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Water masers in the Saturnian system p. L1

S. V. Pogrebenko, L. I. Gurvits, M. Elitzur, C. B. Cosmovici, I. M. Avruch, S. Montebugnoli, E. Salerno, S. Pluchino, G. Maccaferri, A. Mujunen et al. (4 more)

Published online: 14 January 2009

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:200811186

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Multi-frequency VLBA study of the blazar S5 0716+714 during the active state in 2004 - I. Inner jet kinematics p. L5

E. A. Rastorgueva, K. Wiik, T. Savolainen, L. O. Takalo, E. Valtaoja, Y. N. Vetukhnovskaya and K. V. Sokolovsky

Published online: 22 December 2008

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:200811425

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Evidence for an anticorrelation between the duration of the shallow decay phase of GRB X-ray afterglows and redshift p. L9

G. Stratta, D. Guetta, V. D'Elia, M. Perri, S. Covino and L. Stella

Published online: 14 January 2009

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:200811335

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Cold gas as an ice diagnostic toward low mass protostars p. L13

K. I. Öberg, S. Bottinelli and E. F. van Dishoeck

Published online: 14 January 2009

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:200811228

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Double mode RR Lyrae stars in Omega Centauri p. L17

A. Olech and P. Moskalik

Published online: 14 January 2009

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:200811441

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The early phase of a H1743-322 outburst observed by INTEGRAL, RXTE, Swift, and XMM/Newton p. L21

L. Prat, J. Rodriguez, M. Cadolle Bel, E. Kuulkers, M. Hanke, J. Tomsick, S. Corbel, M. Coriat, J. Wilms and A. Goldwurm

Published online: 14 January 2009

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:200811393

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The metallicity of the most distant quasars p. L25

Y. Juarez, R. Maiolino, R. Mujica, M. Pedani, S. Marinoni, T. Nagao, A. Marconi and E. Oliva

Published online: 14 January 2009

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:200811415

Cosmology (including clusters of galaxies)

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Double relics in Abell 2345 and Abell 1240 - Spectral index and polarization analysis p. 429

A. Bonafede, G. Giovannini, L. Feretti, F. Govoni and M. Murgia

Published online: 20 November 2008

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:200810588

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The great observatories origins deep survey - VLT/VIMOS spectroscopy in the GOODS-south field p. 443

P. Popesso, M. Dickinson, M. Nonino, E. Vanzella, E. Daddi, R. A. E. Fosbury, H. Kuntschner, V. Mainieri, S. Cristiani, C. Cesarsky et al. (3 more)

Published online: 20 November 2008

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:200809617

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Statistics of gravitational potential perturbations: A novel approach to deriving the X-ray temperature function p. 461

C. Angrick and M. Bartelmann

Published online: 22 December 2008

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:200809562

Extragalactic astronomy

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Physical properties of very powerful FRII radio galaxies p. 471

C. P. O'Dea, R. A. Daly, P. Kharb, K. A. Freeman and S. A. Baum

Published online: 07 October 2008

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:200809416

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Kinematic modeling of disk galaxies - III. The warped “Spindle” NGC 2685 p. 489

G. I. G. Józsa, T. A. Oosterloo, R. Morganti, U. Klein and T. Erben

Published online: 22 December 2008

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:200809372

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AGILE observation of a gamma-ray flare from the blazar 3C 279 p. 509

A. Giuliani, F. D'Ammando, S. Vercellone, V. Vittorini, A. W. Chen, I. Donnarumma, L. Pacciani, G. Pucella, A. Trois, A. Bulgarelli et al. (49 more)

Published online: 27 November 2008

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:200810785

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VLT/FORS1 spectrophotometry of the first planetary nebula discovered in the Phoenix dwarf galaxy p. 515

I. Saviane, K. Exter, Y. Tsamis, C. Gallart and D. Péquignot

Published online: 11 December 2008

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20079280

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Doppler factors, Lorentz factors and viewing angles for quasars, BL Lacertae objects and radio galaxies p. 527

T. Hovatta, E. Valtaoja, M. Tornikoski and A. Lähteenmäki

Published online: 27 November 2008

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:200811150

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The mass function of young star clusters in spiral galaxies p. 539

S. S. Larsen

Published online: 04 December 2008

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:200811212

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The physical properties of Lyα emitting galaxies: not just primeval galaxies? p. 553

