L. Sbordone, P. Bonifacio, E. Caffau, H.-G. Ludwig, N. T. Behara, J. I. González Hernández, M. Steffen, R. Cayrel, B. Freytag, C. Van’t Veer et al. (9 more)

Published online: 28 October 2010

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/200913282

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Black holes and galactic density cusps - Spherically symmetric anisotropic cusps A28

M. Le Delliou, R. N. Henriksen and J. D. MacMillan

Published online: 28 October 2010

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/200913648

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Apparent high metallicity in 3–4 keV galaxy clusters: the inverse iron-bias in action in the case of the merging cluster Abell 2028 A34

F. Gastaldello, S. Ettori, I. Balestra, F. Brighenti, D. A. Buote, S. De Grandi, S. Ghizzardi, M. Gitti and P. Tozzi

Published online: 28 October 2010

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201014279

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Galaxy protocluster candidates at 1.6 < z ≲ 2 A58

A. Galametz, J. Vernet, C. De Breuck, N. A. Hatch, G. K. Miley, T. Kodama, J. Kurk, R. A. Overzier, A. Rettura, H. J. A. Röttgering et al. (3 more)

Published online: 03 November 2010

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Foregrounds for observations of the cosmological 21 cm line - II. Westerbork observations of the fields around 3C 196 and the North Celestial Pole A67

G. Bernardi, A. G. de Bruyn, G. Harker, M. A. Brentjens, B. Ciardi, V. Jelić, L. V. E. Koopmans, P. Labropoulos, A. Offringa, V. N. Pandey et al. (4 more)

Published online: 04 November 2010

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/200913420

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The Sloan great wall. Rich clusters A92

M. Einasto, E. Tago, E. Saar, P. Nurmi, I. Enkvist, P. Einasto, P. Heinämäki, L. J. Liivamägi, E. Tempel, J. Einasto et al. (3 more)

Published online: 05 November 2010

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201015165

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A detailed view of filaments and sheets in the warm-hot intergalactic medium - I. Pancake formation A114

J. S. Klar and J. P. Mücket

Published online: 09 November 2010

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201014040

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Small-scale dynamo action during the formation of the first stars and galaxies - I. The ideal MHD limit A115

D. R. G. Schleicher, R. Banerjee, S. Sur, T. G. Arshakian, R. S. Klessen, R. Beck and M. Spaans

Published online: 09 November 2010

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201015184

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Molecular and atomic gas in the Local Group galaxy M 33 A3

P. Gratier, J. Braine, N. J. Rodriguez-Fernandez, K. F. Schuster, C. Kramer, E. M. Xilouris, F. S. Tabatabaei, C. Henkel, E. Corbelli, F. Israel et al. (15 more)

Published online: 26 October 2010

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A kinematic study of the compact jet in quasar B3 1633+382 A5

Y. Liu, D. R. Jiang, Z.-Q. Shen and M. Karouzos

Published online: 26 October 2010

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201014113

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PMAS optical integral field spectroscopy of luminous infrared galaxies - II. Spatially resolved stellar populations and excitation conditions, A7

A. Alonso-Herrero, M. García-Marín, J. Rodríguez Zaurín, A. Monreal-Ibero, L. Colina and S. Arribas

Published online: 26 October 2010

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201014746

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Optically faint X-ray sources in the Chandra deep field North: Spitzer constraints A11

E. Rovilos, I. Georgantopoulos, A. Akylas and S. Fotopoulou

Published online: 27 October 2010

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Constraining extragalactic background light from TeV blazars A12

J. Yang and J. Wang

Published online: 27 October 2010

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Simultaneous polarization monitoring of supernovae SN 2008D/XT 080109 and SN 2007uy: isolating geometry from dust A14

J. Gorosabel, A. de Ugarte Postigo, A. J. Castro-Tirado, I. Agudo, M. Jelínek, S. Leon, T. Augusteijn, J. P. U. Fynbo, J. Hjorth, M. J. Michałowski et al. (9 more)

