Astronomy & Astrophysics (A&A)

Letters

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Hard X-ray flares in IGR J08408–4503 unveil clumpy stellar winds p. L35

J.-C. Leyder, R. Walter, M. Lazos, N. Masetti and N. Produit

Published online: 20 February 2007

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20066317

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Winds of M- and S-type AGB stars: an unorthodox suggestion for the driving mechanism p. L39

S. Höfner and A. C. Andersen

Published online: 27 February 2007

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20066970

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A solar surface dynamo p. L43

A. Vögler and M. Schüssler

Published online: 27 February 2007

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20077253

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Are solar maximum fan streamers a consequence of twisting sheet structures? p. L47

H. Morgan and S. R. Habbal

Published online: 27 February 2007

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20077126

Astrophysical processes

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Analytical solutions for energy spectra of electrons accelerated by nonrelativistic shock-waves in shell type supernova remnants p. 695

V. N. Zirakashvili and F. Aharonian

Published online: 22 January 2007

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20066494

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Very high energy γ-ray emission from X-ray transients during major outbursts p. 703

M. Orellana, G. E. Romero, L. J. Pellizza and S. Vidrih

Published online: 22 January 2007

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20066238

Cosmology (including clusters of galaxies)

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The VIMOS-VLT deep survey - Color bimodality and the mix of galaxy populations up to z ~ 2 p. 711

P. Franzetti, M. Scodeggio, B. Garilli, D. Vergani, D. Maccagni, L. Guzzo, L. Tresse, O. Ilbert, F. Lamareille, T. Contini et al. (33 more)

Published online: 22 January 2007

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20065942

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Large-N expansions applied to gravitational clustering p. 725

P. Valageas

Published online: 05 February 2007

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20066832

Extragalactic astronomy

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The gaseous atmosphere of M 87 seen with XMM-Newton p. 749

A. Simionescu, H. Böhringer, M. Brüggen and A. Finoguenov

Published online: 22 January 2007

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20066650

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Searching for absorbed AGN in the 2XMM-Newton pre-release EPIC Serendipitous Source Catalogue p. 759

E. Memola, A. Caccianiga, F. Cocchia, R. Della Ceca, T. Maccacaro, P. Severgnini, D. J. Fyfe, S. Mateos, M. G. Watson and G. Lamer

Published online: 29 January 2007

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20066571

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On the temporal variability classes found in long gamma-ray bursts with known redshift p. 765

L. Borgonovo, F. Frontera, C. Guidorzi, E. Montanari, L. Vetere and P. Soffitta

Published online: 05 February 2007

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20066613

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The search for inner polar disks with integral field spectroscopy: the case of NGC 2855 and NGC 7049 p. 777

L. Coccato, E. M. Corsini, A. Pizzella and F. Bertola

Published online: 05 February 2007

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20066214

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Extended, regular structures around early-type galaxies p. 787

T. A. Oosterloo, R. Morganti, E. M. Sadler, T. van der Hulst and P. Serra

Published online: 22 January 2007

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20066384

Galactic structure, stellar clusters, and populations

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Oxygen, sodium, magnesium, and aluminium as tracers of the galactic bulge formation p. 799

A. Lecureur, V. Hill, M. Zoccali, B. Barbuy, A. Gómez, D. Minniti, S. Ortolani and A. Renzini

Published online: 02 January 2007

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20066036

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The exotic chemical composition of the Sagittarius dwarf spheroidal galaxy p. 815

L. Sbordone, P. Bonifacio, R. Buonanno, G. Marconi, L. Monaco and S. Zaggia

Published online: 22 January 2007

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20066385

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Tracing the long bar with red-clump giants p. 825

A. Cabrera-Lavers, P. L. Hammersley, C. González-Fernández, M. López-Corredoira, F. Garzón and T. J. Mahoney

Published online: 29 January 2007

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20066185

Interstellar and circumstellar matter

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A broadband study of galactic dust emission p. 839

R. Paladini, L. Montier, M. Giard, J. P. Bernard, T. M. Dame, S. Ito and J. F. Macias-Perez

Published online: 22 January 2007

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20065835

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On the circum(sub)stellar environment of brown dwarfs in Taurus p. 855

S. Guieu, C. Pinte, J.-L. Monin, F. Ménard, M. Fukagawa, D. L. Padgett, A. Noriega-Crespo, S. J. Carey, L. M. Rebull, T. Huard and M. Guedel

Published online: 22 January 2007

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20066140

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A survey of OH masers towards high mass protostellar objects p. 865

K. A. Edris, G. A. Fuller and R. J. Cohen

Published online: 02 January 2007

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20066280

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High resolution simulations of a variable HH jet p. 879

A. C. Raga, F. De Colle, P. Kajdič, A. Esquivel and J. Cantó

Published online: 22 January 2007

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20066625

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The interaction of young massive stars with their environment - A millimeter and submillimeter line study of NGC 6334 FIR II p. 887

