Astronomy and Astrophysics
	Vol. 489 No. 2 (October II 2008)
Cover illustration: Convex shape model of asteroid (1620) Geographos (J. Ďurech, et al., p. L26)

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Letters


• Diameter and photospheric structures of Canopus from AMBER/VLTI interferometry     p. L5
  A. Domiciano de Souza, P. Bendjoya, F. Vakili, F. Millour, and R. G. Petrov
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• TW Hydrae: evidence of stellar spots instead of a Hot Jupiter     p. L9
  N. Huélamo, P. Figueira, X. Bonfils, N.C. Santos, F. Pepe, M. Gillon, R. Azevedo, T. Barman, M. Fernández, E. di Folco, E. W. Guenther, C. Lovis, C. H. F. Melo, D. Queloz, and S. Udry
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Erratum

• Integrated specific star formation rates of galaxies, groups, and clusters: a continuous upper limit with stellar mass?     p. L15
  G. Feulner, U. Hopp, and C. S. Botzler
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• Long-term AGILE monitoring of the puzzling gamma-ray source 3EG J1835+5918     p. L17
  A. Bulgarelli, M. Tavani, P. Caraveo, A. W. Chen, F. Gianotti, M. Trifoglio, M. Marelli, A. Argan, G. Barbiellini, F. Boffelli, P. W. Cattaneo, V. Cocco, E. Costa, F. D'Ammando, E. Del Monte, G. De Paris, G. Di Cocco, I. Donnarumma, Y. Evangelista, M. Feroci, M. Fiorini, T. Froysland, F. Fuschino, M. Galli, A. Giuliani, C. Labanti, I. Lapshov, F. Lazzarotto, P. Lipari, F. Longo, M. Marisaldi, S. Mereghetti, A. Morselli, L. Pacciani, A. Pellizzoni, F. Perotti, G. Piano, P. Picozza, M. Prest, G. Pucella, M. Rapisarda, A. Rappoldi, P. Soffitta, A. Trois, E. Vallazza, S. Vercellone, V. Vittorini, A. Zambra, D. Zanello, P. Giommi, C. Pittori, F. Verrecchia, P. Santolamazza, D. Gasparrini, S. Cutini, S. Colafrancesco, and L. Salotti
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• The magnetic field and the location of the TeV emitter in Cygnus X-1 and LS 5039     p. L21
  V. Bosch-Ramon, D. Khangulyan, and F. A. Aharonian
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• Detection of the YORP effect in asteroid (1620) Geographos     p. L25
  J. Ďurech, D. Vokrouhlický, M. Kaasalainen, D. Higgins, Yu. N. Krugly, N. M. Gaftonyuk, V. G. Shevchenko, V. G. Chiorny, H. Hamanowa, H. Hamanowa, V. Reddy, and R. R. Dyvig
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• On the nature of an ejection event in the jet of 3C 111     p. L29
  M. Perucho, I. Agudo, J. L. Gómez, M. Kadler, E. Ros, and Y. Y. Kovalev
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Astrophysical processes
• A jet model for Galactic black-hole X-ray sources: some constraining correlations     p. 481
  N. D. Kylafis, I. E. Papadakis, P. Reig, D. Giannios, and G. G. Pooley
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Cosmology (including clusters of galaxies)
• Carbon monoxide line emission as a CMB foreground: tomography of the star-forming universe with different spectral resolutions     p. 489
  M. Righi, C. Hernández-Monteagudo, and R. A. Sunyaev
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• First supernovae in dwarf protogalaxies     p. 505
  E. O. Vasiliev, E. I. Vorobyov, and Yu. A. Shchekinov
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Extragalactic astronomy
• Multi-frequency investigation of the parsec- and kilo-parsec-scale radio structures in high-redshift quasar PKS 1402+044     p. 517
  J. Yang, L.I. Gurvits, A.P. Lobanov, S. Frey, and X.-Y. Hong
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• The metallicity distribution of the halo and the satellites of the Milky Way in the hierarchical merging paradigm     p. 525
  N. Prantzos
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• The volume densities of giant molecular clouds in M 83     p. 533
  J. S. Heiner, R. J. Allen, O. I. Wong, and P. C. van der Kruit
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• Evolution of tidal disruption candidates discovered by XMM-Newton     p. 543
  P. Esquej, R. D. Saxton, S. Komossa, A. M. Read, M. J. Freyberg, G. Hasinger, D. A. García-Hernández, H. Lu, J. R. Zaurín, M. Sánchez-Portal, and H. Zhou
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• The effect of differential galactic winds on the chemical evolution of galaxies     p. 555
  S. Recchi, E. Spitoni, F. Matteucci, and G. A. Lanfranchi
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Research Note

