M. Guélin, P. Salomé, R. Neri, S. García-Burillo, J. Graciá-Carpio, J. Cernicharo, P. Cox, P. Planesas, P. M. Solomon, L. J. Tacconi and P. Vanden Bout

Published online: 18 December 2006

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20066555

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Candidate tidal disruption events from the XMM-Newton slew survey p. L49

P. Esquej, R. D. Saxton, M. J. Freyberg, A. M. Read, B. Altieri, M. Sanchez-Portal and G. Hasinger

Published online: 18 December 2006

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20066072

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A highly-collimated SiO jet in the HH212 protostellar outflow p. L53

C. Codella, S. Cabrit, F. Gueth, R. Cesaroni, F. Bacciotti, B. Lefloch and M. J. McCaughrean

Published online: 18 December 2006

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20066800

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Extensive multiband study of the X-ray rich GRB 050408 - A likely off-axis event with an intense energy injection p. L57

A. de Ugarte Postigo, T. A. Fatkhullin, G. Jóhannesson, J. Gorosabel, V. V. Sokolov, A. J. Castro-Tirado, Yu. Yu. Balega, O. I. Spiridonova, M. Jelínek, S. Guziy et al. (33 more)

Published online: 18 December 2006

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20066660

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The widest ultracool binary p. L61

J. A. Caballero

Published online: 19 December 2006

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20066814

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Effect of dark matter annihilation on gas cooling and star formation p. L65

Y. Ascasibar

Published online: 18 December 2006

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20066880

Cosmology (including clusters of galaxies)

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Clumpiness of dark matter and the positron annihilation signal p. 827

J. Lavalle, J. Pochon, P. Salati and R. Taillet

Published online: 24 October 2006

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20065312

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The ring statistics – how to separate E- and B-modes of cosmic shear correlation functions on a finite interval p. 841

P. Schneider and M. Kilbinger

Published online: 09 October 2006

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20065532

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First stars VII - Lithium in extremely metal poor dwarfs p. 851

P. Bonifacio, P. Molaro, T. Sivarani, R. Cayrel, M. Spite, F. Spite, B. Plez, J. Andersen, B. Barbuy, T. C. Beers et al. (5 more)

Published online: 21 November 2006

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20064834

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GaBoDS: the Garching-Bonn deep survey - VIII. Lyman-break galaxies in the ESO deep public survey p. 865

H. Hildebrandt, J. Pielorz, T. Erben, P. Schneider, T. Eifler, P. Simon and J. P. Dietrich

Published online: 13 November 2006

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20065880

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GaBoDS: the Garching-Bonn Deep Survey - IX. A sample of 158 shear-selected mass concentration candidates p. 875

M. Schirmer, T. Erben, M. Hetterscheidt and P. Schneider

Published online: 13 November 2006

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20065955

Extragalactic astronomy

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Swift XRT and UVOT deep observations of the high-energy peaked BL Lacertae object PKS 0548–322 close to its brightest state p. 889

M. Perri, A. Maselli, P. Giommi, E. Massaro, R. Nesci, A. Tramacere, M. Capalbi, G. Cusumano, G. Chincarini, G. Tagliaferri et al. (4 more)

Published online: 21 November 2006

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20066063

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A new analysis of the MEGA M 31 microlensing events p. 895

G. Ingrosso, S. Calchi Novati, F. De Paolis, Ph. Jetzer, A. A. Nucita, G. Scarpetta and F. Strafella

Published online: 21 November 2006

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20065851

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Highly-magnified, multiply-imaged radio counterparts of the sub-mm starburst emission in the cluster-lens MS0451.6-0305 p. 903

A. Berciano Alba, M. A. Garrett, L. V. E. Koopmans and O. Wucknitz

Published online: 13 November 2006

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20065223

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Long-term monitoring of the X-ray afterglow of GRB 050408 with Swift/XRT p. 913

M. Capalbi, D. Malesani, M. Perri, P. Giommi, S. Covino, G. Cusumano, V. Mangano, T. Mineo, S. Campana, G. Chincarini et al. (13 more)

Published online: 21 November 2006

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20065388

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HI-observations of blue compact dwarf galaxies. II. p. 919