J. S. Zhang, C. Henkel, R. Mauersberger, Y.-N. Chin, K. M. Menten, A. R. Tieftrunk and A. Belloche

Published online: 05 February 2007

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20065931

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Linear and circular polarisation of diffuse interstellar bands p. 899

N. L. J. Cox, N. Boudin, B. H. Foing, R. S. Schnerr, L. Kaper, C. Neiner, H. Henrichs, J.-F. Donati and P. Ehrenfreund

Published online: 05 February 2007

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20065278

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Discovery of a new faint radio SNR G108.2-0.6 p. 907

W. W. Tian, D. A. Leahy and T. J. Foster

Published online: 05 February 2007

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20066935

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Testing grain-surface chemistry in massive hot-core regions p. 913

S. E. Bisschop, J. K. Jørgensen, E. F. van Dishoeck and E. B. M. de Wachter

Published online: 05 February 2007

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20065963

Stellar structure and evolution

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Formation of a massive protostar through disk accretion - II. SINFONI integral field spectroscopy of the M 17 silhouette disk and discovery of the associated H₂ jet p. 931

D. E. A. Nürnberger, R. Chini, F. Eisenhauer, M. Kissler-Patig, A. Modigliani, R. Siebenmorgen, M. F. Sterzik and T. Szeifert

Published online: 29 January 2007

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20065634

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Nonradial oscillations in classical Cepheids: the problem revisited p. 937

C. Mulet-Marquis, W. Glatzel, I. Baraffe and C. Winisdoerffer

Published online: 05 February 2007

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20066757

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Physical parameters and multiplicity of five southern close eclipsing binaries p. 943

T. Szalai, L. L. Kiss, Sz. Mészáros, J. Vinkó and Sz. Csizmadia

Published online: 05 February 2007

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20066768

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Six new candidate ultracompact X-ray binaries p. 953

J. J. M. in 't Zand, P. G. Jonker and C. B. Markwardt

Published online: 22 January 2007

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20066678

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Oscillating blue stragglers, γ Doradus stars and eclipsing binaries in the open cluster NGC 2506 p. 965

T. Arentoft, J. De Ridder, F. Grundahl, L. Glowienka, C. Waelkens, M.-A. Dupret, A. Grigahcène, K. Lefever, H. R. Jensen, M. Reyniers et al. (2 more)

Published online: 05 February 2007

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20066931

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A model for double notches and bifurcated components in radio profiles of pulsars and magnetars - Evidence for the parallel acceleration maser in pulsar magnetosphere p. 981

J. Dyks, B. Rudak and Joanna M. Rankin

Published online: 05 February 2007

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20066657

Stellar atmospheres

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Spectral atlas of massive stars around 10 830 Å p. 993

J. H. Groh, A. Damineli and F. Jablonski

Published online: 22 January 2007

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20066401

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The VLT-FLAMES survey of massive stars: wind properties and evolution of hot massive stars in the Large Magellanic Cloud p. 1003

M. R. Mokiem, A. de Koter, C. J. Evans, J. Puls, S. J. Smartt, P. A. Crowther, A. Herrero, N. Langer, D. J. Lennon, F. Najarro et al. (2 more)

Published online: 29 January 2007

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20066489

The Sun

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Investigation of long-duration arcade flares - I. Morphology and physical parameters p. 1021

S. Kołomański

Published online: 12 February 2007

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20065421

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Investigation of long-duration arcade flares - II. Energy release p. 1035

S. Kołomański

Published online: 22 January 2007

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20065424

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Radiative transfer in cylindrical threads with incident radiation - IV. Time-dependent and thermal equilibrium models p. 1041

P. Gouttebroze

Published online: 05 February 2007

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20066636

Planets and planetary systems

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Formation of Titan in Saturn's subnebula: constraints from Huygens probe measurements p. 1051

Y. Alibert and O. Mousis

Published online: 22 January 2007

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20066402

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Behavior of Comet 9P/Tempel 1 around the Deep Impact event p. 1061

L. M. Lara, H. Boehnhardt, R. Gredel, P. J. Gutiérrez, R. Rodrigo and M. J. Vidal-Nuñez

Published online: 29 January 2007

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20065534

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The “666” collaboration on OGLE transits - I. Accurate radius of the planets OGLE-TR-10b and OGLE-TR-56b with VLT deconvolution photometry p. 1069

F. Pont, C. Moutou, M. Gillon, A. Udalski, F. Bouchy, J. M. Fernandes, W. Gieren, M. Mayor, T. Mazeh, D. Minniti et al. (7 more)

Published online: 05 February 2007

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20066645

Celestial mechanics and astrometry

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First numerical ephemerides of the Martian moons p. 1075

V. Lainey, V. Dehant and M. Pätzold

Published online: 29 January 2007

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20065466

Atomic, molecular, and nuclear data

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Study of the K-H quasi-molecular line satellite in the potassium resonance line p. 1085