Published online: 27 October 2010

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/200913263

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Stellar mass and velocity functions of galaxies - Backward evolution and the fate of Milky Way siblings A18

S. Boissier, V. Buat and O. Ilbert

Published online: 27 October 2010

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/200913746

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The afterglow and host galaxy of GRB 090205: evidence of a Ly-α emitter at z = 4.65 A20

P. D’Avanzo, M. Perri, D. Fugazza, R. Salvaterra, G. Chincarini, R. Margutti, X. F. Wu, C. C. Thöne, A. Fernández-Soto, T. N. Ukwatta et al. (10 more)

Published online: 27 October 2010

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The impact of X-rays on molecular cloud fragmentation and the inital mass function A24

S. Hocuk and M. Spaans

Published online: 28 October 2010

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201015055

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Environmental dependence of local luminous infrared galaxies A33

H. S. Hwang, D. Elbaz, J. C. Lee, W.-S. Jeong, C. Park, M. G. Lee and H. M. Lee

Published online: 28 October 2010

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201014807

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Line profile and continuum variability in the very broad-line Seyfert galaxy Mrk 926 A36

W. Kollatschny and M. Zetzl

Published online: 28 October 2010

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/200913463

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XMM-Newton observations of the hot spot galaxy NGC 2903 A53

D. Pérez-Ramírez, M. D. Caballero-García, J. Ebrero and S. Leon

Published online: 01 November 2010

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201015812

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¹³CO 1–0 imaging of the Medusa merger, NGC 4194 - Large scale variations in molecular cloud properties A59

S. Aalto, R. Beswick and E. Jütte

Published online: 03 November 2010

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/200913511

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3D MHD simulations of magnetic field evolution and radio polarization of barred galaxies A61

B. Kulesza-Żydzik, K. Kulpa-Dybeł, K. Otmianowska-Mazur, M. Soida and M. Urbanik

Published online: 03 November 2010

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201015036

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A large ¹²C/¹³C isotopic ratio in M 82 and NGC 253 A62

S. Martín, R. Aladro, J. Martín-Pintado and R. Mauersberger

Published online: 03 November 2010

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201014972

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The broad-band X-ray spectrum of the Seyfert 1 galaxy, MCG+8-11-11 A64

S. Bianchi, I. De Angelis, G. Matt, V. La Parola, A. De Rosa, P. Grandi, E. Jiménez Bailón and E. Piconcelli

Published online: 03 November 2010

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201015207

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The multifrequency campaign on 3C 279 in January 2006 A66

W. Collmar, M. Böttcher, T. P. Krichbaum, I. Agudo, E. Bottacini, M. Bremer, V. Burwitz, A. Cuccchiara, D. Grupe and M. Gurwell

Published online: 04 November 2010

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201014823

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Accretion and nuclear activity in Virgo early-type galaxies A89

S. Vattakunnel, E. Trussoni, A. Capetti and R. D. Baldi

Published online: 05 November 2010

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201014611

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COSMOGRAIL: the COSmological MOnitoring of GRAvItational Lenses - VIII. Deconvolution of high resolution near-IR images and simple mass models for 7 gravitationally lensed quasars A95

V. Chantry, D. Sluse and P. Magain

Published online: 05 November 2010

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/200912971

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Gamma rays from cloud penetration at the base of AGN jets A97

A. T. Araudo, V. Bosch-Ramon and G. E. Romero

Published online: 08 November 2010

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201014660

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Rotation measures of radio sources in hot galaxy clusters A105

F. Govoni, K. Dolag, M. Murgia, L. Feretti, S. Schindler, G. Giovannini, W. Boschin, V. Vacca and A. Bonafede

Published online: 09 November 2010

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/200913665

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AGILE detection of intense γ-ray activity from the blazar PKS 0537–441 in October 2008 A109

G. Pucella, F. D’Ammando, P. Romano, A. Treves, E. Pian, S. Vercellone, V. Vittorini, G. Piano, D. Impiombato, D. Fugazza et al. (56 more)

