Astronomy & Astrophysics

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A&A Vol. 460 No. 1

	Astronomy and Astrophysics
	Vol. 460 No. 1 (December II 2006)
Cover illustration: Time-dependent hydrogen ionisation in the solar atmosphere (J. Leenaarts, et al., p. 305)

Astrophysical processes

Two-component magnetohydrodynamical outflows around young stellar objects - Interplay between stellar magnetospheric winds and disc-driven jets p. 1
Z. Meliani, F. Casse, and C. Sauty
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Near-infrared polarimetry setting constraints on the orbiting spot model for Sgr A* flares p. 15
L. Meyer, A. Eckart, R. Schödel, W. J. Duschl, K. Muzic, M. Dovciak, and V. Karas
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Turbulence transmission in parallel relativistic shocks using ray tracing p. 23
J. Tammi and R. Vainio
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Cosmology (including clusters of galaxies)

Structure formation and CMBR anisotropy spectrum in the inflessence model p. 29
A. A. Sen, V. F. Cardone, S. Capozziello, and A. Troisi
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Large-scale structure and the Cardassian fluid p. 37
S. Fay and M. Amarzguioui
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Extragalactic astronomy

X-ray nature of the LINER nuclear sources p. 45
O. González-Martín, J. Masegosa, I. Márquez, M. A. Guerrero, and D. Dultzin-Hacyan
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Warm-hot intergalactic medium contribution to baryonic matter p. 59
A. M. Soltan
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Time evolution of the radio continuum of young starbursts: the importance of synchrotron emission p. 67
H. Hirashita and L. K. Hunt
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Galactic structure, stellar clusters, and populations

Faint open clusters with 2MASS: BH 63, Lyngå 2, Lyngå 12 and King 20 p. 83
E. Bica, C. Bonatto, and R. Blumberg
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Interstellar and circumstellar matter

A general model for the identification of specific PAHs in the far-IR p. 93
G. Mulas, G. Malloci, C. Joblin, and D. Toublanc
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Forming a constant density medium close to long gamma-ray bursts p. 105
A. J. van Marle, N. Langer, A. Achterberg, and G. Garcaía-Segura
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Mid-infrared imaging of the circumstellar dust around three Herbig Ae stars: HD 135344, CQ Tau, and HD 163296 p. 117
C. Doucet, E. Pantin, P. O. Lagage, and C. P. Dullemond
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Diagnostics of SS433 with the RXTE p. 125
E. Filippova, M. Revnivtsev, S. Fabrika, K. Postnov, and E. Seifina
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Stellar structure and evolution

The young star cluster NGC 2362: low-mass population and initial mass function from a Chandra X-ray observation p. 133
F. Damiani, G. Micela, S. Sciortino, N. Huélamo, A. Moitinho, F. R. Harnden Jr., and S. S. Murray
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Multicomponent radiatively driven stellar winds - IV. On the helium decoupling in the wind of $\mathsf{\sigma}$ Orionis E p. 145
J. Krticka, J. Kubát, and D. Groote
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Synthetic properties of bright metal-poor variables - I. "Anomalous" Cepheids p. 155
G. Fiorentino, M. Limongi, F. Caputo, and M. Marconi
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Equidistant frequency triplets in pulsating stars: the combination mode hypothesis p. 167
M. Breger and K. Kolenberg
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A closure model with plumes - I. The solar convection p. 173
K. Belkacem, R. Samadi, M. J. Goupil, and F. Kupka
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A closure model with plumes - II. Application to the stochastic excitation of solar p modes p. 183
K. Belkacem, R. Samadi, M. J. Goupil, F. Kupka, and F. Baudin
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Line formation regions of the UV spectrum of CI Cygni p. 191
J. Mikolajewska, M. Friedjung, and C. Quiroga
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Single star progenitors of long gamma-ray bursts - I. Model grids and redshift dependent GRB rate p. 199
S.-C. Yoon, N. Langer, and C. Norman
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Modelling the formation of double white dwarfs p. 209
M. V. van der Sluys, F. Verbunt, and O. R. Pols
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The ultra-compact binary 4U 1850-087 observed with INTEGRAL: hard X-ray emission from an X-ray burster p. 229
L. Sidoli, A. Paizis, A. Bazzano, and S. Mereghetti
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An explanation of the Z-track sources p. 233
M. J. Church, G. S. Halai, and M. Balucinska-Church
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The properties of V838 Monocerotis in 2002 November p. 245
Ya. V. Pavlenko, J. Th. van Loon, A. Evans, M. T. Rushton, B. M. Kaminsky, A. V. Filippenko, R. J. Foley, W. Li, B. Smalley, and L. A. Yakovina
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On the age of stars harboring transiting planets p. 251
C. Melo, N. C. Santos, F. Pont, T. Guillot, G. Israelian, M. Mayor, D. Queloz, and S. Udry
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A search for evidence of irradiation in Centaurus X-4 during quiescence p. 257
P. D'Avanzo, T. Muñoz-Darias, J. Casares, I. G. Martínez-Pais, and S. Campana
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Stellar atmospheres