W. K. Huchtmeier, A. Petrosian, Gopal-Krishna and D. Kunth

Published online: 24 October 2006

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20065712

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A NICMOS search for obscured supernovae in starburst galaxies p. 927

G. Cresci, F. Mannucci, M. Della Valle and R. Maiolino

Published online: 29 November 2006

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20065364

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Magnetic fields and ionized gas in nearby late type galaxies p. 933

K. T. Chyży, D. J. Bomans, M. Krause, R. Beck, M. Soida and M. Urbanik

Published online: 13 November 2006

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20065932

Galactic structure, stellar clusters, and populations

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Abundance gradients in the Milky Way for α elements, iron peak elements, barium, lanthanum, and europium p. 943

G. Cescutti, F. Matteucci, P. François and C. Chiappini

Published online: 03 November 2006

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20065403

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The abundance pattern of O, Mg, Si, and Fe in the intracluster medium of the Centaurus cluster observed with XMM-Newton p. 953

K. Matsushita, H. Böhringer, I. Takahashi and Y. Ikebe

Published online: 13 November 2006

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20041577

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The surface brightness of the Galaxy at the solar neighbourhood p. 965

A.-L. Melchior, F. Combes and A. Gould

Published online: 13 November 2006

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20066188

Interstellar and circumstellar matter

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The photophoretic sweeping of dust in transient protoplanetary disks p. 977

O. Krauss, G. Wurm, O. Mousis, J.-M. Petit, J. Horner and Y. Alibert

Published online: 21 November 2006

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20066363

Stellar structure and evolution

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Towards a pure ZZ Ceti instability strip p. 989

B. G. Castanheira, S. O. Kepler, A. F. M. Costa, O. Giovannini, E. L. Robinson, D. E. Winget, S. J. Kleinman, A. Nitta, D. Eisenstein, D. Koester and M. G. Santos

Published online: 13 November 2006

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20065886

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INTEGRAL observation of the accreting pulsar GX 1+4 p. 995

C. Ferrigno, A. Segreto, A. Santangelo, J. Wilms, I. Kreykenbohm, M. Denis and R. Staubert

Published online: 03 November 2006

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20053878

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Computation of the Fourier parameters of RR Lyrae stars by template fitting p. 1007

G. Kovács and G. Kupi

Published online: 21 November 2006

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20066050

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Effects of color superconductivity on the nucleation of quark matter in neutron stars p. 1017

I. Bombaci, G. Lugones and I. Vidaña

Published online: 13 November 2006

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20065259

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Discovery of δ Scuti pulsation in the Herbig Ae star VV Serpentis p. 1023

V. Ripepi, S. Bernabei, M. Marconi, A. Ruoppo, F. Palla, M. J. P. F. G. Monteiro, J. P. Marques, P. Ferrara, S. Marinoni and L. Terranegra

Published online: 13 November 2006

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20065728

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Seismic inference of differential rotation in Procyon A p. 1031

A. Bonanno, M. Küker and L. Paternò

Published online: 13 November 2006

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20065892

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Accretion of chemically fractionated material on a wide binary with a blue straggler p. 1039

S. Desidera, R. G. Gratton, S. Lucatello, M. Endl and S. Udry

Published online: 13 November 2006

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20066150

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A method to derive the absolute composition of the Sun, the solar system, and the stars p. 1051

L. Piersanti, O. Straniero and S. Cristallo

Published online: 21 November 2006

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20054505

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On shear-induced turbulence in rotating stars p. 1063

S. Mathis, A. Palacios and J.-P. Zahn

Published online: 04 August 2006

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20040279e

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Chandra X-ray counterpart of KS 1741–293 p. 1065

J. Martí, J. A. Combi, D. Pérez-Ramírez, J. L. Garrido, P. Luque-Escamilla, A. J. Muñoz-Arjonilla and J. R. Sánchez-Sutil

Published online: 27 November 2006

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20066426

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Determination of the basic parameters of the dwarf nova EY Cygni p. 1069

