Astronomy & Astrophysics (A&A)

Letters

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The afterglow of GRB 021004: Surfing on density waves p. L5

D. Lazzati, E. Rossi, S. Covino, G. Ghisellini and D. Malesani

Published online: 03 December 2002

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20021618

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The warm-hot intergalactic medium at : Metal enrichment and ionization source p. L11

J. Bergeron, B. Aracil, P. Petitjean and C. Pichon

Published online: 03 December 2002

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20021611

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Modification of cluster radio halo appearance by the thermal Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect p. L17

T. A. Enßlin

Published online: 03 December 2002

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20021613

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Absorption systems in the spectrum of GRB 021004 p. L21

P. Møller, J. P. U. Fynbo, J. Hjorth, B. Thomsen, M. P. Egholm, M. I. Andersen, J. Gorosabel, S. T. Holland, P. Jakobsson, B. L. Jensen et al. (3 more)

Published online: 03 December 2002

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20021612

Astrophysical processes

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Gravitational lensing by spherically symmetric lenses with angular momentum p. 393

M. Sereno and V. F. Cardone

Published online: 03 December 2002

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20021356

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A deep cluster survey in Chandra archival data. First results p. 397

W. Boschin

Published online: 03 December 2002

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20021393

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Suppressing the contribution of intrinsic galaxy alignments to the shear two-point correlation function p. 411

L. King and P. Schneider

Published online: 03 December 2002

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20021372

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Kinetic Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect from galaxy cluster rotation p. 419

J. Chluba and K. Mannheim

Published online: 03 December 2002

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20021429

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Erratum

Detection of molecular hydrogen in a near Solar-metallicity damped Lyman-α system at ≈ 2 toward Q 0551-366 p. 429

C. Ledoux, R. Srianand and P. Petitjean

Published online: 03 December 2002

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20021677

Cosmology (including clusters of galaxies)

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The 2MASS Tully-Fisher relation for flat edge-on galaxies p. 431

I. D. Karachentsev, S. N. Mitronova, V. E. Karachentseva, Yu. N. Kudrya and T. H. Jarrett

Published online: 03 December 2002

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20021451

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Infrared spectroscopy around 4 μm of Seyfert 2 galaxies: Obscured broad line regions and coronal lines p. 439

D. Lutz, R. Maiolino, A. F. M. Moorwood, H. Netzer, S. J. Wagner, E. Sturm and R. Genzel

Published online: 03 December 2002

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20021389

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Hα surface photometry of galaxies in the Virgo cluster - IV. The current star formation in nearby clusters of galaxies p. 449

G. Gavazzi, A. Boselli, P. Pedotti, A. Gallazzi and L. Carrasco

Published online: 03 December 2002

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20021403

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Polarization properties of extragalactic radio sources and their contribution to microwave polarization fluctuations p. 463

D. Mesa, C. Baccigalupi, G. De Zotti, L. Gregorini, K.-H. Mack, M. Vigotti and U. Klein

Published online: 03 December 2002

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20021392

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Tidal dwarfs in the M81 group: The second generation? p. 473

L. N. Makarova, E. K. Grebel, I. D. Karachentsev, A. E. Dolphin, V. E. Karachentseva, M. E. Sharina, D. Geisler, P. Guhathakurta, P. W. Hodge, A. Sarajedini and P. Seitzer

Published online: 03 December 2002

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20021426

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Near IR spectroscopy of active galactic nuclei p. 489

C. Boisson, S. Coupé, J. G. Cuby, M. Joly and M. J. Ward

Published online: 03 December 2002

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20021449

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Spectroscopic study of blue compact galaxies - II. Spectral analysis and correlations p. 503

X. Kong, F. Z. Cheng, A. Weiss and S. Charlot

Published online: 03 December 2002

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20021452

Galactic structure, stellar clusters, and populations

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Stellar rotation and variability in the Orion Nebula Cluster p. 513

W. Herbst, C. A. L. Bailer-Jones, R. Mundt, K. Meisenheimer and R. Wackermann

Published online: 03 December 2002

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20021362

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A new Wolf-Rayet star in Cygnus p. 533

A. Pasquali, F. Comerón, R. Gredel, J. Torra and F. Figueras

Published online: 03 December 2002

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20021373

Interstellar and circumstellar matter

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Long-term photometric behaviour of XZ Dra - Binarity or magnetic cycle of a Blazhko-type RRab star p. 539