Coronal activity cycles in 61 Cygni p. 261
A. Hempelmann, J. Robrade, J. H. M. M. Schmitt, F. Favata, S. L. Baliunas, and J. C. Hall
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VLT-UVES abundance analysis of four giants in NGC 6553 p. 269
A. Alves-Brito, B. Barbuy, M. Zoccali, D. Minniti, S. Ortolani, V. Hill, A. Renzini, L. Pasquini, E. Bica, R. M. Rich, J. Meléndez, and Y. Momany
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OGLE 2004-BLG-254: a K3 III Galactic bulge giant spatially resolved by a single microlens p. 277
A. Cassan, J.-P. Beaulieu, P. Fouqué, S. Brillant, M. Dominik, J. Greenhill, D. Heyrovský, K. Horne, U. G. Jørgensen, D. Kubas, H. C. Stempels, C. Vinter, M. D. Albrow, D. Bennett, J. A. R. Caldwell, J. J. Calitz, K. Cook, C. Coutures, D. Dominis, J. Donatowicz, K. Hill, M. Hoffman, S. Kane, J.-B. Marquette, R. Martin, P. Meintjes, J. Menzies, V. R. Miller, K. R. Pollard, K. C. Sahu, J. Wambsganss, A. Williams, A. Udalski, M. K. Szymanski, M. Kubiak, G. Pietrzynski, I. Soszynski, K. Zebrun, O. Szewczyk, and L. Wyrzykowski
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The Sun

Charge-transfer induced EUV and soft X-ray emissions in the heliosphere p. 289
D. Koutroumpa, R. Lallement, V. Kharchenko, A. Dalgarno, R. Pepino, V. Izmodenov, and E. Quémerais
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Time-dependent hydrogen ionisation in 3D simulations of the solar chromosphere - Methods and first results p. 301
J. Leenaarts and S. Wedemeyer-Böhm
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Dynamic fibrils in H $\alpha$ and C IV p. 309
A. G. de Wijn and B. De Pontieu
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Planets and planetary systems

A magnetic communication scenario for hot Jupiters p. 317
S. Preusse, A. Kopp, J. Büchner, and U. Motschmann
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Atomic, molecular, and nuclear data

Influence of a new potential energy surface on the rotational (de)excitation of H $_{\mathsf 2}$ O by H $_{\mathsf 2}$ at low temperature p. 323
M.-L. Dubernet, F. Daniel, A. Grosjean, A. Faure, P. Valiron, M. Wernli, L. Wiesenfeld, C. Rist, J. Noga, and J. Tennyson
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Energy levels and radiative rates for transitions in Fe IX p. 331
K. M. Aggarwal, F. P. Keenan, T. Kato, and I. Murakami
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Instruments, observational techniques, and data processing

Empirical color transformations between SDSS photometry and other photometric systems p. 339
K. Jordi, E. K. Grebel, and K. Ammon
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Deconvolution of multiple images with high dynamic range and an application to LBT LINC-NIRVANA p. 349
B. Anconelli, M. Bertero, P. Boccacci, G. Desiderà, M. Carbillet, and H. Lanteri
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