L. Pentericci, A. Grazian, A. Fontana, M. Castellano, E. Giallongo, S. Salimbeni and P. Santini

Published online: 04 December 2008

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:200810722

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Cosmic rays and the magnetic field in the nearby starburst galaxy NGC 253 - I. The distribution and transport of cosmic rays p. 563

V. Heesen, R. Beck, M. Krause and R.-J. Dettmar

Published online: 04 December 2008

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:200810543

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A multi-wavelength survey of AGN in the XMM-LSS field - I. Quasar selection via the KX technique p. 579

Th. Nakos, J. P. Willis, S. Andreon, J. Surdej, P. Riaud, E. Hatziminaoglou, O. Garcet, D. Alloin, M. Baes, G. Galaz et al. (9 more)

Published online: 22 December 2008

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:200809584

Galactic structure, stellar clusters, and populations

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Abundances in the Galactic bulge: results from planetary nebulae and giant stars p. 591

C. Chiappini, S. K. Górny, G. Stasińska and B. Barbuy

Published online: 04 December 2008

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:200810849

Interstellar and circumstellar matter

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WSRT Faraday tomography of the Galactic ISM at λ ~ 0.86 m - I. The GEMINI data set at (l, b) = (181°, 20°) p. 611

D. H. F. M. Schnitzeler, P. Katgert and A. G. de Bruyn

Published online: 27 October 2008

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20078912

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Chemical modeling of L183 (L134N): an estimate of the ortho/para H ratio p. 623

L. Pagani, C. Vastel, E. Hugo, V. Kokoouline, C. H. Greene, A. Bacmann, E. Bayet, C. Ceccarelli, R. Peng and S. Schlemmer

Published online: 20 November 2008

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:200810587

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Water and ammonia abundances in S140 with the Odin satellite p. 637

C. M. Persson, M. Olberg, Å. Hjalmarson, M. Spaans, J. H. Black, U. Frisk, T. Liljeström, A. O. H. Olofsson, D. R. Poelman and Aa. Sandqvist

Published online: 20 November 2008

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:200810930

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A spatially resolved study of photoelectric heating and [C II] cooling in the LMC - Comparison with dust emission as seen by SAGE p. 647

D. Rubin, S. Hony, S. C. Madden, A. G. G. M Tielens, M. Meixner, R. Indebetouw, W. Reach, A. Ginsburg, S. Kim, K. Mochizuki et al. (13 more)

Published online: 04 December 2008

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:200810968

Stellar structure and evolution

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Lithium abundances in exoplanet-host stars: modelling p. 663

M. Castro, S. Vauclair, O. Richard and N. C. Santos

Published online: 11 December 2008

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20078928

The Sun

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Generation of highly energetic electrons at reconnection outflow shocks during solar flares p. 669

G. Mann, A. Warmuth and H. Aurass

Published online: 30 October 2008

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:200810099

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Modelling shock drift acceleration of electrons at the reconnection outflow termination shock in solar flares - Observational constraints and parametric study p. 677

A. Warmuth, G. Mann and H. Aurass

Published online: 03 October 2008

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:200810101

Planets and planetary systems

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New BVRI photometry results on Kuiper Belt Objects from the ESO VLT p. 693

P. Santos-Sanz, J. L. Ortiz, L. Barrera and H. Boehnhardt

Published online: 22 December 2008

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20078301

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Investigating the potential of the Pan-Planets project using Monte Carlo simulations p. 707

J. Koppenhoefer, C. Afonso, R. P. Saglia and Th. Henning

Published online: 11 December 2008

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:200810754

Atomic, molecular, and nuclear data

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On the frequency of NH⁺ and ND p. 719

L. Pagani, F. Daniel and M.-L. Dubernet

Published online: 22 December 2008

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:200810570

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Breit-Pauli R-matrix calculation of fine-structure effective collision strengths for the electron impact excitation of Mg V p. 729

C. E. Hudson, C. A. Ramsbottom, P. H. Norrington and M. P. Scott

Published online: 11 December 2008

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:200809788

Astronomical instrumentation

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Automated supervised classification of variable stars - II. Application to the OGLE database p. 739

L. M. Sarro, J. Debosscher, M. López and C. Aerts

Published online: 02 May 2009

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:200809918

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The complementarity of astrometric and radial velocity exoplanet observations - Determining exoplanet mass with astrometric snapshots p. 769

M. Tuomi, S. Kotiranta and M. Kaasalainen

Published online: 11 December 2008

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:200810288

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Modelling the spectral response of the Swift-XRT CCD camera: experience learnt from in-flight calibration p. 775