Published online: 09 November 2010

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201014953

Galactic structure, stellar clusters and populations

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Equivalence of Boltzmann and moment equations A30

R. Cubarsi

Published online: 28 October 2010

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201014766

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Quantifying the uncertainties of chemical evolution studies - II. Stellar yields A32

D. Romano, A. I. Karakas, M. Tosi and F. Matteucci

Published online: 28 October 2010

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201014483

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Modeling the ionizing spectra of H II regions: individual stars versus stellar ensembles A49

M. Villaverde, M. Cerviño and V. Luridiana

Published online: 01 November 2010

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/200912993

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An X-ray study of the SNR G344.7-0.1 and the central object CXOU J170357.8-414302 A50

J. A. Combi, J. F. Albacete Colombo, J. López-Santiago, G. E. Romero, E. Sánchez-Ayaso, J. Martí, P. L. Luque-Escamilla, P. G. Pérez-González, A. J. Muñoz-Arjonilla and J. R. Sánchez-Sutil

Published online: 01 November 2010

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/200913735

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Radioactive ²⁶Al from the Scorpius-Centaurus association A51

R. Diehl, M. G. Lang, P. Martin, H. Ohlendorf, Th. Preibisch, R. Voss, P. Jean, J.-P. Roques, P. von Ballmoos and W. Wang

Published online: 01 November 2010

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201014302

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Search for extratidal features around 17 globular clusters in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey A71

K. Jordi and E. K. Grebel

Published online: 04 November 2010

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201014392

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Constraining the regular Galactic magnetic field with the 5-year WMAP polarization measurements at 22 GHz A73

B. Ruiz-Granados, J. A. Rubiño-Martín and E. Battaner

Published online: 04 November 2010

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/200912733

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The connection between missing AGB stars and extended horizontal branches A77

R. G. Gratton, V. D’Orazi, A. Bragaglia, E. Carretta and S. Lucatello

Published online: 04 November 2010

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201015405

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The ultracool-field dwarf luminosity-function and space density from the Canada-France Brown Dwarf Survey A112

C. Reylé, P. Delorme, C. J. Willott, L. Albert, X. Delfosse, T. Forveille, E. Artigau, L. Malo, G. J. Hill and R. Doyon

Published online: 09 November 2010

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/200913234

Interstellar and circumstellar matter

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Searching for the sub-stellar companions in the LkCa15 proto-planetary disk A2

M. Bonavita, G. Chauvin, A. Boccaletti, V. Pietu, P. Baudoz, J. L. Beuzit, A. Dutrey, S. Guilloteau, A. M. Lagrange, D. Mouillet and G. Niccolini

Published online: 26 October 2010

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/200913292

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Spectral energy distributions of 6.7 GHz methanol masers A8

J. D. Pandian, E. Momjian, Y. Xu, K. M. Menten and P. F. Goldsmith

Published online: 26 October 2010

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201014937

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Mid-infrared interferometry of massive young stellar objects - II. Evidence for a circumstellar disk surrounding the Kleinmann-Wright object A17

R. Follert, H. Linz, B. Stecklum, R. van Boekel, Th. Henning, M. Feldt, T. M. Herbst and Ch. Leinert

Published online: 27 October 2010

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/200811557

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Ground-state ammonia and water in absorption towards Sgr B2 A19

E. S. Wirström, P. Bergman, J. H. Black, Å. Hjalmarson, B. Larsson, A. O. H. Olofsson, P. J. Encrenaz, E. Falgarone, U. Frisk, M. Olberg and Aa. Sandqvist

Published online: 27 October 2010

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/200913766

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Tracing early evolutionary stages of high-mass star formation with molecular lines A40

M. G. Marseille, F. F. S. van der Tak, F. Herpin and T. Jacq

Published online: 29 October 2010

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/200913557

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Chemistry in disks - IV. Benchmarking gas-grain chemical models with surface reactions A42

D. Semenov, F. Hersant, V. Wakelam, A. Dutrey, E. Chapillon, St. Guilloteau, Th. Henning, R. Launhardt, V. Piétu and K. Schreyer