• Recombination line profiles of embedded clusters     p. 567
  S. C. Beck
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• The environmental dependence of properties of galaxies around the RDCSJ0910+54 cluster at z = 1.1     p. 571
  M. Tanaka, A. Finoguenov, T. Kodama, T. Morokuma, P. Rosati, S. A. Stanford, P. Eisenhardt, B. Holden, and S. Mei
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Galactic structure, stellar clusters, and populations
• Obscured clusters. II. GLIMPSE-C02 – A new metal rich globular cluster in the Milky Way       p. 583
  R. Kurtev, V. D. Ivanov, J. Borissova, and S. Ortolani
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Interstellar and circumstellar matter
• Detection of vibrationally excited methyl formate in W51 e2     p. 589
  K. Demyk, G. Wlodarczak, and M. Carvajal
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Research Note

• Searching for molecular hydrogen mid-infrared emission in the circumstellar environments of Herbig Be stars     p. 601
  C. Martin-Zaïdi, E. F. van Dishoeck, J.-C. Augereau, P.-O. Lagage, and E. Pantin
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• Characterizing the velocity field in hydrodynamical simulations of low-mass star formation using spectral line profiles     p. 607
  C. Brinch, M. R. Hogerheijde, and S. Richling
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• Time-dependent CO depletion during the formation of protoplanetary disks     p. 617
  C. Brinch, R. J. van Weeren, and M. R. Hogerheijde
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• Sub-milliarcsecond precision spectro-astrometry of Be stars     p. 627
  R. D. Oudmaijer, A. M. Parr, D. Baines, and J. M. Porter
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• Probing dust grain evolution in IM Lupi's circumstellar disc - Multi-wavelength observations and modelling of the dust disc     p. 633
  C. Pinte, D. L. Padgett, F. Ménard, K. R. Stapelfeldt, G. Schneider, J. Olofsson, O. Panić , J. C. Augereau, G. Duchêne, J. Krist, K. Pontoppidan, M. D. Perrin, C. A. Grady, J. Kessler-Silacci, E. F. van Dishoeck, D. Lommen, M. Silverstone, D. C. Hines, S. Wolf, G. A. Blake, T. Henning, and B. Stecklum
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Stellar structure and evolution
• ADONIS high contrast infrared imaging of Sirius-B     p. 651
  J. M. Bonnet-Bidaud and E. Pantin
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• INTEGRAL, XMM-Newton and ESO/NTT identification of AX J1749.1-2733: an obscured and probably distant Be/X-ray binary     p. 657
  J. A. Zurita Heras and S. Chaty
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• INTEGRAL long-term monitoring of the supergiant fast X-ray transient XTE J1739-302     p. 669
  P. Blay, S. Martínez-Núñez, I. Negueruela, K. Pottschmidt, D. M. Smith, J. M. Torrejón, P. Reig, P. Kretschmar, and I. Kreykenbohm
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• Solar twins in M 67     p. 677
  L. Pasquini, K. Biazzo, P. Bonifacio, S. Randich, and L. R. Bedin
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• Effects of rotation on the evolution of primordial stars     p. 685
  S. Ekström, G. Meynet, C. Chiappini, R. Hirschi, and A. Maeder
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• Mass transfer variation in the outburst model of dwarf novae and soft X-ray transients     p. 699
  M. Viallet and J.-M. Hameury
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Research Note