J. Echevarría, R. Michel, R. Costero and S. Zharikov

Published online: 13 November 2006

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20052906

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The Be/X-ray transient 4U 0115+63/V635 Cassiopeiae - III. Quasi-cyclic variability p. 1081

P. Reig, V. Larionov, I. Negueruela, A. A. Arkharov and N. A. Kudryavtseva

Published online: 13 November 2006

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20066217

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Photometric analysis of the optical counterpart of the black hole HMXB M 33 X-7 p. 1091

A. Shporer, J. Hartman, T. Mazeh and W. Pietsch

Published online: 18 December 2006

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20066354

Stellar atmospheres

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The fraction of DA white dwarfs with kilo-Gauss magnetic fields p. 1097

S. Jordan, R. Aznar Cuadrado, R. Napiwotzki, H. M. Schmid and S. K. Solanki

Published online: 21 November 2006

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20066163

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Pulsation in the atmosphere of the roAp star HD 24712 - I. Spectroscopic observations and radial velocity measurements p. 1103

T. Ryabchikova, M. Sachkov, W. W. Weiss, T. Kallinger, O. Kochukhov, S. Bagnulo, I. Ilyin, J. D. Landstreet, F. Leone, G. Lo Curto et al. (3 more)

Published online: 13 November 2006

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20066365

The Sun

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High energy particle transport in stochastic magnetic fields in the solar corona p. 1113

M. Gkioulidou, G. Zimbardo, P. Pommois, P. Veltri and L. Vlahos

Published online: 03 November 2006

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20065747

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Magnetic properties of flare-CME productive active regions and CME speed p. 1121

J. Guo, H. Q. Zhang and O. V. Chumak

Published online: 03 November 2006

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20065888

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Energy leakage as an attenuation mechanism for vertical kink oscillations in solar coronal wave guides p. 1127

M. Selwa, K. Murawski, S. K. Solanki and T. J. Wang

Published online: 18 October 2006

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20065122

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The usefulness of analytic response functions p. 1137

D. Orozco Suárez and J. C. del Toro Iniesta

Published online: 13 November 2006

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20066201

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Supersonic downflows in the vicinity of a growing pore - Evidence of unresolved magnetic fine structure at chromospheric heights p. 1147

A. Lagg, J. Woch, S. K. Solanki and N. Krupp

Published online: 03 November 2006

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20054700

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Narrow-band imaging in the CN band at 388.33 nm p. 1157

H. Uitenbroek and A. Tritschler

Published online: 13 November 2006

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20066286

Planets and planetary systems

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Trojan planets in HD 108874? p. 1165

R. Schwarz, R. Dvorak, E. Pilat Lohinger, Á. Süli and B. Érdi

Published online: 27 November 2006

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20066284

Atomic, molecular, and nuclear data

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Spin depolarizing effect in collisions with neutral hydrogen - II. Application to simple/complex ions in spherically symmetric states p. 1171

M. Derouich and P. S. Barklem

Published online: 21 November 2006

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20066066

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Ro-vibrational excitation of CS by He p. 1179

F. Lique and A. Spielfiedel

Published online: 13 November 2006

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20066422

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Effects of CO₂ on H₂O band profiles and band strengths in mixed H₂O:CO₂ ices p. 1187

K. I. Öberg, H. J. Fraser, A. C. A. Boogert, S. E. Bisschop, G. W. Fuchs, E. F. van Dishoeck and H. Linnartz

Published online: 24 October 2006

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20065881

Astronomy & Astrophysics

Volume 462 / No 3 (February II 2007)

Letters

Lithium-depleted stars in the young Orionis cluster p. L23

Bar-driven mass build-up within the central 50 pc of NGC 6946 p. L27

Carbon monoxide in the solar atmosphere - II. Radiative cooling by CO lines p. L31

Probing the close environment of massive young stars with spectro-astrometry p. L37

Discovery of variable X-ray absorption in the cTTS AA Tauri p. L41

Detection of HNC and tentative detection of CN at z = 3.9 p. L45

Candidate tidal disruption events from the XMM-Newton slew survey p. L49

A highly-collimated SiO jet in the HH212 protostellar outflow p. L53

Extensive multiband study of the X-ray rich GRB 050408 - A likely off-axis event with an intense energy injection p. L57

