jiménez-Serra, J. Martín-Pintado, S. Viti, A. Rodríguez-Franco, A. Faure and J. Tennyson
    Accepted: 01 February 2010
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200913086


  • Large scale magnetic fields in viscous resistive accretion disks I. Ejection from weakly magnetized disks
    G. C. Murphy, J. Ferreira and C. Zanni
    Accepted: 21 January 2010
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200912633
    PDF file (1,19 MB)

  • Gaussian decomposition of HI surveys. V. Search for very cold clouds
    U. Haud
    Accepted: 20 January 2010
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200913349


  • Comparing the statistics of interstellar turbulence in simulations and observations. Solenoidal versus compressive turbulence forcing
    C. Federrath, J. Roman-Duval, R. Klessen, W. Schmidt and M.-M. Mac Low
    Accepted: 15 January 2010
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200912437
    PDF file (3,75 MB)

  • Laboratory simulation of heavy-ion cosmic-ray interaction with condensed CO
    E. Seperuelo Duarte, A. Domaracka, P.Boduch, H.Rothard, E.Dartois and E.F. Da Silveira
    Accepted: 14 January 2010
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200912899
    PDF file (2,50 MB)

  • The environs of the infrared dust bubble N65: a multiwavelenght study
    A. Petriella, S. Paron and E. Giacani
    Accepted: 14 January 2010
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200913617


  • Toward understanding the formation of multiple systems. A pilot IRAM-PdBI survey of Class 0 objects.
    A. J. Maury, Ph. Andre, P. Hennebelle, F. Motte, D. Stamatellos, M. Bate, A. Belloche, G. Duchene and A.Whitworth
    Accepted: 13 January 2010
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200913492
    PDF file (1.466 MB)

  • Rotation-disk connection for very low mass and substellar objects in the Orion Nebula Cluster
    M. V. Rodriguez-Ledesma, R. Mundt and J. Eislöffel
    Accepted: 13 January 2010
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200913494
    PDF file (309, KB)

  • The complex structure of the disk around HD 100546. The inner few astronomical units
    M. Benisty, E. Tatulli, F. Menard and M.R. Swain
    Accepted: 07 January 2010
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200913590


  • Corrigendum. Multiply-deuterated species in prestellar cores. Complete depletion in prestellar cores.
    D.R. Flower, G. Pineau des Forets and C.M. Walmsley
    Accepted: 07 January 2010
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200401464e
    PDF file (95.12 KB)

  • Full two-dimensional radiative transfer modelling of transitional disk LkCa 15
    G.D. Mulders, C. Dominik and M. Min
    Accepted: 05 January 2010
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200912743
    PDF file (176.5 KB)

  • UV emission line shifts of symbiotic binaries
    M. Friedjung, J. Mikolajewska, A. Zajczyk and M. Eriksson
    Accepted: 04 January 2010
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200913438
    PDF file (294.8 KB)

  • Disk and outflow signatures in Orion-KL: The power of high-resolution thermal infrared spectroscopy
    H. Beuther, H. Linz. A. Bik, M. Goto and T. Henning
    Accepted: 04 January 2010
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200913107
    PDF file (1.805 MB)

  • 3D model of bow shocks
    M. Gustafsson, T. Ravkilde, L.E. Kristensen, S. Cabrit, D. Field and G. Pineau des Forets
    Accepted: 04 January 2010
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200912977
    PDF file (1,93 MB)

  • 870 mum observations of evolved stars with LABOCA
    D. Ladjal, K. Justtanont, M.A.T. Groenewegen, J.A.D.L. Blommaert, C. Waelkens and M.J. Barlow
    Accepted: 04 January 2010
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200913147
    PDF file (1,35 MB)

  • Effects of electromagnetic interaction in the polarization of light scattered by cometary and other types of cosmic dust
    L. Kolokolova and H. Kimura
    Accepted: 04 January 2010
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200913681
    PDF file (206, KB)

  • The evolution of planetary nebulae. VI. On the chemical composition of the metal-poor planetary nebula PN G135.9+55.9
    C. Sandin, R. Jacob, D. Schönberner, M. Steffen and M.M. Roth
    Accepted: 22 December 2009
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200911796
    PDF file (450.5 KB)

  • A multi-wavelength study of the young star V1118 Orionis in outburst
    M. Audard, G. S. Stringfellow, M. Gudel, S. L. Skinner, F. M. Walter, E. F. Guinan, R. T. Hamilton, K. R. Briggs and C. Baldovin-Saavedra
    Accepted: 16 December 2009
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200913037
    PDF file (1.844 MB)

  • Radio emission from the massive stars in the galactic super star cluster Westerlund 1
    S.M. Dougherty, J.S. Clark, I. Negueruela, T. Johnson and J.M. Chapman
    Accepted: 16 December 2009
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200913505
    PDF file (893.6 KB)

  • Erratum: Chemical stratification in the Orion Bar: JCMT spectral legacy survey observations
    M.H.D. van der Wiel, F.F.S. van der Tak, V. Ossenkopf, M. Spaans, H. Roberts, G.A. Fuller and R. Plume
    Accepted: 16 December 2009
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200811391e
    PDF file (262.9 KB)

  • The chemical composition of TS 01, the most oxygen-deficient planetary nebula. AGB nucleosynthesis in a metal-poor binary star
    G. Stasinska, C. Morisset, G. Tovmassian, T. Rauch, M. Richer, M. Pena, R. Szczerba, T. Decressin, C. Charbonnel, L. Yungelson, R. Napiwotzki, S. Simon-Diaz and L. Jamet
    Accepted: 15 December 2009
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200912405


  • Abundance anomaly of the 13C Species of CCH
    N. Sakai, O. Saruwatari, T. Sakai, S. Takano and S. Yamamoto
    Accepted: 15 December 2009
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200913098
    PDF file (243.1 KB)

  • X-ray temperatures and their radial distributions from winds of O-type supergiants: the effects of clumps
    J. H. Guo
    Accepted: 15 December 2009
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200912872
    PDF file (227.9 KB)

  • Dust properties of protoplanetary disks in the Taurus-Auriga star forming region from millimeter wavelengths
    L. Ricci, L. Testi, A. Natta, R. Neri, S. Cabrit and G. J. Herczeg
    Accepted: 14 December 2009
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200913403
    PDF file (612.4 KB)

  • Generation of radiative knots in a randomly pulsed protostellar jet. I. Dynamics and energetics
    R. Bonito, S. Orlando, G. Peres, J. Eisloffel, M.Miceli and F.Favata
    Accepted: 09 December 2009
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200913595
    PDF file (395.7 KB)

  • X-ray emitting MHD accretion shocks in classical T Tauri stars. Case for moderate to high plasma-beta values
    S. Orlando, G. G. Sacco, C. Argiroffi, F. Reale, G. Peres, and A. Maggio
    Accepted: 09 December 2009
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200913565
    PDF file (2.076 MB)

  • Resolving the dusty circumstellar environment of the A[e] supergiant HD 62623 with the VLTI/MIDI
    A. Meilland, S. Kanaan, M. Borges Fernandes, O. Chesneau, F. Millour, Ph. Stee and B. Lopez
    Accepted: 09 December 2009
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200913640
    PDF file (707.9 KB)

