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A&A Vol. 368 No. 3

	Astronomy and Astrophysics
	Vol. 368 No. 3 (March IV 2001)
Cover illustration: Voronoi tessellation of a galaxy field (Ramella, M., et al., p.777)

Letters

Disks around hot stars in the Trifid nebula p. L13
B. Lefloch, J. Cernicharo, D. Cesarsky, K. Demyk and L. F. Rodriguez
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On the quiescence of the Hubble flow in the vicinity of the Local Group - A study using galaxies with distances from the Cepheid PL-relation p. L17
T. Ekholm, Yu. Baryshev, P. Teerikorpi, M. O. Hanski and G. Paturel
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A new deuterium abundance measurement from a damped Ly $\alpha$ system at $\vec{z}_{\mathsf{abs}} =\mathsf$ p. L21
S. D'Odorico, M. Dessauges-Zavadsky and P. Molaro
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Impact-triggered breakup of comet C/1999 S4 (LINEAR): Identification of the closest intersecting orbits of other small bodies with its orbit p. L25
I. Toth
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The peculiar B-type supergiant HD 327083 p. L29
M. A. D. Machado, F. X. de Araújo and S. Lorenz-Martins
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SiO emission from a huge, detached shell in IRC +10420 p. L34
A. Castro-Carrizo, R. Lucas, V. Bujarrabal, F. Colomer and J. Alcolea
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Structural and chemical alteration of crystalline olivine under low energy He ⁺ irradiation p. L38
K. Demyk, Ph. Carrez, H. Leroux, P. Cordier, A. P. Jones, J. Borg, E. Quirico, P. I. Raynal and L. d'Hendecourt
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Cosmology

Details of the mass-temperature relation for clusters of galaxies p. 749
A. Finoguenov, T. H. Reiprich and H. Böhringer
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Correlation of the South Pole 94 data with $\mathsf{100 \mu}$ m and 408 MHz maps p. 760
J.-Ch. Hamilton and K. M. Ganga
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Cosmic shear analysis in 50 uncorrelated VLT fields. Implications for $\Omega_0$ , $\sigma_8$ p. 766
R. Maoli, L. Van Waerbeke, Y. Mellier, P. Schneider, B. Jain, F. Bernardeau, T. Erben and B. Fort
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Extragalactic astronomy

Finding galaxy clusters using Voronoi tessellations p. 776
M. Ramella, W. Boschin, D. Fadda and M. Nonino
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The Calar Alto Deep Imaging Survey: K-band Galaxy number counts p. 787
J.-S. Huang, D. Thompson, M. W. Kümmel, K. Meisenheimer, C. Wolf, S. V. W. Beckwith, R. Fockenbrock, J. W. Fried, H. Hippelein, B. von Kuhlmann, S. Phleps, H.-J. Röser and E. Thommes
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Soft X-ray properties of a spectroscopically selected sample of interacting and isolated Seyfert galaxies p. 797
F. Pfefferkorn, Th. Boller and P. Rafanelli
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Variability and polarization in the inner jet of 3C 395 p. 817
L. Lara, A. Alberdi and J. M. Marcaide
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Global molecular gas properties of Seyfert galaxies - I. The observational data p. 824
S. J. Curran, A. G. Polatidis, S. Aalto and R. S. Booth
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Galactic structure and dynamics

A catalogue of soft X-ray sources in the galactic center region p. 835
L. Sidoli, T. Belloni and S. Mereghetti
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The Arcetri Catalog of $\mathsf$ maser sources: Update 2000 p. 845
R. Valdettaro, F. Palla, J. Brand, R. Cesaroni, G. Comoretto, S. Di Franco, M. Felli, E. Natale, F. Palagi, D. Panella and G. Tofani
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Stellar clusters and associations

Internal kinematics of the TW Hya association of young stars p. 866
V. V. Makarov and C. Fabricius
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Internal kinematics and binarity of X-ray stars in the Pleiades open cluster p. 873
V. V. Makarov and N. Robichon
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Formation, structure and evolution of stars

Stability of pulsation of the double-mode high-amplitude $\delta$ Scuti star AE Ursae Majoris p. 880
M. D. Pócs and B. Szeidl
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CHANDRA-LETGS X-ray observations of Capella - Temperature, density and abundance diagnostics p. 888
R. Mewe, A. J. J. Raassen, J. J. Drake, J. S. Kaastra, R. L. J. van der Meer and D. Porquet
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The structure of radiative shock waves - III. The model grid for partially ionized hydrogen gas p. 901
Yu. A. Fadeyev and D. Gillet
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Statistical analysis of intrinsic polarization, IR excess and projected rotational velocity distributions of classical Be stars p. 912
R. V. Yudin
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Accretion disk in the binary system V367 Cygni p. 932
S. Zola and W. Ogloza
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Population synthesis for double white dwarfs - II. Semi-detached systems: AM CVn stars p. 939
G. Nelemans, S. F. Portegies Zwart, F. Verbunt and L. R. Yungelson
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Circumstellar masers in the Magellanic Clouds p. 950
J. Th. van Loon, A. A. Zijlstra, V. Bujarrabal and L.-Å. Nyman
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Models of circumstellar molecular radio line emission - Mass loss rates for a sample of bright carbon stars p. 969
F. L. Schöier and H. Olofsson
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Physical parameters of sdB stars from spectral energy distributions p. 994
R. Aznar Cuadrado and C. S. Jeffery
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Properties of OH/IR stars with IRAS LRS spectra p. 1006
P. S. Chen, R. Szczerba, S. Kwok and K. Volk
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A catalogue of low-mass X-ray binaries p. 1021
Q. Z. Liu, J. van Paradijs and E. P. J. van den Heuvel
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Scintillation measurements of the millisecond pulsar PSR J0030+0451 and pulsar space velocities p. 1055
L. Nicastro, F. Nigro, N. D'Amico, V. Lumiella and S. Johnston
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Diffuse matter in space

Cosmic-ray positrons from mature gamma-ray pulsars p. 1063
L. Zhang and K. S. Cheng
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The sun

Wave dissipation by ion cyclotron resonance in the solar corona p. 1071
C.-Y. Tu and E. Marsch
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Solar radius determinations obtained with the CCD astrolabe at TUBITAK National Observatory p. 1077
O. Golbasi, F. Chollet, H. Kiliç, V. Sinceac, Z. Aslan and E. Sozen
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Kelvin-Helmholtz instabilities and resonant flow instabilities for a coronal plume model with plasma pressure p. 1083
J. Andries and M. Goossens
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Active region oscillations p. 1095
E. O'Shea, D. Banerjee, J. G. Doyle, B. Fleck and F. Murtagh
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The solar system

An attempt to detect Vulcanoids with SOHO/LASCO images - I. Scale relativity and quantization of the solar system p. 1108
G. Schumacher and J. Gay
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Celestial mechanics and astrometry

On the use of wavelet analysis for the fitting of a dynamical theory to observations p. 1115
A. Fienga and J. M. Delouis
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Instruments, observational techniques and data processing

A radio continuum survey of the southern sky at 1420 MHz - Observations and data reduction p. 1123
J. C. Testori, P. Reich, J. A. Bava, F. R. Colomb, E. E. Hurrel, J. J. Larrarte, W. Reich and A. J. Sanz
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Influence of scintillations on the performance of adaptive astronomical systems with Hartmann-like wavefront sensors p. 1133
V. V. Voitsekhovich, V. G. Orlov and L. J. Sanchez
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