• Three X-ray transients in M 31 observed with Swift     p. 707
  R. Voss, W. Pietsch, F. Haberl, H. Stiele, J. Greiner, G. Sala, D. H. Hartmann, and D. Hatzidimitriou
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• High-resolution optical spectroscopy of Plaskett's star     p. 713
  N. Linder, G. Rauw, F. Martins, H. Sana, M. De Becker, and E. Gosset
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• Rapid spectral and timing variability of Be/X-ray binaries during type II outbursts     p. 725
  P. Reig
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The Sun
• Long-period oscillations in solar coronal bright points     p. 741
  H. Tian, L.-D. Xia, and S. Li
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• The photospheric structure of a solar pore with light bridge     p. 747
  S. Giordano, F. Berrilli, D. Del Moro, and V. Penza
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• Stability and mode analysis of solar coronal loops using thermodynamic irreversible energy principles - II. Modes in twisted non-isothermal magnetic field configurations     p. 755
  A. Costa and R. González
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• Magnetic field distribution in the quiet Sun: a simplified model approach     p. 763
  F. Berrilli, D. Del Moro, and B. Viticchiè
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Research Note

• Wave instabilities in an anisotropic magnetized space plasma     p. 769
  N. S. Dzhalilov, V. D. Kuznetsov, and J. Staude
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Research Note

• On the origin of the Balmer and Lyman emission lines in solar prominences     p. 773
  G. Stellmacher and E. Wiehr
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Planets and planetary systems
• Spitzer Space Telescope observations of the nucleus of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko     p. 777
  P. L. Lamy, I. Toth, O. Groussin, L. Jorda, M. S. Kelley, and J. A. Stansberry
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• The non-radial component of the solar wind and motion of dust near mean motion resonances with planets     p. 787
  J. Klačka, L. Kómar, P. Pástor, and J. Petržala
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• Vertical temperature profile and mesospheric winds retrieval on Mars from CO millimeter observations - Comparison with general circulation model predictions     p. 795
  T. Cavalié, F. Billebaud, T. Encrenaz, M. Dobrijevic, J. Brillet, F. Forget, and E. Lellouch
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• Physical and dynamical characterization of (5201) Ferraz-Mello, a possible extinct Jupiter family comet     p. 811
  J. M. Carvano, S. Ferraz-Mello, and D. Lazzaro
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Celestial mechanics and astrometry
• Linear stability of ring systems with generalized central forces     p. 819
  M. Arribas, A. Elipe, and M. Palacios
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• SSSPM J1102-3431 brown dwarf characterization from accurate proper motion and trigonometric parallax     p. 825
  R. Teixeira, C. Ducourant, G. Chauvin, A. Krone-Martins, I. Song, and B. Zuckerman
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Atomic, molecular, and nuclear data


• Recombination rate coefficients of Be-like neon     p. 829
  I. Orban, S. Böhm, S. D. Loch, and R. Schuch
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Astronomical instrumentation


• Identifying XMM-Newton observations affected by solar wind charge exchange. Part I     p. 837
  J. A. Carter and S. Sembay
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Catalogs and data


• A revised catalogue of EGRET -ray sources     p. 849
  J.-M. Casandjian and I. A. Grenier
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• A new stellar library in the region of the CO index at 2.3  m - New index definition and empirical fitting functions     p. 885
  E. Mármol-Queraltó, N. Cardiel, A. J. Cenarro, A. Vazdekis, J. Gorgas, S. Pedraz, R. F. Peletier, and P. Sánchez-Blázquez
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• Polarimetric measures of selected variable stars     p. 911
  N. M. Elias II, R. H. Koch, and R. J. Pfeiffer
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• Spectroscopic investigation of stars on the lower main sequence     p. 923
  T. V. Mishenina, C. Soubiran, O. Bienaymé, S. A. Korotin, S. I. Belik, I. A. Usenko, and V. V. Kovtyukh
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Numerical methods and codes


• A representative particle approach to coagulation and fragmentation of dust aggregates and fluid droplets     p. 931
  A. Zsom and C. P. Dullemond
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