  • The 15 - 20 µm PAH emission features: probes of individual PAHs?
    C. Boersma, C.W. Bauschlicher Jr., L.J. Allamandola, A. Ricca, E. Peeters and A.G.G.M. Tielens
    Accepted: 08 December 2009
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200912714
    PDF file (1.750 MB)

  • IR diagnostics of embedded jets : kinematics and physical characteristics of the HH46-47 jet
    R. Garcia Lopez, B.Nisini, J.Eislöffel, T.Giannini, F.Bacciotti and L. Podio
    Accepted: 06 December 2009
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200913304
    PDF file (814.0 KB)

  • O18O and C18O observations of rho Ophiuchi A
    R. Liseau, B. Larsson, P. Bergman, L. Pagani, J.H. Black, Å. Hjalmarson and K. Justtanont
    Accepted: 05 December 2009
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200913567


  • The destruction and survival of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in the disks of T Tauri stars
    R. Siebenmorgen and E. Krügel
    Accepted: 04 December 2009
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200912035
    PDF file (253.2 KB)

  • H2CO and CH3OH maps of the Orion Bar photodissociation region
    S. Leurini, B. Parise, P. Schilke, J. Pety and R. Rolffs
    Accepted: 04 December 2009
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200912484
    PDF file (1.039 MB)

  • L1506 : a prestellar core in the making
    L. Pagani, I. Ristorcelli, N. Boudet, M. Giard, A. Abergel and J.P. Bernard
    Accepted: 02 December 2009
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200912859
    PDF file (821.7 KB)

  • Direct evidence of dust growth in L183 from mid-infrared light scattering
    J. Steinacker, L. Pagani, A. Bacmann and S. Guieu
    Accepted: 30 November 2009
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200912835
    PDF file (1.514 MB)

  • Nitrogen chemistry and depletion in starless cores
    P. Hily-Blant, M. Walmsley, G. Pineau des Forêts and D. Flower
    Accepted: 30 November 2009
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200913200
    PDF file (1.063 MB)

  • The large-scale magnetic field in the fourth Galactic quadrant
    T. Nota and P. Katgert
    Accepted: 28 November 2009
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200911803


  • High-resolution visible spectroscopy of the jet-driving star Th 28
    F. Comeron and M. Fernandez
    Accepted: 25 November 2009
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200912959
    PDF file (151.9 KB)

  • The thermodynamics of molecular cloud fragmentation. Star formation under non-Milky Way conditions
    S. Hocuk and M. Spaans
    Accepted: 23 November 2009
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200912236


  • Nonthermal and thermal emission from the supernova remnant RX J1713.7-394
    E. G. Berezhko and H. J. Völk
    Accepted: 19 November 2009
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200913312
    PDF file (168.0 KB)

  • A millimeter survey of ultra-compact HII-regions and associated molecular clouds
    E. Churchwell, A. Sievers, and C. Thum
    Accepted: 18 November 2009
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200912241
    PDF file (438.3 KB)

  • Timescale of mass accretion in pre-main-sequence stars
    D. Fedele, M. E. van den Ancker, Th. Henning, R. Jayawardhana, and J. Oliveira
    Accepted: 17 November 2009
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200912810
    PDF file (752.1 KB)

  • Transient evolution of C-type shocks in dusty regions of varying density
    I. Ashmore, S. Van Loo, P. Caselli, S. A.E.G. Falle, and T. W. Hartquist
    Accepted: 16 November 2009
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200913277
    PDF file (1.558 MB)

  • The outcome of protoplanetary dust growth: pebbles, boulders, or planetesimals? I. Mapping the zoo of laboratory collision experiments
    C. Güttler, J. Blum, A. Zsom, C. W. Ormel, and C. P. Dullemond
    Accepted: 16 November 2009
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200912852
    PDF file (606.2 KB)

  • Trapping of solids at the inner edge of the dead zone:3D global MHD simulations
    N. S. Dzyurkevich, M. Flock, N. J. Turner, H. Klahr and Th. Henning
    Accepted: 16 November 2009
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200912834


  • The ISO Long Wavelength Spectrometer line spectrum of VY Canis Majoris and other oxygen-rich evolved stars
    E. T. Polehampton, K. M. Menten, F. F. S. van der Tak, and G. J. White
    Accepted: 10 November 2009
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200913310
    PDF file (642.7 KB)

  • A multiwavelength study towards IRAS 18544+0112: discovery of a compact HII region
    M. Ortega, S. Paron, S. Cichowolski, M. Rubio, G. Castelletti, and G. Dubner
    Accepted: 06 November 2009
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200912722
    PDF file (1.044 MB)

  • The interface between the stellar wind and interstellar medium around R Cassiopeiae revealed by far-infrared imaging
    T. Ueta, R. E. Stencel, I. Yamamura, K. M. Geise, A. Karska, H. Izumiura, Y. Nakada, M. Matsuura, Y. Ita, T. Tanabé, H. Fukushi, N. Matsunaga, H. Mito, and A. K. Speck
    Accepted: 06 November 2009
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200913455
    PDF file (269.6 KB)

  • The clumpiness of molecular clouds: HCO+ (3-2) survey near of Herbig-Haro objects
    W. Whyatt, J. M. Girart, S. Viti, R. Estalella, and D. A. Williams
    Accepted: 06 November 2009
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/20078350
    PDF file (602.1 KB)

  • Looking for high-mass young stellar objects: H2O and OH masers in ammonia cores
    C. Codella, R. Cesaroni, A. Lopez-Sepulcre, M. T. Beltran, R. Furuya, and L. Testi
    Accepted: 05 November 2009
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200913371
    PDF file (943.4 KB)

  • VERA observations of SiO maser emission from R Aquarii
    R. Kamohara, V. Bujarrabal, M. Honma, A. Nakagawa, N. Matsumoto, T. Oyama, T. Hirota, H. Imai, K. M. Shibata, H. Kobayashi, K. Sato, and Y. Ueno
    Accepted: 05 November 2009
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200912439
    PDF file (460.0 KB)

  • Strong near-infrared emission in the sub-AU disk of the Herbig Ae star HD 163296: evidence of refractory dust?
    M. Benisty, A. Natta, A. Isella, J-P. Berger, F. Massi, J-B. Le Bouquin, G. Duvert, S. Kraus, F. Malbet, J. Olofsson, L. Testi, and G. Weigelt
    Accepted: 03 November 2009
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200912898
    PDF file (488.3 KB)

  • CHAMP+ observations of warm gas in M17 SW
    J. P. Perez-Beaupuits, M. Spaans, M. Hogerheijde, R. Gusten, A. Baryshev, and W. Boland
    Accepted: 26 October 2009
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200913077
    PDF file (900.1 KB)

  • 2MASS wide field extinction maps: III. The Taurus, Perseus, and California cloud complexes
    M. Lombardi, C. Lada and J. Alves
    Accepted: 20 October 2009
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200912670
    PDF file (3.218 MB)

  • Properties of active galactic star-forming regions probed by imaging spectroscopy with the Fourier transform spectrometer (FTS) onboard AKARI
    Y. Okada, M. Kawada, N. Murakami, T. Ootsubo, H. Takahashi, A. Yasuda, D. Ishihara, H. Kaneda, H. Kataza, T. Nakagawa, and T. Onaka
    Accepted: 13 October 2009
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200912489
    PDF file (467.6 KB)