Published online: 29 October 2010

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201015149

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The near-infrared reflected spectrum of source I in Orion-KL A44

L. Testi, J. C. Tan and F. Palla

Published online: 29 October 2010

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201014497

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Photopolarimetric study of the star-forming clouds CB3, CB25, and CB39 A45

A. K. Sen, V. F. Polcaro, I. Dey and R. Gupta

Published online: 29 October 2010

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201014875

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Radiative transfer modeling of the dust disk of the Herbig Be star R Monocerotis A46

K. Murakawa

Published online: 29 October 2010

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/200811530

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Strong accretion on a deuterium-burning brown dwarf A47

F. Comerón, L. Testi and A. Natta

Published online: 29 October 2010

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On the observability of T Tauri accretion shocks in the X-ray band A55

G. G. Sacco, S. Orlando, C. Argiroffi, A. Maggio, G. Peres, F. Reale and R. L. Curran

Published online: 01 November 2010

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201014950

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Water formation on bare grains: When the chemistry on dust impacts interstellar gas A74

S. Cazaux, V. Cobut, M. Marseille, M. Spaans and P. Caselli

Published online: 04 November 2010

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201014026

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The circumstellar environment of the YSO TMR-1 and a revisit to the candidate very low-mass object TMR-1C A78

M. G. Petr-Gotzens, J.-G. Cuby, M. D. Smith and M. F. Sterzik

Published online: 04 November 2010

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/200912573

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The extinction law for molecular clouds - Case study of B 335 A84

S. Olofsson and G. Olofsson

Published online: 05 November 2010

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201014174

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A molecular survey of outflow gas: velocity-dependent shock chemistry and the peculiar composition of the EHV gas A91

M. Tafalla, J. Santiago-García, A. Hacar and R. Bachiller

Published online: 05 November 2010

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201015158

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Modeling the Hα line emission around classical T Tauri stars using magnetospheric accretion and disk wind models A104

G. H. R. A. Lima, S. H. P. Alencar, N. Calvet, L. Hartmann and J. Muzerolle

Published online: 09 November 2010

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201014490

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Star formation in Cometary Globule 1: the second generation A106

L. K. Haikala, M. M. Mäkelä and P. Väisänen

Published online: 09 November 2010

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201014524

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New results on thermal and photodesorption of CO ice using the novel InterStellar Astrochemistry Chamber (ISAC) A108

G. M. Muñoz Caro, A. Jiménez-Escobar, J. Á. Martín-Gago, C. Rogero, C. Atienza, S. Puertas, J. M. Sobrado and J. Torres-Redondo

Published online: 09 November 2010

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/200912462

Stellar structure and evolution

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Asteroseismology of red giants from the first four months of Kepler data: Fundamental stellar parameters A1

T. Kallinger, B. Mosser, S. Hekker, D. Huber, D. Stello, S. Mathur, S. Basu, T. R. Bedding, W. J. Chaplin, J. De Ridder et al. (11 more)

Published online: 26 October 2010

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201015263

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Thermohaline instability and rotation-induced mixing - I. Low- and intermediate-mass solar metallicity stars up to the end of the AGB A10

C. Charbonnel and N. Lagarde

Published online: 27 October 2010

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201014432

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Internal heating of old neutron stars: contrasting different mechanisms A16

D. Gonzalez and A. Reisenegger

Published online: 27 October 2010

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201015084

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Electron fraction constraints based on nuclear statistical equilibrium with beta equilibrium A25

A. Arcones, G. Martínez-Pinedo, L. F. Roberts and S. E. Woosley

Published online: 28 October 2010

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201014276

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MML 53: a new low-mass, pre-main sequence eclipsing binary in the Upper Centaurus-Lupus region discovered by SuperWASP A37

L. Hebb, H. C. Stempels, S. Aigrain, A. Collier-Cameron, S. T. Hodgkin, J. M. Irwin, P. F. L. Maxted, D. Pollacco, R. A. Street, D. M. Wilson and K. G. Stassun

