Astronomy & Astrophysics

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A&A Vol. 479 No. 1

	Astronomy and Astrophysics
	Vol. 479 No. 1 (February III 2008)
Cover illustration: Power spectrum of the solar Ca II H line (C. Beck, et al., p. 218)

Letters

Invisible sunspots and rate of solar magnetic flux emergence p. L1
S. Dalla, L. Fletcher, and N. A. Walton
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Variable VHE gamma-ray emission from non-blazar AGNs p. L5
F. M. Rieger and F. A. Aharonian
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A new imprint of fast rotators: low $\mathsf}$ C/ $\mathsf}$ C ratios in extremely metal-poor halo stars p. L9
C. Chiappini, S. Ekström, G. Meynet, R. Hirschi, A. Maeder, and C. Charbonnel
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Surface composition and temperature of the TNO Orcus p. L13
M. A. Barucci, F. Merlin, A. Guilbert, C. de Bergh, A. Alvarez-Candal, O. Hainaut, A. Doressoundiram, C. Dumas, T. Owen, and A. Coradini
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Solar supergranulation revealed by granule tracking p. L17
M. Rieutord, N. Meunier, T. Roudier, S. Rondi, F. Beigbeder, and L. Parès
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J, H, K spectro-interferometry of the Mira variable S Orionis p. L21
M. Wittkowski, D. A. Boboltz, T. Driebe, J.-B. Le Bouquin, F. Millour, K. Ohnaka, and M. Scholz
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Cosmology (including clusters of galaxies)

The optical morphology of A3667 re-examined p. 1
M. Johnston-Hollitt, R. W. Hunstead, and E. Corbett
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Very weak lensing in the CFHTLS wide: cosmology from cosmic shear in the linear regime p. 9
L. Fu, E. Semboloni, H. Hoekstra, M. Kilbinger, L. van Waerbeke, I. Tereno, Y. Mellier, C. Heymans, J. Coupon, K. Benabed, J. Benjamin, E. Bertin, O. Doré, M. J. Hudson, O. Ilbert, R. Maoli, C. Marmo, H. J. McCracken, and B. Ménard
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INTEGRAL discovery of non-thermal hard X-ray emission from the Ophiuchus cluster p. 27
D. Eckert, N. Produit, S. Paltani, A. Neronov, and T. J.-L. Courvoisier
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Extragalactic astronomy

The 26 year-long X-ray light curve and the X-ray spectrum of the BL Lacertae object 1E 1207.9+3945 in its brightest state p. 35
A. Maselli, P. Giommi, M. Perri, R. Nesci, A. Tramacere, F. Massaro, and M. Capalbi
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BL Lacertae contribution to the extragalactic gamma-ray background p. 41
T. M. Kneiske and K. Mannheim
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Supernova rates from the Southern inTermediate Redshift ESO Supernova Search (STRESS) p. 49
M. T. Botticella, M. Riello, E. Cappellaro, S. Benetti, G. Altavilla, A. Pastorello, M. Turatto, L. Greggio, F. Patat, S. Valenti, L. Zampieri, A. Harutyunyan, G. Pignata, and S. Taubenberger
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Integral-field spectroscopy of a Lyman-break galaxy at z = 3.2: evidence for merging p. 67
N. P. H. Nesvadba, M. D. Lehnert, R. I. Davies, A. Verma, and F. Eisenhauer
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$^\mathsf}$ CO 4-3 and [CI] 1-0 at the centers of NGC 4945 and Circinus p. 75
M. Hitschfeld, M. Aravena, C. Kramer, F. Bertoldi, J. Stutzki, F. Bensch, L. Bronfman, M. Cubick, M. Fujishita, Y. Fukui, U. U. Graf, N. Honingh, S. Ito, H. Jakob, K. Jacobs, U. Klein, B.-C. Koo, J. May, M. Miller, Y. Miyamoto, N. Mizuno, T. Onishi, Y.-S. Park, J. L. Pineda, D. Rabanus, M. Röllig, H. Sasago, R. Schieder, R. Simon, K. Sun, N. Volgenau, H. Yamamoto, and Y. Yonekura
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Estimating the total infrared luminosity of galaxies up to z $\mathsf{\sim 2}$ from mid- and far-infrared observations p. 83
N. Bavouzet, H. Dole, E. Le Floc'h, K. I. Caputi, G. Lagache, and C. S. Kochanek
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Propagation of high-energy cosmic rays in extragalactic turbulent magnetic fields: resulting energy spectrum and composition p. 97
N. Globus, D. Allard, and E. Parizot
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New H $_{\mathsf 2}$ O masers in Seyfert and FIR bright galaxies II. The intermediate luminosity range p. 111
P. Castangia, A. Tarchi, C. Henkel, and K. M. Menten
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Active galactic nuclei and massive galaxy cores p. 123
S. Peirani, S. Kay, and J. Silk
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Galactic structure, stellar clusters, and populations