  • On the evolution of warped and twisted accretion discs in close binary systems
    M. Fragner and R. Nelson
    Received: 07 August 2009 / Accepted: 02 October 2009
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200913088


  • The abundance of HNCO and its use as diagnostic of environment
    D. Tideswell, G. Fuller, T. Millar, and A. Markwick-Kemper
    Accepted: 22 September 2009
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200810820
    PDF file (156.1 KB)

  • The interstellar medium surrounding the Scorpius-Centaurus association revisited
    W. G.L. Pöppel, E. Bajaja, E. M. Arnal, and R. Morras
    Accepted: 04 September 2009
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200811290
    PDF file (4.475 MB)

Stellar structure and evolution

  • Magnetic Doppler imaging of alpha2 Canum Venaticorum in all four Stokes parameters. Unveiling the hidden complexity of stellar magnetic fields
    O. Kochukhov and G.A. Wade
    Accepted: 28 January 2010
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200913860
    PDF file (3,38 MB)

  • SuperWASP observations of long timescale photometric variations in cataclysmic variables
    N L Thomas, A J Norton, D Pollaco, R G West, P J Wheatley, B Enoch and W.I. Clarkson
    Accepted: 26 January 2010
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200912650
    PDF file (774 KB)

  • The end of the white dwarf cooling sequence in M67
    A. Bellini, L. R. Bedin, G. Piotto, M. Salaris, J. Anderson, E. Brocato, R. Ragazzoni, S. Ortolani, I. Platais, R. Gilliland, G. Raimondo, A. Bragaglia, M. Tosi, S. Gallozzi, V. Testa, E. Giallongo, A. Baruffolo, J. Farinato, E. Diolaiti and et al.
    Accepted: 20 January 2010
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200913721
    PDF file (3.11 MB)

  • The influence of model parameters on the prediction of gravitational wave signals from stellar core collapse
    S. Scheidegger, R. Käppeli, S.C. Whitehouse, T. Fischer and M. Liebendörfer
    Accepted: 18 January 2010
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200913220


  • Axions and the pulsation periods of variable white dwarfs revisited
    J. Isern, E. García-Berro, L. G. Althaus and A. H.Córsico
    Accepted: 16 January 2010
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200913716


  • New seismic analysis of the exoplanet-host star mu Arae
    M. Soriano and S. Vauclair
    Accepted: 15 January 2010
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200911862
    PDF file (789.3 KB)

  • Gamma Cassiopeiae: an X-ray Be star with personality
    R. Lopes de Oliveira, M. A. Smith and C. Motch
    Accepted: 06 January 2010
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200811319
    PDF file (490.1 KB)

  • A survey for pulsating subdwarf B stars with the Nordic Optical Telescope
    R. H. Østensen, R. Oreiro, J.E. Solheim, U. Heber, R. Silvotti, J. M. Gonzalez-Perez, A. Ulla, F. Perez Hernandez, C. Rodrıguez-Lopez and J. H. Telting
    Accepted: 06 January 2010
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200913480
    PDF file (531 KB)

  • On the relation of hard X-ray peak flux and outburst waiting time in the black hole transient GX 339-4
    Y. X. Wu, W. Yu, Z. Yan, L. Sun and T. P. Li
    Accepted: 05 January 2010
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200913539
    PDF file (605.2 KB)

  • On the nature of the Cygnus X-2 like Z-track sources
    M. Balucinska-Church, A. Gibiec, N. K. Jackson and M. J. Church
    Accepted: 31 December 2009
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200913199
    PDF file (592.4 KB)

  • A search for pulsations from the compact object of GRB 060218
    N. Mirabal and E. V. Gotthelf
    Accepted: 19 December 2009
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200912779


  • Optical/infrared observations of the X-ray burster KS1731-260 in quiescence
    C. Zurita, E. Kuulkers, R.M. Bandyopadhyay, E.M. Cackett, P.J. Groot, J.A. Orosz, M.A.P. Torres and R. Wijnands
    Accepted: 18 December 2009
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200913061
    PDF file (300.3 KB)

  • Characterizing black hole variability with nonlinear methods: the case of the X-ray Nova 4U 1543-47
    M. Gliozzi, C. Räth, I.E. Papadakis and P.Reig
    Accepted: 17 December 2009
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200912948
    PDF file (3.599 MB)

  • Hot Jupiters and the evolution of stellar angular momentum
    A.F. Lanza
    Accepted: 17 December 2009
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200912789
    PDF file (311, KB)

  • Echo outbursts in KS 1731-260
    V. Simon
    Received: 10 March 2009 / Accepted: 17 December 2009
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200912022


  • The distance to the cool T9 brown dwarf. ULAS J003402.77-005206.7
    R.L. Smart, H. R. A. Jones, M. G. Lattanzi, S. K. Leggett, A. J. Adamson, B. Burningham, M. Casali, D. W.Evans, M. J. Irwin, D. Pinfield and S. Warren
    Accepted: 16 December 2009
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200913633
    PDF file (116.8 KB)

  • Age distribution of the central stars of galactic disk planetary nebulae
    W.J. Maciel, R. D. D. Costa and T. E. P. Idiart
    Accepted: 16 December 2009
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200912499
    PDF file (171.4 KB)

  • Uncertainties and robustness of the ignition process in type Ia supernovae
    L. Iapichino and P. Lesaffre
    Accepted: 15 December 2009
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200913306
    PDF file (257.8 KB)

  • Atomic diffusion during red giant evolution
    G. Michaud, J. Richer and O. Richard
    Accepted: 15 December 2009
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200912328
    PDF file (681.5 KB)

  • Spectroscopic search for g-mode pulsations in psi Centauri
    L. Mantegazza, M. Rainer and E. Antonello
    Accepted: 15 December 2009
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200913013
    PDF file (425.9 KB)

  • RACE-OC project: rotation and variability in the open cluster M11 (NGC6705)
    S. Messina, P. Parihar, J.-R. Koo, S.-L. Kim, S.-C. Rey and C.-U. Lee
    Accepted: 15 December 2009
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200912373
    PDF file (7.648 MB)

  • Evolution of massive AGB stars. III. the thermally pulsing super-AGB phase
    L. Siess
    Accepted: 15 December 2009
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200913556
    PDF file (1.180 MB)

  • Periodic variability in the emission spectrum of T Tauri
    N. Z. Ismailov, N. K. Quliev, O. V. Khalilov and W. Herbst
    Accepted: 15 December 2009
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200913540
    PDF file (603.3 KB)

  • The eclipsing, double-lined, Of supergiant binary Cygnus OB2-B17
    V. E. Stroud, J. S. Clark, I. Negueruela, P. Roche, A. J. Norton and F. Vilardell
    Accepted: 15 December 2009
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200912123
    PDF file (1,21 MB)

  • Determining global parameters of the oscillations of solar-like stars
    S. Mathur, R.A. Garcia, C. Regulo, O.L. Creevey, J. Ballot, D. Salabert, T. Arentoft, P.O. Quirion, W.J. Chaplin and H. Kjeldsen
    Accepted: 15 December 2009
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200913266
    PDF file (1.525 MB)

  • Distance determination for RAVE stars using stellar models
    M.A Breddels, M.C. Smith, A. Helmi and et al.
    Accepted: 15 December 2009
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200912471


