Astronomy and Astrophysics
	Vol. 456 No. 3 (September IV 2006)
Cover illustration: Image modeling of the huge disk around SO-1 (J. Steinacker, et al., p. 1017)

Letters


• Metallicity as a criterion to select H -bearing damped Lyman- systems     p. L9
  P. Petitjean, C. Ledoux, P. Noterdaeme and R. Srianand
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• Spectral line width decrease in the solar corona: resonant energy conversion from Alfvén to acoustic waves     p. L13
  T. V. Zaqarashvili, R. Oliver and J. L. Ballester
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Astrophysical processes
• Gamma-ray binaries: pulsars in disguise?     p. 801
  G. Dubus
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Cosmology (including clusters of galaxies)
• Small scale contributions to the cosmic microwave background: a coherent analysis     p. 819
  M. Douspis, N. Aghanim and M. Langer
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• Shears from shapelets     p. 827
  K. Kuijken
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Extragalactic astronomy
• Physical properties of Hickson compact groups and of the loose groups within which they are embedded     p. 839
  H. Tovmassian, M. Plionis and J. P. Torres-Papaqui
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• Thermal and non-thermal components of the interstellar medium at sub-kiloparsec scales in galaxies     p. 847
  R. Paladino, M. Murgia, T. T. Helfer, T. Wong, R. Ekers, L. Blitz, L. Gregorini and L. Moscadelli
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• Constraining the population of star-forming galaxies with deep near-IR images of lensing clusters     p. 861
  J. Richard, R. Pelló, D. Schaerer, J.-F. Le Borgne and J.-P. Kneib
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• ESO imaging survey: infrared deep public survey     p. 881
  L. F. Olsen, J.-M. Miralles, L. da Costa, R. Madejsky, H. E. Jørgensen, A. Mignano, S. Arnouts, C. Benoist, J. P. Dietrich, R. Slijkhuis and S. Zaggia
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• Synchrotron flaring in the jet of 3C 279     p. 895
  E. J. Lindfors, M. Türler, E. Valtaoja, H. Aller, M. Aller, D. Mazin, C. M. Raiteri, J. A. Stevens, M. Tornikoski, G. Tosti and M. Villata
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• Carbon stars in the outer spheroid of NGC 6822     p. 905
  S. Demers, P. Battinelli and E. Artigau
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• Swift and infra-red observations of the blazar 3C 454.3 during the giant X-ray flare of May 2005     p. 911
  P. Giommi, A. J. Blustin, M. Capalbi, S. Colafrancesco, A. Cucchiara , L. Fuhrmann, H. A. Krimm, N. Marchili, E. Massaro, M. Perri, G. Tagliaferri, G. Tosti, A. Tramacere, D. N. Burrows, G. Chincarini, A. Falcone, N. Gehrels, J. Kennea and R. Sambruna
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• Panchromatic study of GRB 060124: from precursor to afterglow     p. 917
  P. Romano, S. Campana, G. Chincarini, J. Cummings, G. Cusumano, S. T. Holland, V. Mangano, T. Mineo, K. L. Page, V. Pal'shin, E. Rol, T. Sakamoto, B. Zhang, R. Aptekar, S. Barbier, S. Barthelmy, A. P. Beardmore, P. Boyd, D. N. Burrows, M. Capalbi, E. E. Fenimore, D. Frederiks, N. Gehrels, P. Giommi, M. R. Goad, O. Godet, S. Golenetskii, D. Guetta, J. A. Kennea, V. La Parola, D. Malesani, F. Marshall, A. Moretti, J. A. Nousek, P. T. O'Brien, J. P. Osborne, M. Perri and G. Tagliaferri
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• VLT/ISAAC spectra of the H region in intermediate-redshift quasars - II. Black hole mass and Eddington ratio     p. 929
  J. W. Sulentic, P. Repetto, G. M. Stirpe, P. Marziani, D. Dultzin-Hacyan and M. Calvani
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• Modelling the spectral energy distribution of galaxies - IV. Correcting apparent disk scalelengths and central surface brightnesses for the effect of dust at optical and near-infrared wavelengths     p. 941
  C. Möllenhoff, C. C. Popescu and R. J. Tuffs
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• Size and properties of the narrow-line region in Seyfert-2 galaxies from spatially-resolved optical spectroscopy     p. 953
  N. Bennert, B. Jungwiert, S. Komossa, M. Haas and R. Chini
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• AGB stars in the Magellanic Clouds - II. The rate of star formation across the LMC     p. 967
  M.-R. L. Cioni, L. Girardi, P. Marigo and H. J. Habing
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Galactic structure, stellar clusters, and populations
