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The mixed chemistry phenomenon in Galactic Bulge PNe p. L5

J. V. Perea-Calderón, D. A. García-Hernández, P. García-Lario, R. Szczerba and M. Bobrowsky

Published online: 20 January 2009

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:200811457

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A candidate tidal disruption event in the Galaxy cluster Abell 3571 p. L9

N. Cappelluti, M. Ajello, P. Rebusco, S. Komossa, A. Bongiorno, C. Clemens, M. Salvato, P. Esquej, T. Aldcroft, J. Greiner and H. Quintana

Published online: 09 February 2009

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/200811479

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Discovery of an old photoevaporating disk in σ Orionis p. L13

E. Rigliaco, A. Natta, S. Randich and G. Sacco

Published online: 09 February 2009

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/200811535

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Astrophysical processes

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On geometric distance determination to the Cepheid RS Puppis from its light echoes p. 371

H. E. Bond and W. B. Sparks

Published online: 22 December 2008

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:200810280

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Cosmology (including clusters of galaxies)

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Galaxy evolution in Abell 85 - I. Cluster substructure and environmental effects on the blue galaxy population p. 379

H. Bravo-Alfaro, C. A. Caretta, C. Lobo, F. Durret and T. Scott

Published online: 20 November 2008

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:200810731

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The simulated 21 cm signal during the epoch of reionization: full modeling of the Ly-α pumping p. 389

S. Baek, P. Di Matteo, B. Semelin, F. Combes and Y. Revaz

Published online: 04 December 2008

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:200810757

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On the nature of faint low surface brightness galaxies in the Coma cluster p. 407

C. Adami, R. Pelló, M. P. Ulmer, J. C. Cuillandre, F. Durret, A. Mazure, J. P. Picat and R. Scheidegger

Published online: 14 January 2009

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:200809858

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INTEGRAL observations of the Perseus cluster p. 415

D. Eckert and S. Paltani

Published online: 22 December 2008

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:200811154

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CAIXA: a catalogue of AGN in the XMM-Newton archive - I. Spectral analysis p. 421

S. Bianchi, M. Guainazzi, G. Matt, N. Fonseca Bonilla and G. Ponti

Published online: 22 December 2008

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:200810620

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The VVDS-VLA deep field - IV. Radio-optical properties p. 431

S. Bardelli, E. Zucca, M. Bolzonella, P. Ciliegi, L. Gregorini, G. Zamorani, M. Bondi, A. Zanichelli, L. Tresse, D. Vergani et al. (44 more)

Published online: 04 December 2008

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:200810567

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Emission line objects in NGC 6822. New planetary nebula candidates p. 447

L. Hernández-Martínez and M. Peña

Published online: 11 December 2008

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:200810412

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Stellar population analysis on local infrared-selected galaxies p. 457

X. Y. Chen, Y. C. Liang, F. Hammer, Y. H. Zhao and G. H. Zhong

Published online: 14 January 2009

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:200810629

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Integral field spectroscopy of two radio galaxies at z 2.3 p. 471

S. F. Sánchez and A. Humphrey

Published online: 14 January 2009

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:200811231

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The cluster birthline in M 33 p. 479

E. Corbelli, S. Verley, B. G. Elmegreen and C. Giovanardi

Published online: 14 January 2009

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:200811086

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The population of barred galaxies in the local universe - I. Detection and characterisation of bars p. 491

J. A. L. Aguerri, J. Méndez-Abreu and E. M. Corsini

Published online: 14 January 2009

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:200810931

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HESS observations of γ-ray bursts in 2003–2007 p. 505

F. Aharonian, A. G. Akhperjanian, U. Barres de Almeida, A. R. Bazer-Bachi, B. Behera, W. Benbow, K. Bernlöhr, C. Boisson, A. Bochow, V. Borrel et al. (145 more)

Published online: 14 January 2009

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:200811072

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Interstellar and circumstellar matter

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A sensitivity study of the neutral-neutral reactions C + C and C + C in cold dense interstellar clouds p. 513

V. Wakelam, J.-C. Loison, E. Herbst, D. Talbi, D. Quan and F. Caralp

Published online: 14 January 2009

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:200810967

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VLT/NACO coronagraphic observations of fine structures in the disk of β Pictoris p. 523