  • Gravitational settling in pulsating subdwarf B stars and their progenitors
    H. Hu, E. Glebbeek, A.A. Thoul, M.-A. Dupret, R.J. Stancliffe, G.Nelemans and C. Aerts
    Accepted: 15 December 2009
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200912290
    PDF file (297.6 KB)

  • A detailed study of the main sequence of the globular cluster NGC 6397: can we derive constraints on the existence of multiple population?
    M. Di Criscienzo, F. D'Antona and P. Ventura
    Accepted: 15 December 2009
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200912516
    PDF file (820.3 KB)

  • Two Type Ic supernovae in low-metallicity, dwarf galaxies: diversity of explosions
    D. R. Young, S. J. Smartt, S. Valenti, A. Pastorello, S. Benetti, C. R. Benn, D. Bersier, M. T. Botticella, R. L. M. Corradi, A. H. Harutyunyan, M. Hrudkova, I. Hunter, S. Mattila, E. J. W. de Mooij, H. Navasardyan, I. A. G. Snellen, N. R. Tanvir and L.Zampieri
    Accepted: 15 December 2009
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200913004
    PDF file (1.581 MB)

  • Absolute dimensions of solar-type eclipsing binaries. III. EW Orionis: Stellar evolutionary models tested by a G0 V system
    J.V. Clausen, H. Bruntt, E.H. Olsen, B.E. Helt and A. Claret
    Accepted: 14 December 2009
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200913698
    PDF file (369.2 KB)

  • The detached dust and gas shells around the carbon star U Antliae
    M. Maercker, H. Olofsson, K. Eriksson, B. Gustafsson and F.L. Schöier
    Accepted: 10 December 2009
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200913376
    PDF file (1014 KB)

  • The radius and effective temperature of the binary Ap star beta CrB from CHARA/FLUOR and VLT/NACO observations
    H. Bruntt, P. Kervella, A. Merand, I. M. Brandao, T. R. Bedding, T. A. ten Brummelaar, V. Coudé du Foresto, M. S. Cunha, C. Farrington, P. J. Goldfinger, L. L. Kiss, H. A. McAlister, S. T. Ridgway, J. Sturmann, L. Sturmann, N. Turner and P. G. Tuthill
    Accepted: 10 December 2009
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200913405
    PDF file (399.9 KB)

  • The peculiar high-mass X-ray binary 1ES 1210-646
    N. Masetti, R. Landi, V. Sguera, F. Capitanio, L. Bassani, A. Bazzano, A.J. Bird, A. Malizia and E. Palazzi
    Accepted: 07 December 2009
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200913404
    PDF file (355.7 KB)

  • Absolute dimensions of eclipsing binaries. XXVII. V1130 Tauri:A metal-weak F-type system, perhaps with preference for Y = 0.23-0.24
    J.V. Clausen, E.H. Olsen, B.E. Helt and A. Claret
    Accepted: 04 December 2009
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200913700
    PDF file (475.1 KB)

  • The complex behaviour of the microquasar GRS 1915+105 in the rhô class oberved with BeppoSAX. I:Timing analysis
    E. Massaro, G. Ventura, F. Massa, M. Feroci, T. Mineo, G. Cusumano, P. Casella and T. Belloni
    Accepted: 01 December 2009
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200912908
    PDF file (3,81 MB)

  • Orbital periods of cataclysmic variables identified by the SDSS. VII. Four new eclipsing systems
    J. Southworth, C. Copperwheat, B. Gansicke, and S. Pyrzas
    Accepted: 30 November 2009
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200913576
    PDF file (1.384 MB)

  • SGR-like flaring activity of the anomalous X-ray pulsar 1E 1547-5408
    V. Savchenko, A. Neronov, V. Beckmann, N. Produit, and R. Walter
    Accepted: 24 November 2009
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200911988
    PDF file (344.0 KB)

  • On the kinematic age of brown dwarfs: radial velocities and space motion of 43 nearby L dwarfs
    A. Seifahrt, A.Reiners, K. A. M. Almaghrbi and G. Basri
    Accepted: 23 November 2009
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200913368


  • The spectroscopic evolution of the symbiotic star AG Draconis.I. The O VI Raman, Balmer, and helium emission line variations during the outburst of 2006-2008
    S. N. Shore, G. M. Wahlgren, K. Genovali, S. Bernabei, P. Koubsky, M. Slechta, P. Skoda, A. Skopal, and M. Wolf
    Accepted: 23 November 2009
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200913367
    PDF file (349.3 KB)

  • The nature of p-modes and granulation in HD 49933 observed by CoRoT
    T. Kallinger, M. Gruberbauer, D. B. Guenther, L. Fossati and W. W. Weiss
    Accepted: 20 November 2009
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200811438
    PDF file (733.8 KB)

  • Predicted gamma-ray line emission from the Cygnus complex
    P. Martin, J. Knödlseder, G. Meynet and R. Diehl
    Accepted: 17 November 2009
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200912864
    PDF file (695.1 KB)

  • Type-I bursts within outbursts of IGR J17473-2721
    Y. P. Chen, S. Zhang, D. F. Torres, J. M. Wang, and T. P. Li
    Accepted: 31 October 2009
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200912647
    PDF file (1.651 MB)

  • Correlation between technetium and lithium in a sample of oxygen-rich AGB variables
    S. Uttenthaler and T. Lebzelter
    Accepted: 27 October 2009
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200912548
    PDF file (280.0 KB)

  • X-rays from the eclipsing millisecond pulsar PSR J1740-5340 in the globular cluster NGC 6397
    H. H. Huang and W. Becker
    Accepted: 07 October 2009
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200913100
    PDF file (182.2 KB)

Stellar atmospheres

  • Mass fluxes for hot stars
    L.B. Lucy
    Accepted: 20 January 2010
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200913400
    PDF file (280 KB)

  • Chemical similarities between Galactic bulge and local thick disk red giants: O, Na, Mg, Al, Si, Ca and Ti
    A. Alves-Brito, J. Melendez, M. Asplund, I. Ramirez and D. Yong
    Accepted: 13 January 2010
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200913444
    PDF file (533, KB)

  • An absolutely calibrated Teff scale from the infrared flux method. Dwarfs and subgiants
    L. Casagrande, I. Ramirez, J. Melendez, M. Bessell and M. Asplund
    Accepted: 06 January 2010
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200913204
    PDF file (2,34 MB)

  • Lithium abundances of halo dwarfs based on excitation temperature. II. Non-local thermodynamic equilibrium
    A. Hosford, A.E. Garcia Perez, R. Collet, S.G. Ryan, J.E. Norris and K.A. Olive
    Accepted: 04 January 2010
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200913693
    PDF file (461.5 KB)

  • Spectropolarimetric multi line analysis of stellar magnetic fields
    J. Ramirez Velez, M. Semel, M. Stift, M.J. Martinez Gonzalez, P. Petit and N. Dunstone
    Accepted: 20 December 2009
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200810484
    PDF file (1.782 MB)

  • Multi-wavelength observations of a giant flare on CN Leonis.II. Chromospheric modelling with PHOENIX
    B. Fuhrmeister, J. H. M. M. Schmitt and P. H. Hauschildt
    Accepted: 15 December 2009
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200810224
    PDF file (320.4 KB)

  • Three carbon-enhanced metal-poor dwarf stars from the SDSS. Chemical abundances from CO5BOLD 3D hydrodynamical model atmospheres
    N.T. Behara, P. Bonifacio, H.-G. Ludwig, L. Sbordone, J.I. Gonzalez Hernandez and E. Caffau
    Accepted: 15 December 2009
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200913213