• The Galactic thick and thin disks: differences in evolution     p. 969
  T. V. Nykytyuk and T. V. Mishenina
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• X-ray variability of  NGC 2516 stars in the XMM-Newton observations     p. 977
  A. Marino, G. Micela, I. Pillitteri and G. Peres
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• An updated survey of globular clusters in M 31 - I. Classification and radial velocity for 76 candidate clusters     p. 985
  S. Galleti, L. Federici, M. Bellazzini, A. Buzzoni and F. Fusi Pecci
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Interstellar and circumstellar matter
• A chemical study of the inner winds of asymptotic giant branch stars     p. 1001
  I. Cherchneff
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• Modeling the NIR-silhouette massive disk candidate in M 17     p. 1013
  J. Steinacker, R. Chini, M. Nielbock, D. Nürnberger, V. Hoffmeister, J.-M. Huré and D. Semenov
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• The remarkable light and colour variability of Small Magellanic Cloud Be stars     p. 1027
  W. J. de Wit, H. J. G. L. M. Lamers, J. B. Marquette and J. P. Beaulieu
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• HCN and HNC mapping of the protostellar core Chamaeleon-MMS1     p. 1037
  P. P. Tennekes, J. Harju, M. Juvela and L. V. Tóth
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Stellar structure and evolution
• Modeling of PMS Ae/Fe stars using UV spectra     p. 1045
  P. F. C. Blondel and H. R. E. Tjin A Djie
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• The new pre-cataclysmic binary PG 2200+085     p. 1069
  V. Shimansky, N. A. Sakhibullin, I. Bikmaev, H. Ritter, V. Suleimanov, N. Borisov and A. Galeev
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• Apsidal motion in eccentric eclipsing binaries: CW Cephei, V478 Cygni, AG Persei, and IQ Persei     p. 1077
  M. Wolf , H. Kucáková, M. Kolasa, P. Stastný, Z. Bozkurt, P. Harmanec, M. Zejda, L. Brát and K. Hornoch
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• Global fitting of globular cluster age indicators     p. 1085
  F. Meissner and A. Weiss
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• One-armed oscillations in Be star discs     p. 1097
  J. C. B. Papaloizou and G. J. Savonije
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• First broad band study of the mysterious source 1E 1743.1-2843     p. 1105
  M. Del Santo, L. Sidoli, A. Bazzano, M. Cocchi, G. De Cesare, A. Paizis and P. Ubertini
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Stellar atmospheres
• Elemental abundances in the atmosphere of clump giants     p. 1109
  T. V. Mishenina, O. Bienaymé, T. I. Gorbaneva, C. Charbonnel, C. Soubiran, S. A. Korotin and V. V. Kovtyukh
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• Early-type stars in the young open cluster IC 1805 - II. The probably single stars HD 15570 and HD 15629, and the massive binary/triple system HD 15558     p. 1121
  M. De Becker, G. Rauw, J. Manfroid and P. Eenens
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• The VLT-FLAMES survey of massive stars: mass loss and rotation of early-type stars in the SMC     p. 1131
  M. R. Mokiem, A. de Koter, C. J. Evans, J. Puls, S. J. Smartt, P. A. Crowther, A. Herrero, N. Langer, D. J. Lennon, F. Najarro, M. R. Villamariz and S.-C. Yoon
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The Sun
• On the CME velocity distribution     p. 1153
  A. Q. Chen, P. F. Chen and C. Fang
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• On the validity of the 630 nm Fe I lines for magnetometry of the internetwork quiet Sun     p. 1159
  M. J. Martínez González, M. Collados and B. Ruiz Cobo
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Planets and planetary systems
• Probing long-period companions to planetary hosts - VLT and CFHT near infrared coronographic imaging surveys     p. 1165
  G. Chauvin, A.-M. Lagrange, S. Udry, T. Fusco, F. Galland, D. Naef, J.-L. Beuzit and M. Mayor
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Celestial mechanics and astrometry
• Predictions of the mutual events of the Uranian satellites occurring in 2006-2009     p. 1173
  J.-E. Arlot, V. Lainey and W. Thuillot
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Atomic, molecular, and nuclear data
• New and improved experimental oscillator strengths in Zr II and the solar abundance of zirconium     p. 1181
  G. Ljung, H. Nilsson, M. Asplund and S. Johansson
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