Astronomy and Astrophysics
	Vol. 491 No. 3 (December I 2008)
Cover illustration: Mechanisms of interstellar water ice photodesorption (S. Andersson, et al., p. 911)

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Letters


• Embryos grown in the dead zone - Assembling the first protoplanetary cores in low mass self-gravitating circumstellar disks of gas and solids     p. L41
  W. Lyra, A. Johansen, H. Klahr, and N. Piskunov
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• An enigmatic H I cloud     p. L45
  L. Dedes, C. Dedes, and P. W. M. Kalberla
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Astrophysical processes
• Astrophysical dust formation under the influence of temperature fluctuations - A general stochastic approach and its application to AGB winds     p. 643
  U. Dirks, V. Schirrmacher, and E. Sedlmayr
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• Coagulation of small grains in disks: the influence of residual infall and initial small-grain content     p. 663
  C. Dominik and C. P. Dullemond
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• A three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic model of planetary nebula jets, knots, and filaments     p. 671
  K. H. Tsui
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Cosmology (including clusters of galaxies)
• Photometric redshifts as a tool for studying the Coma cluster galaxy populations     p. 681
  C. Adami, O. Ilbert, R. Pelló, J. C. Cuillandre, F. Durret, A. Mazure, J. P. Picat, and M. P. Ulmer
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Extragalactic astronomy
• On surface brightness fluctuations: probabilistic and statistical bases - I. Stellar population and theoretical surface brightness fluctuations     p. 693
  M. Cerviño, V. Luridiana, and L. Jamet
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• HCN(1–0) enhancement in the bar of NGC 2903     p. 703
  S. Leon, S. Jeyakumar, D. Pérez-Ramírez, L. Verdes-Montenegro, S. W. Lee, and B. Ocaña Flaquer
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• The VVDS-SWIRE-GALEX-CFHTLS surveys: physical properties of galaxies at z below 1.2 from photometric data     p. 713
  C. J. Walcher, F. Lamareille, D. Vergani, S. Arnouts, V. Buat, S. Charlot, L. Tresse, O. Le Fèvre, M. Bolzonella, J. Brinchmann, L. Pozzetti, G. Zamorani, D. Bottini, B. Garilli, V. Le Brun, D. Maccagni, B. Milliard, R. Scaramella, M. Scodeggio, G. Vettolani, A. Zanichelli, C. Adami, S. Bardelli, A. Cappi, P. Ciliegi, T. Contini, P. Franzetti, S. Foucaud, I. Gavignaud, L. Guzzo, O. Ilbert, A. Iovino, H. J. McCracken, B. Marano, C. Marinoni, A. Mazure, B. Meneux, R. Merighi, S. Paltani, R. Pellò, A. Pollo, M. Radovich, E. Zucca, C. Lonsdale, and C. Martin
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• The Kormendy relation for early-type galaxies - Dependence on the magnitude range     p. 731
  A. Nigoche-Netro, A. Ruelas-Mayorga, and A. Franco-Balderas
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• Drastic changes in the molecular absorption at redshift z = 0.89 toward the quasar PKS 1830–211     p. 739
  S. Muller and M. Guélin
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• The CO line SED and atomic carbon in IRAS F10214+4724     p. 747
  Y. Ao, A. Weiß, D. Downes, F. Walter, C. Henkel, and K. M. Menten
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• A new activity phase of the blazar 3C 454.3 - Multifrequency observations by the WEBT and XMM-Newton in 2007–2008     p. 755
  C. M. Raiteri, M. Villata, V. M. Larionov, M. A. Gurwell, W. P. Chen, O. M. Kurtanidze, M. F. Aller, M. Böttcher, P. Calcidese, F. Hroch, A. Lähteenmäki, C.-U. Lee, K. Nilsson, J. Ohlert, I. E. Papadakis, I. Agudo, H. D. Aller, E. Angelakis, A. A. Arkharov, U. Bach, R. Bachev, A. Berdyugin, C. S. Buemi, D. Carosati, P. Charlot, E. Chatzopoulos, E. Forné, A. Frasca, L. Fuhrmann, J. L. Gómez, A. C. Gupta, V. A. Hagen-Thorn, W.-S. Hsiao, B. Jordan, S. G. Jorstad, T. S. Konstantinova, E. N. Kopatskaya, T. P. Krichbaum, L. Lanteri, L. V. Larionova, G. Latev, J.-F. Le Campion, P. Leto, H.-C. Lin, N. Marchili, E. Marilli, A. P. Marscher, B. McBreen, B. Mihov, R. Nesci, F. Nicastro, M. G. Nikolashvili, R. Novak, E. Ovcharov, E. Pian, D. Principe, T. Pursimo, B. Ragozzine, J. A. Ros, A. C. Sadun, R. Sagar, E. Semkov, R. L. Smart, N. Smith, A. Strigachev, L. O. Takalo, M. Tavani, M. Tornikoski, C. Trigilio, K. Uckert, G. Umana, A. Valcheva, S. Vercellone, A. Volvach, and H. Wiesemeyer
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Galactic structure, stellar clusters, and populations
• The old Galactic open clusters FSR 1716 and Czernik 23     p. 767
  C. Bonatto and E. Bica
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• The long Galactic bar as seen by UKIDSS Galactic plane survey     p. 781
  A. Cabrera-Lavers, C. González-Fernández, F. Garzón, P. L. Hammersley, and M. López-Corredoira
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Interstellar and circumstellar matter
• H I and CO in the circumstellar environment of the oxygen-rich AGB star RX Leporis     p. 789
  Y. Libert, T. Le Bertre, E. Gérard, and J. M. Winters
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• Dust processing in photodissociation regions - Mid-IR emission modelling     p. 797
  M. Compiègne, A. Abergel, L. Verstraete, and E. Habart
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• The structure of the protoplanetary disk surrounding three young intermediate mass stars - II. Spatially resolved dust and gas distribution     p. 809
  D. Fedele, M. E. van den Ancker, B. Acke, G. van der Plas, R. van Boekel, M. Wittkowski, Th. Henning, J. Bouwman, G. Meeus, and P. Rafanelli
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• Chemistry in disks - II. Poor molecular content of the AB Aurigae disk     p. 821
  K. Schreyer, S. Guilloteau, D. Semenov, A. Bacmann, E. Chapillon, A. Dutrey, F. Gueth, T. Henning, F. Hersant, R. Launhardt, J. Pety, and V. Piétu
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Stellar structure and evolution
Research Note