  • An effective temperature calibration for solar-type stars using line equivalent width ratios. A fast and easy spectroscopic temperature estimation
    S.G. Sousa, A. Alapini, G. Israelian and N. C. Santos
    Accepted: 08 December 2009
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200913388
    PDF file (2.273 MB)

  • VLTI/AMBER spectro-interferometric imaging of VX Sagittarii's inhomogenous outer atmosphere
    A. Chiavassa, S. Lacour, F. Millour, T. Driebe, M. Wittkowski, B. Plez, E. Thiebeaut, E. Josselin, B. Freytag, M. Scholz and X. Haubois
    Accepted: 23 November 2009
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200913288
    PDF file (524.1 KB)

  • Hot and cool: two emission-line stars with constrasting behaviours in the same XMM-Newton field
    Y. Nazé, G. Rauw, and A. ud-Doula
    Accepted: 16 November 2009
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200913118
    PDF file (321.1 KB)

  • Epsilon Indi Ba, Bb: a detailed study of the nearest known brown dwarfs
    R. R. King, M. J. McCaughrean, D. Homeier, F. Allard, R.-D. Scholz, and N. Lodieu
    Accepted: 06 November 2009
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200912981
    PDF file (2.808 MB)

  • Near-infrared survey of high mass X-ray binary candidates
    J. M. Torrejon, I. Negueruela, D. M. Smith, and T. E. Harrison
    Accepted: 18 October 2009
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200912619
    PDF file (674.1 KB)

The Sun

  • Long period oscillations in sunspots
    N. Chorley, B. Hnat, V. M. Nakariakov, A. R. Inglis and I. A. Bakunina
    Accepted: 23 January 2010
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200913683
    PDF file (1,24 MB)

  • Magnetic reconnection at 3D null points: effect of magnetic field asymmetry
    A.K. Al-Hachami and D.I. Pontin
    Accepted: 23 January 2010
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200913002
    PDF file (707, KB)

  • Test particle acceleration in a numerical MHD experiment of an anemone jet
    K.J. Rosdahl and K. Galsgaard
    Accepted: 23 December 2009
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200913541
    PDF file (12.78 MB)

  • Probing quiet Sun magnetism using MURaM simulations and Hinode/SP results: support for a local dynamo
    S.Danilovic, M. Schüssler and S.K. Solanki
    Accepted: 23 December 2009
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200913379
    PDF file (1.41 MB)

  • A microflare with hard X-ray-correlated gyroresonance line emission at 314 MHz
    H. Aurass, G. Rausche, S. Berkebile-Stoiser and A. Veronig
    Accepted: 18 December 2009
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200913132
    PDF file (795.1 KB)

  • The role of aerodynamic drag in propagation of interplanetary coronal mass ejections
    B. Vrsnak, T. Zic, T. Falkenberg, C. Moestl, S. Vennerstrom and D. Vrbanec
    Accepted: 17 December 2009
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200913482
    PDF file (298.2 KB)

  • Chromospheric magnetic reconnection caused by photospheric flux emergence: implications for jet-like events formation
    J. Y. Ding, M. S. Madjarska, J. G. Doyle and Q. M. Lu
    Accepted: 17 December 2009
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200913101
    PDF file (1.731 MB)

  • Time damping of non-adiabatic magnetohydrodynamic waves in a partially ionized prominence plasma: Effect of helium
    R. Soler, R. Oliver and J. L. Ballester
    Accepted: 14 December 2009
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200913478
    PDF file (433.8 KB)

  • Propagating magneto-hydrodynamic waves in a cooling homogenous coronal plasma
    R.J. Morton, A.W. Hood and R. Erdelyi
    Accepted: 11 December 2009
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200913365
    PDF file (1.812 MB)

  • Heavy coronal ions in the heliosphere.I. Global distribution of charge-states of C, N, O, Mg, Si and S
    S. Grzedzielski, M. E. Wachowicz, M. Bzowski, and V. Izmodenov
    Accepted: 02 December 2009
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200809900
    PDF file (1.225 MB)

  • Nonlinear force-free modelling: influence of inaccuracies in the measured magnetic vector
    T. Wiegelmann, L. Yelles Chaouche, S.K. Solanki and A. Lagg
    Accepted: 02 December 2009
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200912812
    PDF file (2.678 MB)

  • Measuring line formation depths by cross-spectral analysis. Numerical simulations for the 630 nm Fe i line pair
    C. Grec, H. Uitenbroek, M. Faurobert and C. Aime
    Accepted: 02 December 2009
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200811455
    PDF file (495.6 KB)

  • On the power spectrum of solar surface flows
    M. Rieutord, T. Roudier, F. Rincon, J.M. Malherbe, N. Meunier, T. Berger and Z. Frank
    Accepted: 20 November 2009
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200913303
    PDF file (774.7 KB)

  • Dynamics of isolated magnetic bright points derived from Hinode/SOT G-band observations
    D. Utz, A. Hanslmeier, R. Muller, A. Veronig, J. Rybak, and H. Muthsam
    Accepted: 20 November 2009
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200913085
    PDF file (438.1 KB)

  • Linear wavelength correlation matrices of photospheric and chromospheric spectral lines. I. Observations vs. modeling
    C. A.R. Beck and W. Rammacher
    Accepted: 13 November 2009
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200912104
    PDF file (1.765 MB)

  • Diagnostics of energetic electrons with anisotropic distributions in solar flares.I. Hard X-rays bremsstrahlung emission
    V.V. Zharkova, A.A.Kuznetsov and T.V.Siversky
    Accepted: 12 November 2009
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200811486
    PDF file (1.341 MB)

  • The three-dimensional structure of sunspots II. The moat flow at two different heights
    H. Balthasar and K. Muglach
    Accepted: 02 November 2009
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200912978
    PDF file (800.3 KB)

  • Excitation of vertical kink waves in a solar coronal arcade loop by a periodic driver
    M. Selwa, K. Murawski, S. K. Solanki and L. Ofman
    Accepted: 21 October 2009
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200912603
    PDF file (3.276 MB)

  • Hanle signatures of the coronal magnetic field in the linear polarization of the hydrogen L alpha line
    M. Derouich, F. Auchère, J. C. Vial and M. Zhang
    Accepted: 21 October 2009
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200912824
    PDF file (1012 KB)

  • Magnetic loop emergence within a granule
    P. Gomory, C. Beck, H. Balthasar, J. Rybak, A. Kucera, J. Koza, and H. Wohl
    Accepted: 29 August 2009
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200912807
    PDF file (1.831 MB)

Planets and planetary systems

  • Gas- and dust evolution in protoplanetary disks
    T. Birnstiel, C.P. Dullemond and F. Brauer
    Accepted: 26 January 2010
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200913731


  • Origin of the near-Earth asteroid Phaethon and the Geminids meteor shower
    J. de Leon, H. Campins, K. Tsiganis, A. Morbidelli and J. Licandro
    Accepted: 26 January 2010
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200913609
    PDF file (563.6 KB)

  • The activity of comet C/2007 D1 (LINEAR) at 9.7 AU from the Sun
    E. Mazzotta Epifani, M. Dall'Ora, L. Di Fabrizio, J. Licandro, P. Palumbo and L. Colangeli
    Accepted: 05 January 2010
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200913535
    PDF file (309, KB)

