Astronomy & Astrophysics (A&A)

Letters

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The origin of GEMS in IDPs as deduced from microstructural evolution of amorphous silicates with annealing p. L1

C. Davoisne, Z. Djouadi, H. Leroux, L. d'Hendecourt, A. Jones and D. Deboffle

Published online: 17 February 2006

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:200600002

Astrophysical processes

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Multi-spot ignition in type Ia supernova models p. 1

F. K. Röpke, W. Hillebrandt, J. C. Niemeyer and S. E. Woosley

Published online: 17 February 2006

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20053926

Cosmology (including clusters of galaxies)

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Precessing jets from a moving source and bright X-ray filaments in galaxy clusters p. 15

M. Rodríguez-Martínez, P. F. Velázquez, L. Binette and A. C. Raga

Published online: 17 February 2006

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20053382

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Big-bang nucleosynthesis in a Brans-Dicke cosmology with a varying term related to WMAP p. 23

R. Nakamura, M. Hashimoto, S. Gamow and K. Arai

Published online: 17 February 2006

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20042618

Extragalactic astronomy

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Molecular gas in the galaxy cluster Abell 262 - CO observations of UGC 1347 and other galaxies of the cluster p. 29

T. Bertram, A. Eckart, M. Krips, J. G. Staguhn and W. Hackenberg

Published online: 17 February 2006

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20042564

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The multi-phase gaseous halos of star forming late-type galaxies - I. XMM-Newton observations of the hot ionized medium p. 43

R. Tüllmann, W. Pietsch, J. Rossa, D. Breitschwerdt and R.-J. Dettmar

Published online: 17 February 2006

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20052936

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AGB stars in the Magellanic Clouds - II. The rate of star formation across the LMC p. 77

M.-R. L. Cioni, L. Girardi, P. Marigo and H. J. Habing

Published online: 17 February 2006

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20053933

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A deep XMM-Newton serendipitous survey of a middle-latitude area p. 93

G. Novara, N. La Palombara, N. Carangelo, A. De Luca, P. A. Caraveo, R. P. Mignani and G. F. Bignami

Published online: 17 February 2006

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20053476

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The evolution of the luminosity functions in the FORS deep field from low to high redshift - II. The red bands p. 101

A. Gabasch, U. Hopp, G. Feulner, R. Bender, S. Seitz, R. P. Saglia, J. Snigula, N. Drory, I. Appenzeller, J. Heidt et al. (5 more)

Published online: 17 February 2006

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20053986

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On the neutral gas distribution and kinematics in the dwarf irregular galaxy IC 1613 p. 123

S. Silich, T. Lozinskaya, A. Moiseev, N. Podorvanuk, M. Rosado, J. Borissova and M. Valdez-Gutierrez

Published online: 17 February 2006

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20053326

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Radio polarization and sub-millimeter observations of the Sombrero galaxy (NGC 4594) - Large-scale magnetic field configuration and dust emission p. 133

M. Krause, R. Wielebinski and M. Dumke

Published online: 17 February 2006

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20053789

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B and I-band optical micro-variability observations of the BL Lac objects S5 2007+777 and 3C 371 p. 143

E. M. Xilouris, I. E. Papadakis, P. Boumis, A. Dapergolas, J. Alikakos, J. Papamastorakis, N. Smith and C. D. Goudis

Published online: 17 February 2006

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20054054

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Wide-field kinematics of globular clusters in the Leo I group p. 155

G. Bergond, S. E. Zepf, A. J. Romanowsky, R. M. Sharples and K. L. Rhode

Published online: 17 February 2006

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20053697

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[] profile substructure in radio–quiet quasars p. 165

C. Leipski and N. Bennert

Published online: 17 February 2006

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20054459

Galactic structure, stellar clusters, and populations

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Probable member stars of the gravitational theory-testing globular clusters AM 1, Pal 3 and Pal 14 p. 171

M. Hilker

Published online: 17 February 2006

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20054327

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The mid- and far-infrared colours of AGB and post-AGB stars p. 181

M. A. T. Groenewegen

Published online: 17 February 2006

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20054163

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Exploring the lower mass function in the young open cluster IC 4665 p. 189

W. J. de Wit, J. Bouvier, F. Palla, J.-C. Cuillandre, D. J. James, T. R. Kendall, N. Lodieu, M. J. McCaughrean, E. Moraux, S. Randich and L. Testi

Published online: 17 February 2006

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20054102

Interstellar and circumstellar matter

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New insights on the complex planetary nebula Hen 2-113 p. 203

E. Lagadec, O. Chesneau, M. Matsuura, O. De Marco, J. A. de Freitas Pacheco, A. A. Zijlstra, A. Acker, G. C. Clayton and B. Lopez