J. Jurcsik, J. M. Benkő and B. Szeidl

Published online: 03 December 2002

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20021301

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Detached double-lined eclipsing binaries as critical tests of stellar evolution - Age and metallicity determinations from the HR diagram p. 551

E. Lastennet and D. Valls–Gabaud

Published online: 03 December 2002

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20021312

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Imaging the circumstellar envelope of OH 26.5+0.6 p. 581

D. Fong, K. Justtanont, M. Meixner and M. T. Campbell

Published online: 03 December 2002

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20021272

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On the formation of Super-AGB stars in intermediate mass close binary systems p. 589

P. Gil–Pons and E. García–Berro

Published online: 03 December 2002

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20021416

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The Henize sample of S stars - IV. New symbiotic stars p. 599

S. Van Eck and A. Jorissen

Published online: 03 December 2002

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20021415

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Interior structura variations in the secondary components of two Algol-type eclipsing binary systems: SW Cygni and RR Draconis p. 609

S. B. Qian, L. Y. Zhu and S. Boonrucksar

Published online: 03 December 2002

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20021387

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Rapidly evolving circularly polarized emission during the 1994 outburst of GRO J1655–40 p. 615

J.-P. Macquart, K. Wu, R. J. Sault and D. C. Hannikainen

Published online: 03 December 2002

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20021428

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Asymptotic models of meridional flows in thin viscous accretion disks p. 623

O. Regev and L. Gitelman

Published online: 03 December 2002

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20021492

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Is KT Mon a classical nova? p. 629

T. Kato and H. Yamaoka

Published online: 03 December 2002

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20021519

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Time-resolved, multi-color photometry and spectroscopy of Virgo 4 (OU Vir): A high orbital inclination, short orbital period dwarf nova p. 633

E. Mason, S. B. Howell, P. Szkody, T. E. Harrison, J. A. Holtzman and D. W. Hoard

Published online: 03 December 2002

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20021446

Stellar structure and evolution

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The elemental abundance pattern of twenty λ Bootis candidate stars p. 641

S. M. Andrievsky, I. V. Chernyshova, E. Paunzen, W. W. Weiss, S. A. Korotin, Yu. V. Beletsky, G. Handler, U. Heiter, L. Korotina, C. Stütz and M. Weber

Published online: 03 December 2002

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20021423

The Sun

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The high energy gamma-ray emission expected from Tycho's supernova remnant p. 649

H. J. Völk, E. G. Berezhko, L. T. Ksenofontov and G. P. Rowell

Published online: 03 December 2002

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20021407

Planets and planetary systems

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Coronal holes and the solar polar field reversal p. 657

I. A. Bilenko

Published online: 03 December 2002

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20021412

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On solar radius measurements with Danjon astrolabes p. 667

F. Noël

Published online: 03 December 2002

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20021447

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Band-splitting of coronal and interplanetary type II bursts - II. Coronal magnetic field and Alfvén velocity p. 673

B. Vršnak, J. Magdalenić, H. Aurass and G. Mann

Published online: 03 December 2002

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20021413

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Prolonged millimeter-wave radio emission from a solar flare near the limb p. 683

S. Pohjolainen, J. Hildebrandt, M. Karlický, A. Magun and I. M. Chertok

Published online: 03 December 2002

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20021431

Astronomical instrumentation

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Stability analysis of relativistic jets from collapsars and its implications on the short-term variability of gamma-ray bursts p. 693

M.-A. Aloy, J.-M. Ibáñez, J.-A. Miralles and V. Urpin

Published online: 03 December 2002

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20021367

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Doppler effect of gamma-ray bursts in the fireball framework p. 705

Yi-Ping Qin

Published online: 03 December 2002

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20021439

Catalogs and data

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The FERRUM Project: Experimental oscillator strengths of the UV 8 multiplet and other UV transitions from the P levels of Fe II p. 715

J. C. Pickering, M. P. Donnelly, H. Nilsson, A. Hibbert and S. Johansson

Published online: 03 December 2002

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20021388

Numerical methods and codes

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Wavefront outer scale and seeing measurements at San Pedro Mártir Observatory p. 723

R. Conan, R. Avila, L. J. Sánchez, A. Ziad, F. Martin, J. Borgnino, O. Harris, S. I. González, R. Michel and D. Hiriart

Published online: 03 December 2002

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20021323

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Multiple field of view layer-oriented adaptive optics - Nearly whole sky coverage on 8 m class telescopes and beyond p. 731

