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A&A Vol. 381 No. 3

	Astronomy and Astrophysics
	Vol. 381 No. 3 (January III 2002)
Cover illustration: Elemental abundances in Cas A measured by XMM-Newton (Willingale, R., et al., p. 1042)

Letters

Evidence for the extragalactic Cepheid distance bias from the kinematical distance scale p. L37
P. Teerikorpi and G. Paturel
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First detection of the growing humps at the rapidly rising stage of dwarf novae AL Com and WZ Sge p. L41
R. Ishioka, M. Uemura, K. Matsumoto, H. Ohashi, T. Kato, G. Masi, R. Novak, J. Pietz, B. Martin, D. Starkey, S. Kiyota, A. Oksanen, M. Moilanen, L. Cook, L. Kral, T. Hynek, M. Kolasa, T. Vanmunster, M. Richmond, J. Kern, S. Davis, D. Crabtree, K. Beaulieu, T. Davis, M. Aggleton, K. Gazeas, P. Niarchos, A. Yushchenko, F. Mallia, M. Fiaschi, G. A. Good, D. Boyd, Y. Sano, K. Morikawa, M. Moriyama, R. Mennickent, J. Arenas, T. Ohshima and T. Watanabe
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A change in the outburst recurrence time of the Rapid Burster p. L45
N. Masetti
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Highly accurate calculation of rotating neutron stars p. L49
M. Ansorg, A. Kleinwächter and R. Meinel
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Knot production in magnetized Herbig-Haro jets p. L53
M. Thiele and M. Camenzind
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Direct determination of quasar redshifts p. L57
J. H. J. de Bruijne, A. P. Reynolds, M. A. C. Perryman, A. Peacock, F. Favata, N. Rando, D. Martin, P. Verhoeve and N. Christlieb
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Supersonic propeller spindown of neutron stars in wind-fed mass-exchange close binaries p. L61
N. R. Ikhsanov
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The cosmic microwave background radiation temperature at $\vec{z}_\mathsf{abs} = \mathsf$ toward QSO 0347-3819 p. L64
P. Molaro, S. A. Levshakov, M. Dessauges-Zavadsky and S. D'Odorico
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The K20 survey - I. Disentangling old and dusty star-forming galaxies in the ERO population p. L68
A. Cimatti, E. Daddi, M. Mignoli, L. Pozzetti, A. Renzini, G. Zamorani, T. Broadhurst, A. Fontana, P. Saracco, F. Poli, S. Cristiani, S. D'Odorico, E. Giallongo, R. Gilmozzi and N. Menci
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Molecular gas at intermediate redshifts p. L73
N. Kanekar and J. N. Chengalur
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Net circular polarization of sunspot penumbrae - Symmetry breaking through anomalous dispersion p. L77
R. Schlichenmaier, D. A. N. Müller, O. Steiner and M. Stix
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Extragalactic astronomy

A new list of extra-galactic radio jets p. 757
F. K. Liu and Y. H. Zhang
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Environmental effects in galaxies - The data p. 761
D. F. de Mello, M. A. G. Maia and T. Wiklind
Abstract | References | Full HTML | PDF file (243 KB) | PS file (164 KB) | Online Material

Environmental effects in galaxies - Molecular gas, star formation, and activity p. 771
D. F. de Mello, T. Wiklind and M. A. G. Maia
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CN and HNC line emission in IR luminous galaxies p. 783
S. Aalto, A. G. Polatidis, S. Hüttemeister and S. J. Curran
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Chandra discovery of extended non-thermal emission in 3C 207 and the spectrum of the relativistic electrons p. 795
G. Brunetti, M. Bondi, A. Comastri and G. Setti
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Deep optical imaging of radio selected BL Lacertae objects p. 810
T. Pursimo, K. Nilsson, L. O. Takalo, A. Sillanpää, J. Heidt and H. Pietilä
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A search for radio supernovae and supernova remnants in the region of NGC 1569's super star clusters p. 825
A. Greve, A. Tarchi, S. Hüttemeister, R. de Grijs, J. M. van der Hulst, S. T. Garrington and N. Neininger
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Disclosing the true nature of the Sy 2 galaxy NGC 3281: One more Compton-thick source p. 834
C. Vignali and A. Comastri
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XMM-Newton observation of a distant X-ray selected cluster of galaxies at $\vec{z}=\mathsf$ with possible cluster interaction p. 841
Yasuhiro Hashimoto, Günther Hasinger, Monique Arnaud, Piero Rosati and Takamitsu Miyaji
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Galactic structure and dynamics

Microlensing search towards M 31 p. 848
S. Calchi Novati, G. Iovane, A. A. Marino, M. Aurière, P. Baillon, A. Bouquet, V. Bozza, M. Capaccioli, S. Capozziello, V. Cardone, G. Covone, F. De Paolis, R. de Ritis, Y. Giraud-Héraud, A. Gould, G. Ingrosso, Ph. Jetzer, J. Kaplan, G. Lambiase, Y. Le Du, L. Mancini, E. Piedipalumbo, V. Re, M. Roncadelli, C. Rubano, G. Scarpetta, P. Scudellaro, M. Sereno and F. Strafella
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Stellar clusters and associations