Published online: 28 October 2010

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201014059

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Constraints on rotational mixing from surface evolution of light elements in massive stars A39

U. Frischknecht, R. Hirschi, G. Meynet, S. Ekström, C. Georgy, T. Rauscher, C. Winteler and F.-K. Thielemann

Published online: 29 October 2010

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201014340

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Photometric variability of the Be star CoRoT-ID 102761769 A43

M. Emilio, L. Andrade, E. Janot-Pacheco, A. Baglin, J. Gutiérrez-Soto, J. C. Suárez, B. de Batz, P. Diago, J. Fabregat, M. Floquet et al. (9 more)

Published online: 29 October 2010

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A few days before the end of the 2008 extreme outburst of EX Lupi: accretion shocks and a smothered stellar corona unveiled by XMM-Newton A56

N. Grosso, K. Hamaguchi, J. H. Kastner, M. W. Richmond and D. A. Weintraub

Published online: 03 November 2010

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/200913850

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V4332 Sagittarii: a circumstellar disc obscuring the main object A75

T. Kamiński, M. Schmidt and R. Tylenda

Published online: 04 November 2010

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201014406

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The impact of an updated ¹⁴N(p, γ)¹⁵O reaction rate on advanced evolutionary stages of low-mass stellar models A76

A. Pietrinferni, S. Cassisi and M. Salaris

Published online: 04 November 2010

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201015065

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Merging in the common envelope and the origin of early R-type stars A80

L. Piersanti, R. M. Cabezón, O. Zamora, I. Domínguez, D. García-Senz, C. Abia and O. Straniero

Published online: 04 November 2010

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201014046

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On detectability of Zeeman broadening in optical spectra of F- and G-dwarfs A81

R. I. Anderson, A. Reiners and S. K. Solanki

Published online: 04 November 2010

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201014769

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Multiplicity of late-type B stars with HgMn peculiarity A85

M. Schöller, S. Correia, S. Hubrig and N. Ageorges

Published online: 05 November 2010

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201014246

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A systematic analysis of the broad iron Kα line in neutron-star LMXBs with XMM-Newton A96

C. Ng, M. Díaz Trigo, M. Cadolle Bel and S. Migliari

Published online: 05 November 2010

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/200913575

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The 2009 outburst of H 1743-322 as observed by RXTE A99

Y. P. Chen, S. Zhang, D. F. Torres, J. M. Wang, J. Li, T. P. Li and J. L. Qu

Published online: 08 November 2010

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201014017

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The optical counterpart to IGR J06074+2205: a Be/X-ray binary showing disc loss and V/R variability A107

P. Reig, A. Zezas and L. Gkouvelis

Published online: 09 November 2010

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201014788

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Photometric variability of the Herbig Ae star HD 37806 A113

S. M. Rucinski, K. Zwintz, M. Hareter, G. Pojmański, R. Kuschnig, J. M. Matthews, D. B. Guenther, A. F. J. Moffat, D. Sasselov and W. W. Weiss

Published online: 09 November 2010

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201014856

Stellar atmospheres

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Chromium: NLTE abundances in metal-poor stars and nucleosynthesis in the Galaxy A9

M. Bergemann and G. Cescutti

Published online: 26 October 2010

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201014250

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Mode identification from monochromatic amplitude and phase variations for the rapidly pulsating subdwarf B star EC 20338−1925 A48

S. K. Randall, G. Fontaine, P. Brassard and V. Van Grootel

Published online: 01 November 2010

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201014780

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Zeeman component decomposition for recovering common profiles and magnetic fields A57

C. Sennhauser and S. V. Berdyugina

Published online: 03 November 2010

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201014971

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uvby–β photometry of solar twins - The solar colors, model atmospheres, and the T_eff and metallicity scales A98

J. Meléndez, W. J. Schuster, J. S. Silva, I. Ramírez, L. Casagrande and P. Coelho

Published online: 08 November 2010

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201014741

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Radiative properties of highly magnetized isolated neutron star surfaces and approximate treatment of absorption features in their spectra A111