• Identification of the TW Hydrae association member 2M1235-39: a tertiary component of the HR 4796 system     p. 829
  J. H. Kastner, B. Zuckerman, and M. Bessell
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• Giant outburst of EXO 2030+375: pulse-phase resolved analysis of INTEGRAL data     p. 833
  D. Klochkov, A. Santangelo, R. Staubert, and C. Ferrigno
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• XMM-Newton observations of the Small Magellanic Cloud: Long term evolution of frequently observed Be/X-ray binaries     p. 841
  P. Eger and F. Haberl
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• Discovery of X-ray emission from the eclipsing brown-dwarf binary 2MASS J05352184-0546085     p. 851
  S. Czesla, P. C. Schneider, and J. H. M. M. Schmitt
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Stellar atmospheres
Research Note

• The angular sizes of dwarf stars and subgiants - Non-linear surface brightness relations in from interferometry     p. 855
  P. Kervella and P. Fouqué
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• Coronal properties of the EQ Pegasi binary system     p. 859
  C. Liefke, J.-U. Ness, J. H. M. M. Schmitt, and A. Maggio
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The Sun
• Low coronal observations of metric type II associated CMEs by MLSO coronameters     p. 873
  K.-S. Cho, S.-C. Bong, Y.-H. Kim, Y.-J. Moon, M. Dryer, A. Shanmugaraju, J. Lee, and Y. D. Park
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Planets and planetary systems
• Extrasolar planets and brown dwarfs around A–F type stars - V. A planetary system found with HARPS around the F6IV–V star HD 60532     p. 883
  M. Desort, A.-M. Lagrange, F. Galland, H. Beust, S. Udry, M. Mayor, and G. Lo Curto
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Press release

• Transiting exoplanets from the CoRoT space mission - VI. CoRoT-Exo-3b: the first secure inhabitant of the brown-dwarf desert     p. 889
  M. Deleuil, H. J. Deeg, R. Alonso, F. Bouchy, D. Rouan, M. Auvergne, A. Baglin, S. Aigrain, J. M. Almenara, M. Barbieri, P. Barge, H. Bruntt, P. Bordé, A. Collier Cameron, Sz. Csizmadia, R. De la Reza, R. Dvorak, A. Erikson, M. Fridlund, D. Gandolfi, M. Gillon, E. Guenther, T. Guillot, A. Hatzes, G. Hébrard, L. Jorda, H. Lammer, A. Léger, A. Llebaria, B. Loeillet, M. Mayor, T. Mazeh, C. Moutou, M. Ollivier, M. Pätzold, F. Pont, D. Queloz, H. Rauer, J. Schneider, A. Shporer, G. Wuchterl, and S. Zucker
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• Stellar wobble caused by a binary system: Can it really be mistaken as an extra-solar planet?     p. 899
  M. H. M. Morais and A. C. M. Correia
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Atomic, molecular, and nuclear data


• Photodesorption of water ice - A molecular dynamics study     p. 907
  S. Andersson and E. F. van Dishoeck
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Astronomical instrumentation


• First statistics of the turbulence outer scale at Dome C     p. 917
  A. Ziad, E. Aristidi, A. Agabi, J. Borgnino, F. Martin, and E. Fossat
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• Sensitivity of a bolometric interferometer to the cosmic microwave backgroud power spectrum     p. 923
  J.-Ch. Hamilton, R. Charlassier, C. Cressiot, J. Kaplan, M. Piat, and C. Rosset
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• High precision radial velocity measurements in the infrared - A first assessment of the RV stability of CRIRES     p. 929
  A. Seifahrt and H. U. Käufl
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• HAWK-I: the high-acuity wide-field K-band imager for the ESO Very Large Telescope     p. 941
  M. Kissler-Patig, J.-F. Pirard, M. Casali, A. Moorwood, N. Ageorges, C. Alves De Oliveira, P. Baksai, L. R. Bedin, E. Bendek, P. Biereichel, B. Delabre, R. Dorn, R. Esteves, G. Finger, D. Gojak, G. Huster, Y. Jung, M. Kiekebush, B. Klein, F. Koch, J.-L. Lizon, L. Mehrgan, M. Petr-Gotzens, J. Pritchard, F. Selman, and J. Stegmeier
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Catalogs and data


• Membership, binarity, and rotation of red dwarfs in the nearby open cluster Coma Berenices (Melotte 111)     p. 951
  J.-C. Mermilliod, M. Grenon, and M. Mayor
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• New deep XMM-Newton observations to the west of the  Orionis cluster     p. 961
  J. López-Santiago and J. A. Caballero
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