Three stellar associations and their field east of LMC 4 in the Large Magellanic Cloud p. 862
D. Gouliermis, S. C. Keller, K. S. de Boer, M. Kontizas and E. Kontizas
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NGC 2571: An intermediate-age open cluster with a White Dwarf candidate p. 884
E. E. Giorgi, R. A. Vàzquez, G. Baume, W. Seggewiss and J.-M. Will
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Formation, structure and evolution of stars

RX J1643.7+3402: A new bright cataclysmic variable p. 894
A. M. Mickaelian, S. K. Balayan, S. A. Ilovaisky, C. Chevalier, M.-P. Véron-Cetty and P. Véron
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Bispectrum speckle interferometry of the massive protostellar object S140 IRS 1: Evidence for multiple outflows p. 905
G. Weigelt, Y. Y. Balega, T. Preibisch, D. Schertl and M. D. Smith
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First orbital elements for the $\lambda$ Bootis spectroscopic binary systems HD 84948 and HD 171948 - Implications for the origin of the $\lambda$ Bootis stars p. 914
I. Kh. Iliev, E. Paunzen, I. S. Barzova, R. F. Griffin, I. Kamp, A. Claret and C. Koen
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Dynamo action by differential rotation in a stably stratified stellar interior p. 923
H. C. Spruit
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Recycling strange stars to millisecond periods p. 933
J. L. Zdunik, P. Haensel and E. Gourgoulhon
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Resolving the compact $\ion{H}{ii}$ regions in N160A with $\vec$ p. 941
M. Heydari-Malayeri, V. Charmandaris, L. Deharveng, F. Meynadier, M. R. Rosa, D. Schaerer and H. Zinnecker
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STIS spectroscopy of newborn massive stars in SMC N81 p. 951
M. Heydari-Malayeri, M. R. Rosa, D. Schaerer, F. Martins and V. Charmandaris
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The abundance pattern of $\lambda$ Bootis stars p. 959
U. Heiter
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The accretion/diffusion theory for $\lambda$ Bootis stars in the light of spectroscopic data p. 971
U. Heiter, W. W. Weiss and E. Paunzen
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The C and N abundances in disk stars p. 982
J. R. Shi, G. Zhao and Y. Q. Chen
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Pulsar "drifting"-subpulse polarization: No evidence for systematic polarization-angle rotations p. 993
R. Ramachandran, J. M. Rankin, B. W. Stappers, M. L. A. Kouwenhoven and A. G. J. van Leeuwen
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The period distribution of old accreting isolated neutron stars p. 1000
M. E. Prokhorov, S. B. Popov and A. V. Khoperskov
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Stellar atmospheres

Spectral analysis of the sdO K 648, the exciting star of the planetary nebula Ps 1 in the globular cluster M 15 (NGC 7078) p. 1007
T. Rauch, U. Heber and K. Werner
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The outer evolution of instability-generated structure in radiatively driven stellar winds p. 1015
M. C. Runacres and S. P. Owocki
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Diffuse matter in space

A survey of [HDCO]/[ H $_\mathsf{2}$ CO] and [DCN]/[HCN] ratios towards low-mass protostellar cores p. 1026
H. Roberts, G. A. Fuller, T. J. Millar, J. Hatchell and J. V. Buckle
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X-ray spectral imaging and Doppler mapping of Cassiopeia A p. 1039
R. Willingale, J. A. M. Bleeker, K. J. van der Heyden, J. S. Kaastra and J. Vink
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The sun

Solar cycle variation of the temperature structure within the cores of coronal streamers p. 1049
C. R. Foley, S. Patsourakos, J. L. Culhane and D. MacKay
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The solar system

Hyperion-Iapetus: Collisional relationships p. 1059
S. Marchi, C. Barbieri, A. Dell'Oro and P. Paolicchi
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Physical and chemical processes

Stationary equatorial MHD flows in general relativity p. 1066
F. Daigne and G. Drenkhahn
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Bulk viscosity in superfluid neutron star cores - III. Effects of $\mathsf{\Sigma^-}$ hyperons p. 1080
P. Haensel, K. P. Levenfish and D. G. Yakovlev
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Atomic and molecular data

Experimental oscillator strengths in U II of cosmological interest p. 1090
H. Nilsson, S. Ivarsson, S. Johansson and H. Lundberg
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Erratum
On the frequency of the CS (J: 2 $\rightarrow$ 1) and (J: 5 $\rightarrow$ 4) transitions p. 1094
L. Pagani, A. T. Gallego and A. J. Apponi
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Instruments, observational techniques and data processing

Image reduction pipeline for the detection of variable sources in highly crowded fields p. 1095
C. A. Gössl and A. Riffeser
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ISOPHOT - Photometric calibration of point sources p. 1110
B. Schulz, S. Huth, R. J. Laureijs, J. A. Acosta-Pulido, M. Braun, H. O. Castañeda, M. Cohen, L. Cornwall, C. Gabriel, P. Hammersley, I. Heinrichsen, U. Klaas, D. Lemke, T. Müller, D. Osip, P. Román-Fernández and C. Telesco
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