  • Transiting exoplanets from the CoRoT space mission. IX. CoRoT-6b: a transiting `hot Jupiter' planet in a 8.9d orbit around a low-metallicity star
    M.Fridlund, G. Hebrard, R. Alonso, M. Deleuil, D. Gandolfi, M. Gillon, H. Bruntt, A. Alapini, Sz. Csizmadia, T. Guillot, H. Lammer, S. Aigrain, J.M. Almenara, M. Auvergne, A. Baglin, P. Barge and P. Borde et al
    Accepted: 04 January 2010
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200913767
    PDF file (1.380 MB)

  • Orbital parameters of extrasolar planets derived from polarimetry
    D. M. Fluri and S. V. Berdyugina
    Accepted: 29 December 2009
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200809970
    PDF file (433.1 KB)

  • The HARPS search for southern extra-solar planets. XXII. Multiple planet systems from the HARPS volume limited sample
    G. Lo Curto, M. Mayor, W. Benz, F. Bouchy, C. Lovis, C. Moutou, D. Naef, F. Pepe, D. Queloz, N. Santos, D. Segransan and S. Udry
    Accepted: 29 December 2009
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200913523
    PDF file (637, KB)

  • Asteroid's spin axis distribution
    A. Marciniak. T. Michałowski
    Accepted: 22 December 2009
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200913692
    PDF file (40.94 KB)

  • Clouds in the atmospheres of extrasolar planets. I. Climatic effects of multi-layered clouds for Earth-like planets and implications for habitable zones
    D. Kitzmann, A.B.C. Patzer, P. von Paris, M. Godolt, B. Stracke, S. Gebauer, J.L. Grenfell and H. Rauer
    Accepted: 22 December 2009
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200913491
    PDF file (1.956 MB)

  • The validity of the super-particle approximation during planetesimal formation
    H. Rein, G. Lesur and Z. M. Leinhardt
    Accepted: 22 December 2009
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200912870
    PDF file (364.9 KB)

  • Near-infrared integral-field spectra of the planet/brown dwarf companion AB Pictoris b
    M.Bonnefoy, G. Chauvin, P. Rojo, F. Allard, A.-M. Lagrange, C. Dumas and J.L. Beuzit
    Accepted: 22 December 2009
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200912688
    PDF file (764.9 KB)

  • Mapping the methane on Mars
    S. Fonti and G. A. Marzo
    Accepted: 22 December 2009
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200913178
    PDF file (1,13 MB)

  • Characterisation of candidate members of (136108) Haumea's family
    C. Snodgrass, B. Carry, C. Dumas and O. Hainaut
    Accepted: 14 December 2009
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200913031
    PDF file (282.2 KB)

  • Do stellar magnetic cycles influence the measurement of precise radial velocities?
    N.C. Santos, J. Gomes da Silva, C. Lovis and C. Melo
    Accepted: 14 December 2009
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200913433
    PDF file (607.9 KB)

  • Multi-band transit observations of the TrES-2b exoplanet
    D.Mislis, S. Schroter, J.H.H.M. Schmitt, O. Cordes and K.Reif
    Accepted: 14 December 2009
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200912910
    PDF file (331.7 KB)

  • The HARPS search for southern extra-solar planets. XXI. Three new giant planets orbiting the metal-poor stars HD5388, HD181720, and HD190984
    N.C. Santos, M. Mayor, W. Benz, F. Bouchy, P. Figueira, G. Lo Curto, C. Lovis, C. Melo, C. Moutou, D. Naef, F. Pepe, D. Queloz, S.G. Sousa and S. Udry
    Accepted: 14 December 2009
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200913489
    PDF file (314.6 KB)

  • A numerical model of cometary dust coma structures: Application to comet 9P/Tempel 1
    J.-B. Vincent, H. Boehnhardt and L.M. Lara
    Accepted: 10 December 2009
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200913418


  • Radial velocities with CRIRES. Pushing precision down to 5-10 m/s
    P. Figueira, F. Pepe, C. H. F. Melo, N. C. Santos, C. Lovis, M. Mayor, D. Queloz, A. Smette and S. Udry
    Accepted: 10 December 2009
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200912681
    PDF file (1.045 MB)

  • Using the Sun to estimate Earth-like planets detection capabilities.II. Impact of plages
    N. Meunier, M. Desort and A.M. Lagrange
    Accepted: 10 December 2009
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200913551
    PDF file (1.080 MB)

  • Neptune's atmospheric composition from AKARI infrared spectroscopy
    L.N. Fletcher, P. Drossart, M. Burgdorf, G.S. Orton and T. Encrenaz
    Accepted: 08 December 2009
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200913358
    PDF file (1.442 MB)

  • The HARPS search for southern extra-solar planets. XX. Planets around the active star BD-08°2823
    G. Hebrard, S. Udry, G. Lo Curto, N. Robichon, D. Naef, D. Ehrenreich, W. Benz, F. Bouchy, A. Lecavelier des Etangs, C. Lovis, M. Mayor, C. Moutou, F. Pepe, D. Queloz, N. C. Santos and D. Segransan
    Accepted: 08 December 2009
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200913525
    PDF file (4.722 MB)

  • Studying the jovian Trojan dust
    G. C. de Elía and A. Brunini
    Accepted: 08 December 2009
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200911999
    PDF file (255, KB)

  • Evidence of a massive planet candidate orbiting the young active K5V star BD+20 1790
    M. Hernán-Obispo, M.C. Gálvez -Ortiz, G. Anglada-Escudé, S.R. Kane, J.R. Barnes, E. de Castro and M. Cornide
    Accepted: 04 December 2009
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200811000
    PDF file (669.9 KB)

  • The thermal emission of the young and massive planet CoRoT-2b at 4.5 and 8 mum
    M. Gillon, A. A. Lanotte, T. Barman, N. Miller, B.O. Demory, M. Deleuil, J. Montalban, F. Bouchy, A. Collier Cameron, H. J. Deeg, J. J. Fortney, M. Fridlund, J. Harrington, P. Magain, C. Moutou, D. Queloz, H. Rauer, D. Rouan and J. Schneider
    Accepted: 26 November 2009
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200913507
    PDF file (631.0 KB)

  • A cometary origin for CO in the stratosphere of Saturn?
    T. Cavalié, P. Hartogh, F. Billebaud, M. Dobrijevic, T. Fouchet, E. Lellouch, T. Encrenaz, J. Brillet and G.H. Moriarty-Schieven
    Accepted: 24 November 2009
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200912909
    PDF file (3.182 MB)

  • X-rays from Saturn: a study with XMM-Newton and Chandra over the years 2002-05
    G. Branduardi-Raymont, A. Bhardwaj, R. F. Elsner, and P. Rodriguez
    Accepted: 24 November 2009
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200913110
    PDF file (223.1 KB)

  • Photometric survey of the very small near-Earth asteroids with the SALT telescope. III. Lightcurves and periods for 12 objects and negative detections
    T. Kwiatkowski, M. Polinska, D. A.H. Buckley, D. O'Donoghue, A. Kniazev, N. Loaring, and E. Romero Colmenero
    Accepted: 24 November 2009
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200913468
    PDF file (503.1 KB)