Published online: 17 February 2006

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20053803

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A new large high latitude cone-like far-IR nebula p. 213

B. Aryal and R. Weinberger

Published online: 17 February 2006

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20042440

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A search for fine structure inside high resolution profiles of weak diffuse interstellar bands p. 221

K. Słyk, G. A. Galazutdinov, F. A. Musaev, A. V. Bondar, M. R. Schmidt and J. Krełowski

Published online: 17 February 2006

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20052653

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Emission lines from rotating proto-stellar jets with variable velocity profiles - I. Three-dimensional numerical simulation of the non-magnetic case p. 231

A. H. Cerqueira, P. F. Velázquez, A. C. Raga, M. J. Vasconcelos and F. De Colle

Published online: 17 February 2006

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20054110

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A new look into the Helios dust experiment data: presence of interstellar dust inside the Earth's orbit p. 243

N. Altobelli, E. Grün and M. Landgraf

Published online: 17 February 2006

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20053909

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Comparative chemistry of diffuse clouds - V. Ammonia and formaldehyde p. 253

H. S. Liszt, R. Lucas and J. Pety

Published online: 17 February 2006

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20054071

Stellar structure and evolution

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IGR J17252-3616: an accreting pulsar observed by INTEGRAL and XMM-Newton p. 261

J. A. Zurita Heras, G. De Cesare, R. Walter, A. Bodaghee, G. Bélanger, T. J.-L. Courvoisier, S. E. Shaw and J. B. Stephen

Published online: 17 February 2006

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20053876

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Near-infrared speckle interferometry and radiative transfer modelling of the carbon star LP Andromedae p. 271

A. B. Men'shchikov, Y. Y. Balega, M. Berger, T. Driebe, K.-H. Hofmann, A. F. Maximov, D. Schertl, V. I. Shenavrin and G. Weigelt

Published online: 17 February 2006

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20052976

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Separation of composite spectra: the spectroscopic detection of an eclipsing binary star p. 283

J. F. González and H. Levato

Published online: 17 February 2006

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20053177

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X-ray emission of brown dwarfs: towards constraining the dependence on age, luminosity, and temperature p. 293

B. Stelzer, G. Micela, E. Flaccomio, R. Neuhäuser and R. Jayawardhana

Published online: 17 February 2006

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20053677

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GCIRS34W: an irregular variable in the Galactic Centre p. 305

S. Trippe, F. Martins, T. Ott, T. Paumard, R. Abuter, F. Eisenhauer, S. Gillessen, R. Genzel, A. Eckart and R. Schödel

Published online: 17 February 2006

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20053173

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Subaru optical observations of the two middle-aged pulsars PSR B0656+14 and Geminga p. 313

Y. A. Shibanov, S. V. Zharikov, V. N. Komarova, N. Kawai, Y. Urata, A. B. Koptsevich, V. V. Sokolov, S. Shibata and N. Shibazaki

Published online: 17 February 2006

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20054178

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Population synthesis as a probe of neutron star thermal evolution p. 327

S. Popov, H. Grigorian, R. Turolla and D. Blaschke

Published online: 17 February 2006

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20042412

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INTEGRAL high energy behaviour of 4U 1812-12 p. 335

A. Tarana, A. Bazzano, P. Ubertini, M. Cocchi, D. Götz, F. Capitanio, A. J. Bird and M. Fiocchi

Published online: 17 February 2006

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20053917

Stellar atmospheres

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High precision determination of the atmospheric parameters and abundances of the COROT main targets p. 341

M. Gillon and P. Magain

Published online: 17 February 2006

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20053965

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Detailed spectroscopic analysis of the Trapezium cluster stars inside the Orion nebula - Rotational velocities, stellar parameters, and oxygen abundances p. 351

S. Simón-Díaz, A. Herrero, C. Esteban and F. Najarro

Published online: 17 February 2006

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20053066

The Sun

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Radiative transfer in cylindrical threads with incident radiation - III. Hydrogen spectrum p. 367

P. Gouttebroze

Published online: 17 February 2006

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20054139

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Resonant absorption in dissipative flux tubes p. 375

H. Safari, S. Nasiri, K. Karami and Y. Sobouti

Published online: 17 February 2006

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20053588

Planets and planetary systems

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The transmission spectrum of Earth-size transiting planets p. 379

D. Ehrenreich, G. Tinetti, A. Lecavelier des Etangs, A. Vidal-Madjar and F. Selsis

Published online: 17 February 2006

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20053861

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Applicability of the discrete-dipole approximation to light-scattering simulations of large cosmic dust aggregates p. 395