The widest ultracool binary p. L61

Effect of dark matter annihilation on gas cooling and star formation p. L65

Cosmology (including clusters of galaxies)

Clumpiness of dark matter and the positron annihilation signal p. 827

The ring statistics – how to separate E- and B-modes of cosmic shear correlation functions on a finite interval p. 841

First stars VII - Lithium in extremely metal poor dwarfs p. 851

GaBoDS: the Garching-Bonn deep survey - VIII. Lyman-break galaxies in the ESO deep public survey p. 865

GaBoDS: the Garching-Bonn Deep Survey - IX. A sample of 158 shear-selected mass concentration candidates p. 875

Extragalactic astronomy

Swift XRT and UVOT deep observations of the high-energy peaked BL Lacertae object PKS 0548–322 close to its brightest state p. 889

A new analysis of the MEGA M 31 microlensing events p. 895

Highly-magnified, multiply-imaged radio counterparts of the sub-mm starburst emission in the cluster-lens MS0451.6-0305 p. 903

Long-term monitoring of the X-ray afterglow of GRB 050408 with Swift/XRT p. 913

HI-observations of blue compact dwarf galaxies. II. p. 919

A NICMOS search for obscured supernovae in starburst galaxies p. 927

Magnetic fields and ionized gas in nearby late type galaxies p. 933

Galactic structure, stellar clusters, and populations

Abundance gradients in the Milky Way for α elements, iron peak elements, barium, lanthanum, and europium p. 943

The abundance pattern of O, Mg, Si, and Fe in the intracluster medium of the Centaurus cluster observed with XMM-Newton p. 953

The surface brightness of the Galaxy at the solar neighbourhood p. 965

Interstellar and circumstellar matter

The photophoretic sweeping of dust in transient protoplanetary disks p. 977

Stellar structure and evolution

Towards a pure ZZ Ceti instability strip p. 989

INTEGRAL observation of the accreting pulsar GX 1+4 p. 995

Computation of the Fourier parameters of RR Lyrae stars by template fitting p. 1007

Effects of color superconductivity on the nucleation of quark matter in neutron stars p. 1017

Discovery of δ Scuti pulsation in the Herbig Ae star VV Serpentis p. 1023

Seismic inference of differential rotation in Procyon A p. 1031

Accretion of chemically fractionated material on a wide binary with a blue straggler p. 1039

A method to derive the absolute composition of the Sun, the solar system, and the stars p. 1051

On shear-induced turbulence in rotating stars p. 1063

Chandra X-ray counterpart of KS 1741–293 p. 1065

Determination of the basic parameters of the dwarf nova EY Cygni p. 1069

The Be/X-ray transient 4U 0115+63/V635 Cassiopeiae - III. Quasi-cyclic variability p. 1081

Photometric analysis of the optical counterpart of the black hole HMXB M 33 X-7 p. 1091

Stellar atmospheres

The fraction of DA white dwarfs with kilo-Gauss magnetic fields p. 1097

Pulsation in the atmosphere of the roAp star HD 24712 - I. Spectroscopic observations and radial velocity measurements p. 1103

The Sun

High energy particle transport in stochastic magnetic fields in the solar corona p. 1113

Magnetic properties of flare-CME productive active regions and CME speed p. 1121

Energy leakage as an attenuation mechanism for vertical kink oscillations in solar coronal wave guides p. 1127

The usefulness of analytic response functions p. 1137

Supersonic downflows in the vicinity of a growing pore - Evidence of unresolved magnetic fine structure at chromospheric heights p. 1147

Narrow-band imaging in the CN band at 388.33 nm p. 1157

Planets and planetary systems

Trojan planets in HD 108874? p. 1165

Atomic, molecular, and nuclear data

Spin depolarizing effect in collisions with neutral hydrogen - II. Application to simple/complex ions in spherically symmetric states p. 1171

Ro-vibrational excitation of CS by He p. 1179

Effects of CO2 on H2O band profiles and band strengths in mixed H2O:CO2 ices p. 1187

Effects of CO₂ on H₂O band profiles and band strengths in mixed H₂O:CO₂ ices p. 1187