Metallicity distribution of red giants in the Inner Galaxy from near infrared spectra p. 131
C. González-Fernández, A. Cabrera-Lavers, P. L. Hammersley, and F. Garzón
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Detection of the lithium depletion boundary in the young open cluster IC 4665 p. 141
S. Manzi, S. Randich, W. J. de Wit, and F. Palla
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Interstellar and circumstellar matter

Relation between CH cation and neutral/molecular hydrogen p. 149
T. Weselak, G. Galazutdinov, F. Musaev, and J. Krelowski
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Galactic planetary nebulae and their central stars - II. Proper motions p. 155
F. Kerber, R. P. Mignani, R. L. Smart, and A. Wicenec
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Stellar structure and evolution

Luminosity, selfgravitation and nonuniqueness of stationary accretion p. 161
J. Karkowski, E. Malec, and K. Roszkowski
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Magnetic field amplification in proto-neutron stars - The role of the neutron-finger instability for dynamo excitation p. 167
L. Naso, L. Rezzolla, A. Bonanno, and L. Paternò
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First superburst from a classical low-mass X-ray binary transient p. 177
L. Keek, J. J. M. in 't Zand, E. Kuulkers, A. Cumming, E. F. Brown, and M. Suzuki
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Stellar atmospheres

Chemical composition of A and F dwarf members of the Coma Berenices open cluster p. 189
M. Gebran, R. Monier, and O. Richard
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Influence of temperature fluctuations on the shape of the spectral continuum p. 207
N. A. Silant'ev and G. A. Alexeeva
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The Sun

The signature of chromospheric heating in Ca II H spectra p. 213
C. Beck, W. Schmidt, R. Rezaei, and W. Rammacher
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Near-IR internetwork spectro-polarimetry at different heliocentric angles p. 229
M. J. Martínez González, A. Asensio Ramos, A. López Ariste, and R. Manso Sainz
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Coronal loop slow mode oscillations driven by the kink instability p. 235
M. Haynes, T. D. Arber, and E. Verwichte
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Planets and planetary systems

Surface properties of Rosetta's targets (21) Lutetia and (2867) Steins from ESO observations p. 241
J. M. Carvano, M. A. Barucci, M. Delbó, S. Fornasier, S. Lowry, and A. Fitzsimmons
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Near-Earth asteroids among the Piscids meteoroid stream p. 249
P. B. Babadzhanov, I. P. Williams, and G. I. Kokhirova
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Oxygen emission lines in the high resolution spectra of 9P/Tempel 1 following the Deep Impact event p. 257
M. T. Capria, G. Cremonese, A. Bhardwaj, M. C. De Sanctis, and E. Mazzotta Epifani
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Polarimetry of the dwarf planet (136199) Eris p. 265
I. Belskaya, S. Bagnulo, K. Muinonen, M. A. Barucci, G. P. Tozzi, S. Fornasier, and L. Kolokolova
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The ELODIE survey for northern extra-solar planets - IV. HD 196885, a close binary star with a 3.7-year planet p. 271
A. C. M. Correia, S. Udry, M. Mayor, A. Eggenberger, D. Naef, J.-L. Beuzit, C. Perrier, D. Queloz, J.-P. Sivan, F. Pepe, N. C. Santos, and D. Ségransan
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Press release

Dynamical evolution of the Gliese 581 planetary system p. 277
H. Beust, X. Bonfils, X. Delfosse, and S. Udry
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Online catalogs and data

XMM-Newton observations of the Lockman Hole: X-ray source catalogue and number counts p. 283
H. Brunner, N. Cappelluti, G. Hasinger, X. Barcons, A. C. Fabian, V. Mainieri, and G. Szokoly
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