  • Order statistics and heavy-tailed distributions for planetary perturbations on Oort cloud comets
    R. S. Stoica, S. Liu, Yu. Davydov, M. Fouchard, A. Vienne and G. B. Valsecchi
    Accepted: 19 November 2009
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200912871


  • The trans-Neptunian object (42355) Typhon: composition and dynamical evolution
    A. Alvarez-Candal, M. A. Barucci, F. Merlin, C. de Bergh, S. Fornasier, A. Guilbert, and S. Protopapa
    Accepted: 17 November 2009
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200913102
    PDF file (1.197 MB)

  • Near-infrared laboratory spectra of H2O trapped in N2, CH4, and CO: hints for trans-Neptunian objects' observations
    D. Fulvio, S. Guglielmino, T. Favone and M.E. Palumbo
    Accepted: 16 November 2009
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200912893
    PDF file (1.646 MB)

  • Using the Sun to estimate Earth-like planets detection capabilities. I.Impact of cold spots
    A.-M. Lagrange, M. Desort and N. Meunier
    Accepted: 28 October 2009
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200913071
    PDF file (5.54 MB)

  • Transit timing analysis of CoRoT-Exo-1b
    Sz. Csizmadia, S. Renner, P. Barge, and S. Aigrain et al.
    Accepted: 26 October 2009
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200912052
    PDF file (1.021 MB)

  • The HARPS search for southern extra-solar planets XIX. Characterization and dynamics of the GJ876 planetary system
    A.C.M. Correia, j. Couetdic, J.Laskar, X.Bonfils, M. Mayor, J-l. Bertaux, F. Bouchy, X. Delfosse, T.forveille, C.Lovis, F.Pepe, C.Perrier, D. Queloz and S. Udry
    Accepted: 06 October 2009
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200912700
    PDF file (3.198 MB)

  • The CORALIE survey for southern extrasolar planets. XVI. Discovery of a planetary system around HD 147018 and of two long period and massive planets orbiting HD 171238 and HD 204313
    D. Ségransan, S. Udry, M. Mayor, D. Naef, F. Pepe, D. Queloz, N.C. Santos, B-O. Demory, P. Figueira, M. Gillon, M. Marmier, D. Mégevand, D. Sosnowska, O. Tamuz and A. H.M.J. Triaud
    Received: 23 March 2009 / Accepted: 14 August 2009
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200912136
    PDF file (3,72 MB)

  • On the observational bias of the Trojan swarms
    O. Karlsson
    Received: 04 June 2009 / Accepted: 30 July 2009
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200912629


Celestial mechanics and astrometry

  • About the dynamics of the evection resonance
    J. Frouard, M. Fouchard and A. Vienne
    Accepted: 10 November 2009
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200913048


  • Trigonometric parallaxes of 6.7 GHz methanol masers
    K. L. J. Rygl, A. Brunthaler, M. J. Reid, K. M. Menten, H. J. van Langevelde, and Y. Xu
    Accepted: 30 September 2009
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200913135
    PDF file (692.0 KB)

Atomic, molecular, and nuclear data

  • Rotational excitation of methylidynium (CH+) by a helium atom at high temperature
    K. Hammami, L.C. Owono Owono and P. Stäuber
    Accepted: 25 January 2010
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200912663e


  • Electron-impact excitation of Ni II. Collision strengths and effective collision strengths for low-lying fine-structure forbidden transitions
    C. M. Cassidy, C. A. Ramsbottom, M. P. Scott and P. G. Burke
    Accepted: 18 January 2010
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200913571
    PDF file (426.8 KB)

  • Neutron-induced astrophysical reaction rates for translead nuclei
    I. V. Panov, I. Yu. Korneev, T. Rauscher, G. Martinez-Pinedo, A. Kelic-Heil, N. T. Zinner and F.-K. Thielemann
    Accepted: 12 January 2010
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200911967
    PDF file (2.475 MB)

  • Atomic data from the IRON project LXVIII. Electron impact excitation of Fe XI
    G. Del Zanna, P.J. Storey and H.E. Mason
    Accepted: 11 January 2010
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200913006


  • The FERRUM project: laboratory-measured transition probabilities for Cr II
    J. Gurell, H. Nilsson, L. Engström, H. Lundberg, R. Blackwell-Whitehead, K. E. Nielsen and S. Mannervik
    Accepted: 15 December 2009
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200913672
    PDF file (326.4 KB)

  • Atomic data from the iron project. LXVII. Electron impact excitation of Fe XIII
    P.J. Storey and C.J. Zeippen
    Accepted: 14 December 2009
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200912689
    PDF file (633.8 KB)

  • Recommended data on proton-ion collision rate coefficients for Fe X - Fe XXIII ions
    I. Skobelev, I. Murakami and T. Kato
    Accepted: 04 December 2009
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200912392
    PDF file (684.5 KB)

  • Electron excitation collision strengths for transitions in K II
    S. S. Tayal and O. Zatsarinny
    Accepted: 30 November 2009
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200911977
    PDF file (361.5 KB)

  • Transition probabilities of astrophysical interest in the niobium ions Nb+ and Nb2+
    H. Nilsson, H. Hartman, L. Engström, H. Lundberg, C. Sneden, V. Fivet, P. Palmeri, P. Quinet and E. Biémont
    Accepted: 20 November 2009
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200913574
    PDF file (372.6 KB)

  • Rotational excitation and de-excitation of CH+ molecules by 4He atoms
    F. Turpin, T. Stoecklin, and A. Voronin
    Accepted: 11 November 2009
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200912744
    PDF file (181.0 KB)

  • Photochemistry of the PAH pyrene in water ice: the case for ion-mediated solid-state astrochemistry
    J. Bouwman, H. M. Cuppen, A. Bakker, L. J. Allamandola, and H. Linnartz
    Accepted: 09 November 2009
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200913291
    PDF file (582.7 KB)

Astronomical instrumentation

  • Planck pre-launch status: HFI beam expectations from the optical optimisation of the focal plane
    B. Maffei, F. Noviello, J.A. Murphy, P.A.R. Ade, J-M. Lamarre, F.R. Bouchet, J. Brossard, A. Catalano, R. Colgan, R. Gispert, E. Gleeson, W.C. Jones, I. McAuley, A.E. Lange, Y. Longval, F. Pajot and T. Peacocke et al
    Accepted: 26 January 2010
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200912999
    PDF file (2,46 MB)

  • S-DIMM+ height characterization of day-time seeing using solar granulation
    G.B. Scharmer and T.I.M. van Werkhoven
    Accepted: 22 January 2010
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200913791


  • Markov chain beam randomization: a study of the impact of PLANCK beam measurement errors on cosmological parameter estimation
    G. Rocha, L. Pagano, K. M. Gorski, K. M. Huffenberger, C. R. Lawrence and A. E. Lange
    Accepted: 13 January 2010
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200913032


  • Probing high-redshift quasars with ALMA. I. Expected observables and potential number of sources
    D. R. G. Schleicher, M. Spaans and R. S. Klessen
    Accepted: 05 January 2010
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200913467
    PDF file (517.7 KB)

  • Planck pre-launch status: the optical architecture of the HFI
    The Planck collaboration, P.A.R. Ade, G.Savini, R.Sudiwala, C.Tucker, A.Catalano, S.Church, R.Colgan, F.X.Desert, E.Gleeson, W.C.Jones, J.-M.Lamarre, A.Lange, Y.Longval, B.Maffei, J.A.Murphy, F.Noviello, F.Pajot, J.-L.Puget, I.Ristorcelli, A.Woodcraft and V.Yurchenko
    Accepted: 21 December 2009
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200913039