M. Köhler, H. Kimura and I. Mann

Published online: 17 February 2006

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20053332

Celestial mechanics and astrometry

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Non-gravitational motion of the Jupiter-family comet 81P/Wild 2 - I. The dynamical evolution p. 401

M. Królikowska and S. Szutowicz

Published online: 17 February 2006

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20053756

Online catalogs and data

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An absolutely calibrated survey of polarized emission from the northern sky at 1.4 GHz - Observations and data reduction p. 411

M. Wolleben, T. L. Landecker, W. Reich and R. Wielebinski

Published online: 17 February 2006

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20053851

Astronomy & Astrophysics

Volume 448 / No 1 (March II 2006)

Letters

The origin of GEMS in IDPs as deduced from microstructural evolution of amorphous silicates with annealing p. L1

Astrophysical processes

Multi-spot ignition in type Ia supernova models p. 1

Cosmology (including clusters of galaxies)

Precessing jets from a moving source and bright X-ray filaments in galaxy clusters p. 15

Big-bang nucleosynthesis in a Brans-Dicke cosmology with a varying term related to WMAP p. 23

Extragalactic astronomy

Molecular gas in the galaxy cluster Abell 262 - CO observations of UGC 1347 and other galaxies of the cluster p. 29

The multi-phase gaseous halos of star forming late-type galaxies - I. XMM-Newton observations of the hot ionized medium p. 43

AGB stars in the Magellanic Clouds - II. The rate of star formation across the LMC p. 77

A deep XMM-Newton serendipitous survey of a middle-latitude area p. 93

The evolution of the luminosity functions in the FORS deep field from low to high redshift - II. The red bands p. 101

On the neutral gas distribution and kinematics in the dwarf irregular galaxy IC 1613 p. 123

Radio polarization and sub-millimeter observations of the Sombrero galaxy (NGC 4594) - Large-scale magnetic field configuration and dust emission p. 133

B and I-band optical micro-variability observations of the BL Lac objects S5 2007+777 and 3C 371 p. 143

Wide-field kinematics of globular clusters in the Leo I group p. 155

[] profile substructure in radio–quiet quasars p. 165

Galactic structure, stellar clusters, and populations

Probable member stars of the gravitational theory-testing globular clusters AM 1, Pal 3 and Pal 14 p. 171

The mid- and far-infrared colours of AGB and post-AGB stars p. 181

Exploring the lower mass function in the young open cluster IC 4665 p. 189

Interstellar and circumstellar matter

New insights on the complex planetary nebula Hen 2-113 p. 203

A new large high latitude cone-like far-IR nebula p. 213

A search for fine structure inside high resolution profiles of weak diffuse interstellar bands p. 221

Emission lines from rotating proto-stellar jets with variable velocity profiles - I. Three-dimensional numerical simulation of the non-magnetic case p. 231

A new look into the Helios dust experiment data: presence of interstellar dust inside the Earth's orbit p. 243

Comparative chemistry of diffuse clouds - V. Ammonia and formaldehyde p. 253

Stellar structure and evolution

IGR J17252-3616: an accreting pulsar observed by INTEGRAL and XMM-Newton p. 261

Near-infrared speckle interferometry and radiative transfer modelling of the carbon star LP Andromedae p. 271

Separation of composite spectra: the spectroscopic detection of an eclipsing binary star p. 283

X-ray emission of brown dwarfs: towards constraining the dependence on age, luminosity, and temperature p. 293

GCIRS34W: an irregular variable in the Galactic Centre p. 305

Subaru optical observations of the two middle-aged pulsars PSR B0656+14 and Geminga p. 313

Population synthesis as a probe of neutron star thermal evolution p. 327

INTEGRAL high energy behaviour of 4U 1812-12 p. 335

Stellar atmospheres

High precision determination of the atmospheric parameters and abundances of the COROT main targets p. 341

Detailed spectroscopic analysis of the Trapezium cluster stars inside the Orion nebula - Rotational velocities, stellar parameters, and oxygen abundances p. 351

The Sun

Radiative transfer in cylindrical threads with incident radiation - III. Hydrogen spectrum p. 367

Resonant absorption in dissipative flux tubes p. 375

Planets and planetary systems

The transmission spectrum of Earth-size transiting planets p. 379

Applicability of the discrete-dipole approximation to light-scattering simulations of large cosmic dust aggregates p. 395

Celestial mechanics and astrometry

Non-gravitational motion of the Jupiter-family comet 81P/Wild 2 - I. The dynamical evolution p. 401

Online catalogs and data

An absolutely calibrated survey of polarized emission from the northern sky at 1.4 GHz - Observations and data reduction p. 411