A. Boccaletti, J.-C. Augereau, P. Baudoz, E. Pantin and A.-M. Lagrange

Published online: 20 January 2009

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:200811067

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The relation for planetary nebulae p. 537

D. Urošević, B. Vukotić, B. Arbutina, D. Ilić, M. Filipović, I. Bojičić, S. Šegan and S. Vidojević

Published online: 30 January 2009

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/200809494

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Stellar structure and evolution

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The behavior of subluminous X-ray transients near the Galactic center as observed using the X-ray telescope aboard Swift p. 547

N. Degenaar and R. Wijnands

Published online: 14 January 2009

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:200810654

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Post common envelope binaries from SDSS - IV. SDSS J121258.25–012310.1, a new eclipsing system p. 561

A. Nebot Gómez-Morán, A. D. Schwope, M. R. Schreiber, B. T. Gänsicke, S. Pyrzas, R. Schwarz, J. Southworth, J. Kohnert, J. Vogel, M. Krumpe and P. Rodríguez-Gil

Published online: 20 January 2009

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:200811244

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The Sun

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The role of small versus large scale magnetic topologies in global waves p. 571

C. Delannée

Published online: 17 September 2008

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:200809451

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A spectroscopic analysis of the most polarizing atomic lines of the second solar spectrum p. 577

L. Belluzzi and E. Landi Degl'Innocenti

Published online: 07 October 2008

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:200810409

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High-precision density measurements in the solar corona - I. Analysis methods and results for Fe XII and Fe XIII p. 587

P. R. Young, T. Watanabe, H. Hara and J. T. Mariska

Published online: 04 December 2008

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:200810143

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Comparison of transient horizontal magnetic fields in a plage region and in the quiet Sun p. 607

R. Ishikawa and S. Tsuneta

Published online: 14 January 2009

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:200810636

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The solar plasma conditions in the source regions of two explosive events p. 613

J. E. Mendoza-Torres, K. Wilhelm and A. Lara

Published online: 22 December 2008

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20066547

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Photometric properties of resolved and unresolved magnetic elements p. 621

S. Criscuoli and M. P. Rast

Published online: 14 January 2009

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:200810436

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Spatial variation of the pickup-proton-injection rate into the ACR regime at the 3D-heliospheric termination shock p. 631

K. Scherer and H.-J. Fahr

Published online: 14 January 2009

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:200810783

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Planets and planetary systems

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The brightness temperature of Mercury at mm-wavelengths p. 639

A. Greve, C. Thum, R. Moreno and N. Yan

Published online: 22 December 2008

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20077165

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Modelling solar-like variability for the detection of Earth-like planetary transits - II. Performance of the three-spot modelling, harmonic function fitting, iterative nonlinear filtering, and sliding boxcar filtering p. 647

A. S. Bonomo, S. Aigrain, P. Bordé and A. F. Lanza

Published online: 14 January 2009

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:200810726

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Atomic, molecular, and nuclear data

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Ab initio modeling of molecular IR spectra of astrophysical interest: application to CH₄ p. 655

R. Warmbier, R. Schneider, A. R. Sharma, B. J. Braams, J. M. Bowman and P. H. Hauschildt

Published online: 14 January 2009

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:200810983

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Astronomical instrumentation

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Regularization methods used in error analysis of solar particle spectra measured on SOHO/EPHIN p. 663

A. Kharytonov, E. Böhm and R. F. Wimmer-Schweingruber

Published online: 22 December 2008

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:200810854

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Optimization of mapping modes for heterodyne instruments p. 677

V. Ossenkopf

Published online: 14 January 2009

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:200809619

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Catalogs and data

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Roma-BZCAT: a multifrequency catalogue of blazars p. 691

E. Massaro, P. Giommi, C. Leto, P. Marchegiani, A. Maselli, M. Perri, S. Piranomonte and S. Sclavi

Published online: 22 December 2008

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:200810161

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Numerical methods and codes

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Simulating polarized Galactic synchrotron emission at all frequencies - The Hammurabi code p. 697

A. Waelkens, T. Jaffe, M. Reinecke, F. S. Kitaura and T. A. Enßlin

Published online: 14 January 2009

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:200810564

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