N. F. Allard, F. Spiegelman and J. F. Kielkopf

Published online: 22 January 2007

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20066616

Astronomical instrumentation

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Proposal for a temporal version of a hypertelescope p. 1093

F. Reynaud and L. Delage

Published online: 22 January 2007

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20065666

Online catalogs and data

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New spectroscopic redshifts from the CDFS and a test of the cosmological relevance of the GOODS-South field p. 1099

C. D. Ravikumar, M. Puech, H. Flores, D. Proust, F. Hammer, M. Lehnert, A. Rawat, P. Amram, C. Balkowski, D. Burgarella et al. (16 more)

Published online: 22 January 2007

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20065358

Astronomy & Astrophysics

Volume 465 / No 3 (April III 2007)

Letters

Hard X-ray flares in IGR J08408–4503 unveil clumpy stellar winds p. L35

Winds of M- and S-type AGB stars: an unorthodox suggestion for the driving mechanism p. L39

A solar surface dynamo p. L43

Are solar maximum fan streamers a consequence of twisting sheet structures? p. L47

Astrophysical processes

Analytical solutions for energy spectra of electrons accelerated by nonrelativistic shock-waves in shell type supernova remnants p. 695

Very high energy γ-ray emission from X-ray transients during major outbursts p. 703

Cosmology (including clusters of galaxies)

The VIMOS-VLT deep survey - Color bimodality and the mix of galaxy populations up to z ~ 2 p. 711

Large-N expansions applied to gravitational clustering p. 725

Extragalactic astronomy

The gaseous atmosphere of M 87 seen with XMM-Newton p. 749

Searching for absorbed AGN in the 2XMM-Newton pre-release EPIC Serendipitous Source Catalogue p. 759

On the temporal variability classes found in long gamma-ray bursts with known redshift p. 765

The search for inner polar disks with integral field spectroscopy: the case of NGC 2855 and NGC 7049 p. 777

Extended, regular structures around early-type galaxies p. 787

Galactic structure, stellar clusters, and populations

Oxygen, sodium, magnesium, and aluminium as tracers of the galactic bulge formation p. 799

The exotic chemical composition of the Sagittarius dwarf spheroidal galaxy p. 815

Tracing the long bar with red-clump giants p. 825

Interstellar and circumstellar matter

A broadband study of galactic dust emission p. 839

On the circum(sub)stellar environment of brown dwarfs in Taurus p. 855

A survey of OH masers towards high mass protostellar objects p. 865

High resolution simulations of a variable HH jet p. 879

The interaction of young massive stars with their environment - A millimeter and submillimeter line study of NGC 6334 FIR II p. 887

Linear and circular polarisation of diffuse interstellar bands p. 899

Discovery of a new faint radio SNR G108.2-0.6 p. 907

Testing grain-surface chemistry in massive hot-core regions p. 913

Stellar structure and evolution

Formation of a massive protostar through disk accretion - II. SINFONI integral field spectroscopy of the M 17 silhouette disk and discovery of the associated H2 jet p. 931

Nonradial oscillations in classical Cepheids: the problem revisited p. 937

Physical parameters and multiplicity of five southern close eclipsing binaries p. 943

Six new candidate ultracompact X-ray binaries p. 953

Oscillating blue stragglers, γ Doradus stars and eclipsing binaries in the open cluster NGC 2506 p. 965

A model for double notches and bifurcated components in radio profiles of pulsars and magnetars - Evidence for the parallel acceleration maser in pulsar magnetosphere p. 981

Stellar atmospheres

Spectral atlas of massive stars around 10 830 Å p. 993

The VLT-FLAMES survey of massive stars: wind properties and evolution of hot massive stars in the Large Magellanic Cloud p. 1003

The Sun

Investigation of long-duration arcade flares - I. Morphology and physical parameters p. 1021

Investigation of long-duration arcade flares - II. Energy release p. 1035

Radiative transfer in cylindrical threads with incident radiation - IV. Time-dependent and thermal equilibrium models p. 1041

Planets and planetary systems

Formation of Titan in Saturn's subnebula: constraints from Huygens probe measurements p. 1051

Behavior of Comet 9P/Tempel 1 around the Deep Impact event p. 1061

The “666” collaboration on OGLE transits - I. Accurate radius of the planets OGLE-TR-10b and OGLE-TR-56b with VLT deconvolution photometry p. 1069

Celestial mechanics and astrometry

First numerical ephemerides of the Martian moons p. 1075

Atomic, molecular, and nuclear data

Study of the K-H quasi-molecular line satellite in the potassium resonance line p. 1085

Astronomical instrumentation

Proposal for a temporal version of a hypertelescope p. 1093

Online catalogs and data

New spectroscopic redshifts from the CDFS and a test of the cosmological relevance of the GOODS-South field p. 1099

Formation of a massive protostar through disk accretion - II. SINFONI integral field spectroscopy of the M 17 silhouette disk and discovery of the associated H₂ jet p. 931