  • An analysis of outgassing pressure forces on the Rosetta orbiter using realistic 3D+t coma simulations
    E. Mysen, A.V. Rodionov and J.-F. Crifo
    Accepted: 07 December 2009
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200912107
    PDF file (9,20 MB)

  • ASTEP South: an Antarctic Search for Transiting ExoPlanets around the celestial south pole
    N. Crouzet, T. Guillot, K. Agabi, J.P. Rivet, E. Bondoux and Z. Challita et al.
    Received: 09 November 2009 / Accepted: 02 December 2009
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200913629


  • Limitations for shapelet-based weak-lensing measurements
    P. Melchior, A. Böhnert, M. Lombardi, and M. Bartelmann
    Accepted: 12 November 2009
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200912785
    PDF file (187.4 KB)

  • Planck pre-launch status: The Planck mission
    The Planck collaboration, J. A. Tauber, N. Mandolesi, J.-L. Puget, T. Banos, M. Bersanelli, F.R. Bouchet, C.R. Butler, J. Charra, G. Crone, J. Dodsworth, G. Efstathiou, R. Gispert, G. Guyot, A. Gregorio, J.J. Juillet, J.-M. Lamarre, R. Laureijs, C.R. Lawrence and et al.
    Received: 24 July 2009 / Accepted: 12 November 2009
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200912983
    PDF file (3,10 MB)

  • Statistics of the sodium layer parameters at low geographic latitude and its impact on adaptive-optics sodium laser guide star characteristics
    N. Moussaoui, B. R. Clemesha, R. Holzloehner, D. M. Simonich, D. Bonaccini Calia, W. Hackenberg and P. P. Batista
    Accepted: 06 November 2009
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200913281
    PDF file (819.1 KB)

  • Planck pre-launch status: the Planck-LFI programme
    The Planck collaboration, N. Mandolesi, M.Bersanelli, R.C. Butler, E.Artal, C.Baccigalupi, A. Balbi, A.J. Banday, R.B. Barreiro, M.Bartelmann, K. Bennett, P.Bhandari, A.Bonaldi, J. Borrill, M.Bremer and C.Burigana
    Accepted: 27 October 2009
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200912837
    PDF file (1.567 MB)

  • First results of a cryogenic optical photon-counting imaging spectrometer with use of a DROID array
    R. A. Hijmering, P. Verhoeve, D. D.E. Martin, R. Venn, A. van Dordrecht, and P. J. Groot
    Accepted: 23 October 2009
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200913155
    PDF file (961.8 KB)

  • Planck pre-launch status: Low frequency instrument optics
    M. Sandri, F. Villa, M. Bersanelli, C. Burigana, R.C. Butler, O. D'Arcangelo, L. Figini, A. Gregorio, C.R. Lawrence, D. Maino, N. Mandolesi, M. Maris, R. Nesti, F. Perrotta, P. Platania, A. Simonetto, C. Sozzi, J. Tauber and L.Valenziano
    Accepted: 01 October 2009
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200912891
    PDF file (22.98 MB)

Catalogs and data

  • DAMIT: a database of asteroid models
    J. Durech, V. Sidorin and M. Kaasalainen
    Accepted: 20 January 2010
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200912693


  • Nainital Microlensing Survey - detection of short period Cepheids in the disk of M31
    Y. C. Joshi, D. Narasimha, A. K. Pandey and R. Sagar
    Accepted: 28 December 2009
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200913408
    PDF file (736, KB)

  • The Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey - VLT/VIMOS spectroscopy in the GOODS-south field: Part II
    I. Balestra, V. Mainieri, P. Popesso, M. Dickinson, M. Nonino, P. Rosati, H. Teimoorinia, E. Vanzella, S. Cristiani, C. Cesarsky, R.A.E. Fosbury, H. Kuntschner and and the GOODS team
    Accepted: 21 December 2009
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200913626
    PDF file (18.56 MB)

  • A general catalogue of molecular hydrogen emission-line objects (MHOs) in outflows from young stars
    C.J. Davis, R. Gell, T. Khanzadyan, M.D. Smith and T. Jenness
    Accepted: 15 December 2009
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200913561
    PDF file (1.805 MB)

  • The SPECFIND V2.0 catalogue of radio cross-identifications and spectra. SPECFIND meets the virtual observatory
    B. Vollmer, B. Gassmann, S. Derriere, T. Boch, M. Louys, F. Bonnarel, P. Dubois, F. Genova and F. Ochsenbein
    Accepted: 09 December 2009
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200913460
    PDF file (2.253 MB)

  • Photometric multi-site campaign on the open cluster NGC 884 I. Stellar variability
    S. Saesen, F. Carrier, A. Pigulski, C. Aerts, G. Handler, A. Narwid, J. N. Fu, C. Zhang, X. J. Jiang, J. Vanautgaerden and et al.
    Accepted: 09 December 2009
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200913236
    PDF file (699.7 MB)

  • The RMS survey: far-infrared photometry of young massive stars
    J. C. Mottram, M. G. Hoare, S. L. Lumsden, R. D. Oudmaijer, J. S. Urquhart, M. R. Meade, T. J. T. Moore and J. J. Stead
    Accepted: 07 December 2009
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200913319
    PDF file (1.209 MB)

  • A photometric and spectroscopic investigation of star formation in the very young open cluster NGC6383
    G. Rauw, J. Manfroid and M. De Becker
    Accepted: 26 November 2009
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200912780
    PDF file (1.185 MB)

  • More than 160 near Earth asteroids observed in the EURONEAR network
    M. Birlan, O. Vaduvescu, A. Tudorica, A. Sonka, A. Nedelcu, A. Galad, F. Colas, F. Pozo, A. Barr, R. Toma, I. Comsa, P. Rocher, V. Lainey, D. Vidican, D. Asher, C. Opriseanu, C. Vancea and J. P. Colque et al
    Received: 10 July 2009 / Accepted: 16 November 2009
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200912865
    PDF file (973, KB)

  • The Heidelberg InfraRed Optical Cluster Survey (HIROCS). I. Layout, instrumentation, and data analysis
    H.-J. Röser, H. Hippelein, Ch. Wolf, M. Zatloukal and S. Falter
    Accepted: 07 November 2009
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200912428
    PDF file (6.409 MB)

Numerical methods and codes

  • EvoL: The new Padova Tree-SPH parallel code for cosmological simulations. I. Basic code: gravity and hydrodynamics
    E. Merlin, U. Buonomo, T. Grassi, L. Piovan and C. Chiosi
    Accepted: 22 December 2009
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200913514


  • Numerical simulations of highly porous dust aggregates in the low-velocity collision regime. Implementation and calibration of a smooth particle hydrodynamics code
    R.J. Geretshauser, R. Speith, C. Güttler, M. Krause and J. Blum
    Accepted: 22 December 2009
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200913596
    PDF file (5,08 MB)

  • Radiation hydrodynamics simulations in massive star formation I. Fast and accurate frequency dependent radiation transport
    R. Kuiper, H. Klahr, C. Dullemond, W. Kley and T. Henning
    Accepted: 15 December 2009
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200912355
    PDF file (492.1 KB)