O. Godet, A. P. Beardmore, A. F. Abbey, J. P. Osborne, G. Cusumano, C. Pagani, M. Capalbi, M. Perri, K. L. Page, D. N. Burrows et al. (4 more)

Published online: 27 November 2008

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:200811157

Catalogs and data

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The construction of the large quasar astrometric catalogue (LQAC) p. 799

J. Souchay, A. H. Andrei, C. Barache, S. Bouquillon, A.-M. Gontier, S. B. Lambert, C. Le Poncin-Lafitte, F. Taris, E. F. Arias, D. Suchet and M. Baudin

Published online: 04 December 2008

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:200809602

Astronomy & Astrophysics

Volume 494 / No 2 (February I 2009)

Letters

Water masers in the Saturnian system p. L1

Multi-frequency VLBA study of the blazar S5 0716+714 during the active state in 2004 - I. Inner jet kinematics p. L5

Evidence for an anticorrelation between the duration of the shallow decay phase of GRB X-ray afterglows and redshift p. L9

Cold gas as an ice diagnostic toward low mass protostars p. L13

Double mode RR Lyrae stars in Omega Centauri p. L17

The early phase of a H1743-322 outburst observed by INTEGRAL, RXTE, Swift, and XMM/Newton p. L21

The metallicity of the most distant quasars p. L25

Cosmology (including clusters of galaxies)

Double relics in Abell 2345 and Abell 1240 - Spectral index and polarization analysis p. 429

The great observatories origins deep survey - VLT/VIMOS spectroscopy in the GOODS-south field p. 443

Statistics of gravitational potential perturbations: A novel approach to deriving the X-ray temperature function p. 461

Extragalactic astronomy

Physical properties of very powerful FRII radio galaxies p. 471

Kinematic modeling of disk galaxies - III. The warped “Spindle” NGC 2685 p. 489

AGILE observation of a gamma-ray flare from the blazar 3C 279 p. 509

VLT/FORS1 spectrophotometry of the first planetary nebula discovered in the Phoenix dwarf galaxy p. 515

Doppler factors, Lorentz factors and viewing angles for quasars, BL Lacertae objects and radio galaxies p. 527

The mass function of young star clusters in spiral galaxies p. 539

The physical properties of Lyα emitting galaxies: not just primeval galaxies? p. 553

Cosmic rays and the magnetic field in the nearby starburst galaxy NGC 253 - I. The distribution and transport of cosmic rays p. 563

A multi-wavelength survey of AGN in the XMM-LSS field - I. Quasar selection via the KX technique p. 579

Galactic structure, stellar clusters, and populations

Abundances in the Galactic bulge: results from planetary nebulae and giant stars p. 591

Interstellar and circumstellar matter

WSRT Faraday tomography of the Galactic ISM at λ ~ 0.86 m - I. The GEMINI data set at (l, b) = (181°, 20°) p. 611

Chemical modeling of L183 (L134N): an estimate of the ortho/para H ratio p. 623

Water and ammonia abundances in S140 with the Odin satellite p. 637

A spatially resolved study of photoelectric heating and [C II] cooling in the LMC - Comparison with dust emission as seen by SAGE p. 647

Stellar structure and evolution

Lithium abundances in exoplanet-host stars: modelling p. 663

The Sun

Generation of highly energetic electrons at reconnection outflow shocks during solar flares p. 669

Modelling shock drift acceleration of electrons at the reconnection outflow termination shock in solar flares - Observational constraints and parametric study p. 677

Planets and planetary systems

New BVRI photometry results on Kuiper Belt Objects from the ESO VLT p. 693

Investigating the potential of the Pan-Planets project using Monte Carlo simulations p. 707

Atomic, molecular, and nuclear data

On the frequency of NH+ and ND p. 719

Breit-Pauli R-matrix calculation of fine-structure effective collision strengths for the electron impact excitation of Mg V p. 729

Astronomical instrumentation

Automated supervised classification of variable stars - II. Application to the OGLE database p. 739

The complementarity of astrometric and radial velocity exoplanet observations - Determining exoplanet mass with astrometric snapshots p. 769

Modelling the spectral response of the Swift-XRT CCD camera: experience learnt from in-flight calibration p. 775

Catalogs and data

The construction of the large quasar astrometric catalogue (LQAC) p. 799

On the frequency of NH⁺ and ND p. 719