R. Ragazzoni, E. Diolaiti, J. Farinato, E. Fedrigo, E. Marchetti, M. Tordi and D. Kirkman

Published online: 03 December 2002

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20021406

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A method to detect p-mode oscillations in solar-like star signals p. 745

C. Régulo and T. Roca Cortés

Published online: 03 December 2002

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20021441

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An improvement of the SAX LECS and MECS positioning accuracy p. 753

M. Perri and M. Capalbi

Published online: 03 December 2002

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20021448

Astronomy & Astrophysics

Volume 396 / No 2 (December III 2002)

Letters

The afterglow of GRB 021004: Surfing on density waves p. L5

The warm-hot intergalactic medium at : Metal enrichment and ionization source p. L11

Modification of cluster radio halo appearance by the thermal Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect p. L17

Absorption systems in the spectrum of GRB 021004 p. L21

Astrophysical processes

Gravitational lensing by spherically symmetric lenses with angular momentum p. 393

A deep cluster survey in Chandra archival data. First results p. 397

Suppressing the contribution of intrinsic galaxy alignments to the shear two-point correlation function p. 411

Kinetic Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect from galaxy cluster rotation p. 419

Detection of molecular hydrogen in a near Solar-metallicity damped Lyman-α system at ≈ 2 toward Q 0551-366 p. 429

Cosmology (including clusters of galaxies)

The 2MASS Tully-Fisher relation for flat edge-on galaxies p. 431

Infrared spectroscopy around 4 μm of Seyfert 2 galaxies: Obscured broad line regions and coronal lines p. 439

Hα surface photometry of galaxies in the Virgo cluster - IV. The current star formation in nearby clusters of galaxies p. 449

Polarization properties of extragalactic radio sources and their contribution to microwave polarization fluctuations p. 463

Tidal dwarfs in the M81 group: The second generation? p. 473

Near IR spectroscopy of active galactic nuclei p. 489

Spectroscopic study of blue compact galaxies - II. Spectral analysis and correlations p. 503

Galactic structure, stellar clusters, and populations

Stellar rotation and variability in the Orion Nebula Cluster p. 513

A new Wolf-Rayet star in Cygnus p. 533

Interstellar and circumstellar matter

Long-term photometric behaviour of XZ Dra - Binarity or magnetic cycle of a Blazhko-type RRab star p. 539

Detached double-lined eclipsing binaries as critical tests of stellar evolution - Age and metallicity determinations from the HR diagram p. 551

Imaging the circumstellar envelope of OH 26.5+0.6 p. 581

On the formation of Super-AGB stars in intermediate mass close binary systems p. 589

The Henize sample of S stars - IV. New symbiotic stars p. 599

Interior structura variations in the secondary components of two Algol-type eclipsing binary systems: SW Cygni and RR Draconis p. 609

Rapidly evolving circularly polarized emission during the 1994 outburst of GRO J1655–40 p. 615

Asymptotic models of meridional flows in thin viscous accretion disks p. 623

Is KT Mon a classical nova? p. 629

Time-resolved, multi-color photometry and spectroscopy of Virgo 4 (OU Vir): A high orbital inclination, short orbital period dwarf nova p. 633

Stellar structure and evolution

The elemental abundance pattern of twenty λ Bootis candidate stars p. 641

The Sun

The high energy gamma-ray emission expected from Tycho's supernova remnant p. 649

Planets and planetary systems

Coronal holes and the solar polar field reversal p. 657

On solar radius measurements with Danjon astrolabes p. 667

Band-splitting of coronal and interplanetary type II bursts - II. Coronal magnetic field and Alfvén velocity p. 673

Prolonged millimeter-wave radio emission from a solar flare near the limb p. 683

Astronomical instrumentation

Stability analysis of relativistic jets from collapsars and its implications on the short-term variability of gamma-ray bursts p. 693

Doppler effect of gamma-ray bursts in the fireball framework p. 705

Catalogs and data

The FERRUM Project: Experimental oscillator strengths of the UV 8 multiplet and other UV transitions from the P levels of Fe II p. 715

Numerical methods and codes

Wavefront outer scale and seeing measurements at San Pedro Mártir Observatory p. 723

Multiple field of view layer-oriented adaptive optics - Nearly whole sky coverage on 8 m class telescopes and beyond p. 731

A method to detect p-mode oscillations in solar-like star signals p. 745

An improvement of the SAX LECS and MECS positioning accuracy p. 753