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	Astronomy and Astrophysics
	Vol. 410 No. 2 (November I 2003)
Cover illustration: Top: Horsehead nebula in the visible (ESO/VLT). Bottom ISOCAM map (Abergel, A., et al., p. 579)

Letters
• Hadronic gamma-ray emission from windy microquasars     p. L1
  G. E. Romero, D. F. Torres, M. M. Kaufman Bernadó and I. F. Mirabel
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• Faint hard X-ray sources in the Galactic Center region: Supernova ejecta fragments population     p. L5
  A. M. Bykov
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• The phase of the radio and X-ray pulses of PSR B1937+21     p. L9
  G. Cusumano, W. Hermsen, M. Kramer, L. Kuiper, O. Löhmer, E. Massaro, T. Mineo, L. Nicastro and B. W. Stappers
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• A study of the stable regions in the planetary system HD 74156 - Can it host earthlike planets in habitable zones?     p. L13
  R. Dvorak, E. Pilat-Lohinger, B. Funk and F. Freistetter
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• On dissipative effects in solar prominences     p. L17
  I. Ballai
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• The first detection of Far-Infrared emission associated with an extended HI disk. The case of NGC 891     p. L21
  C. C. Popescu and R. J. Tuffs
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• The UV luminosity function of nearby clusters of galaxies     p. L25
  L. Cortese, G. Gavazzi, A. Boselli, J. Iglesias-Paramo, J. Donas and B. Milliard
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Astrophysical processes
• Nonthermal radiation from jets of active galactic nuclei: Electrostatic bremsstrahlung as alternative to synchrotron radiation     p. 397
  R. Schlickeiser
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• Linear damping and energy dissipation of shear Alfvén waves in the interstellar medium     p. 415
  M. Lazar, F. Spanier and R. Schlickeiser
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Cosmology (including clusters of galaxies)
• Clusters and superclusters in the Las Campanas redshift survey     p. 425
  J. Einasto, M. Einasto, G. Hütsi, E. Saar, D. L. Tucker, E. Tago, V. Müller, P. Heinämäki and S. S. Allam
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• Distance to the Centaurus cluster and its subcomponents from surface brightness fluctuations     p. 445
  S. Mieske and M. Hilker
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• Galaxies in group and field environments: A comparison of optical-NIR luminosities and colors     p. 461
  M. Girardi, F. Mardirossian, C. Marinoni, M. Mezzetti and E. Rigoni
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Extragalactic astronomy
• The complex FeK line of the Narrow-Line Seyfert 1 galaxy IRAS 13349+2438     p. 471
  A. L. Longinotti, M. Cappi, K. Nandra, M. Dadina and S. Pellegrini
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• New insights to the photometric structure of Blue Compact Dwarf galaxies from deep Near-Infrared studies - I. Observations, surface photometry and decomposition of surface brightness profiles     p. 481
  K. G. Noeske, P. Papaderos, L. M. Cairós and K. J. Fricke
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Galactic structure, stellar clusters and populations
• Analysing the database for stars in open clusters - I. General methods and description of the data     p. 511
  J.-C. Mermilliod and E. Paunzen
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• Radio variability of Sagittarius A ^* due to an orbiting star     p. 519
  Heon-Young Chang and Chul-Sung Choi
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• The Carina Spiral Feature: Strömgren-H photometry approach - I. The photometric data-base     p. 523
  N. T. Kaltcheva
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• Elemental abundance trends in the Galactic thin and thick disks as traced by nearby F and G dwarf stars     p. 527
  T. Bensby, S. Feltzing and I. Lundström
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• The Red Giant Branch luminosity function bump     p. 553
  M. Riello, S. Cassisi, G. Piotto, A. Recio-Blanco, F. De Angeli, M. Salaris, A. Pietrinferni, G. Bono and M. Zoccali
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• Searching for unknown open clusters in the Tycho-2 catalog     p. 565
  B. S. Alessi, A. Moitinho and W. S. Dias
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Interstellar and circumstellar matter
• ISOCAM and molecular observations of the edge of the Horsehead nebula     p. 577
  A. Abergel, D. Teyssier, J. P. Bernard, F. Boulanger, A. Coulais, D. Fosse, E. Falgarone, M. Gerin, M. Perault, J.-L. Puget, L. Nordh, G. Olofsson, M. Huldtgren, A. A. Kaas, P. André, S. Bontemps, M. M. Casali, C. J. Cesarsky, E. Copet, J. Davies, T. Montmerle, P. Persi and F. Sibille
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• Theoretical H CO emission from protostellar envelopes     p. 587
  C. Ceccarelli, S. Maret, A. G. G. M. Tielens, A. Castets and E. Caux
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• Observations of warm dust near methanol masers     p. 597
  A. J. Walsh, G. H. Macdonald, N. D. S. Alvey, M. G. Burton and J.-K. Lee
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• Rosseland and Planck mean opacities for protoplanetary discs     p. 611
  D. Semenov, Th. Henning, Ch. Helling, M. Ilgner and E. Sedlmayr
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• Testing the "strong" PAHs hypothesis - I. Profile invariance of electronic transitions of interstellar PAH cations     p. 623
  G. Malloci, G. Mulas and P. Benvenuti
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• Testing the "strong" PAHs hypothesis - II. A quantitative link between DIBs and far-IR emission features     p. 639
  G. Mulas, G. Malloci and P. Benvenuti
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Stellar structure and evolution
• 2MASS J0516288+260738: Discovery of the first eclipsing late K + Brown dwarf binary system?     p. 649
  S. L. Schuh, G. Handler, H. Drechsel, P. Hauschildt, S. Dreizler, R. Medupe, C. Karl, R. Napiwotzki, S.-L. Kim, B.-G. Park, M. A. Wood, M. Paparó, B. Szeidl, G. Virághalmy, D. Zsuffa, O. Hashimoto, K. Kinugasa, H. Taguchi, E. Kambe, E. Leibowitz, P. Ibbetson, Y. Lipkin, T. Nagel, E. Göhler and M. L. Pretorius
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• Binaries discovered by the SPY project - III. HE 2209-1444: A massive, short period double degenerate     p. 663
  C. A. Karl, R. Napiwotzki, G. Nelemans, N. Christlieb, D. Koester, U. Heber and D. Reimers
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Stellar atmospheres
• Dependence of coronal X-ray emission on spot-induced brightness variations in cool main sequence stars     p. 671
  S. Messina, N. Pizzolato, E. F. Guinan and M. Rodonò
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Research Note:

• Differential rotation on UZ Librae     p. 685
  K. Oláh, J. Jurcsik and K. G. Strassmeier
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The Sun
• Solar cycle activity: A preliminary prediction for cycle #24     p. 691
  S. Sello
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• Three dimensional structure of a regular sunspot from the inversion of IR Stokes profiles     p. 695
  S. K. Mathew, A. Lagg, S. K. Solanki, M. Collados, J. M. Borrero, S. Berdyugina, N. Krupp, J. Woch and C. Frutiger
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Planets and planetary systems
• Enhanced collisional growth of a protoplanet that has an atmosphere     p. 711
  S. Inaba and M. Ikoma
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• The MATROS project: Stability of Uranus and Neptune Trojans. The case of 2001 QR322     p. 725
  F. Marzari, P. Tricarico and H. Scholl
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Atomic, molecular and nuclear data
• Stark broadening of neutral germanium spectral lines     p. 735
  M. S. Dimitrijevic, P. Jovanovic and Z. Simic
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Instruments, observational techniques, and data processing
Research Note:

• Binary black holes in Mkns as sources of gravitational radiation for space based interferometers     p. 741
  F. De Paolis, G. Ingrosso, A. A. Nucita and A. F. Zakharov
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