V. Suleimanov, V. Hambaryan, A. Y. Potekhin, M. van Adelsberg, R. Neuhäuser and K. Werner

Published online: 09 November 2010

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/200913641

The Sun

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The centenary variations in the solar corona shape in accordance with the observations during the minimal activity epoch A27

A. G. Tlatov

Published online: 28 October 2010

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201014082

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Acoustic waves in the solar atmosphere at high spatial resolution - II. Measurement in the Fe i 5434 Å line A31

N. Bello González, M. Flores Soriano, F. Kneer, O. Okunev and N. Shchukina

Published online: 28 October 2010

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201014052

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Spectral line polarization with angle-dependent partial frequency redistribution - I. A Stokes parameters decomposition for Rayleigh scattering A41

H. Frisch

Published online: 29 October 2010

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201015167

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Observational constraints on well-posed reconstruction methods and the optimization-Grad-Rubin method A52

T. Amari and J.-J. Aly

Published online: 01 November 2010

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/200913058

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Toward understanding the early stages of an impulsively accelerated coronal mass ejection - SECCHI observations A100

S. Patsourakos, A. Vourlidas and B. Kliem

Published online: 08 November 2010

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/200913599

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Retrieval of solar magnetic fields from high-spatial resolution filtergraph data: the Imaging Magnetograph eXperiment (IMaX) A101

D. Orozco Suárez, L. R. Bellot Rubio, V. Martínez Pillet, J. A. Bonet, S. Vargas Domínguez and J. C. del Toro Iniesta

Published online: 08 November 2010

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201014217

Planets and planetary systems

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Characterisation of extrasolar planetary transit candidates - II. The companions to late M-type stars A4

J. Gallardo, S. Silva, S. Ramírez Alegría, D. Minniti and P. Pietrukowicz

Published online: 26 October 2010

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/200913781

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Observational detection of eclipses of J5 Amalthea by the Galilean satellites A6

A. A. Christou, F. Lewis, P. Roche, M. G. Hidas and T. M. Brown

Published online: 26 October 2010

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201014822

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A magnetic field evolution scenario for brown dwarfs and giant planets A13

A. Reiners and U. R. Christensen

Published online: 27 October 2010

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201014251

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Is Gliese 581d habitable? Some constraints from radiative-convective climate modeling A22

R. D. Wordsworth, F. Forget, F. Selsis, J.-B. Madeleine, E. Millour and V. Eymet

Published online: 28 October 2010

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201015053

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The extrasolar planet Gliese 581d: a potentially habitable planet? A23

P. von Paris, S. Gebauer, M. Godolt, J. L. Grenfell, P. Hedelt, D. Kitzmann, A. B. C. Patzer, H. Rauer and B. Stracke

Published online: 28 October 2010

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201015329

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New parameters and transit timing studies for OGLE2-TR-L9 b A29

M. Lendl, C. Afonso, J. Koppenhoefer, N. Nikolov, Th. Henning, M. Swain and J. Greiner

Published online: 28 October 2010

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201014940

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Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko: the GIADA dust environment model of the Rosetta mission target A63

M. Fulle, L. Colangeli, J. Agarwal, A. Aronica, V. Della Corte, F. Esposito, E. Grün, M. Ishiguro, R. Ligustri, J. J. Lopez Moreno et al. (6 more)

Published online: 03 November 2010

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201014928

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High resolution observation of 17P/ Holmes during the outburst event in 2007 A82

M. T. Capria, G. Cremonese and M. C. De Sanctis

Published online: 05 November 2010

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/200913889

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Short-term variability of a sample of 29 trans-Neptunian objects and Centaurs A93

A. Thirouin, J. L. Ortiz, R. Duffard, P. Santos-Sanz, F. J. Aceituno and N. Morales

Published online: 05 November 2010

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/200912340

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Transiting exoplanets from the CoRoT space mission - XIII. CoRoT-13b: a dense hot Jupiter in transit around a star with solar metallicity and super-solar lithium content A110

J. Cabrera, H. Bruntt, M. Ollivier, R. F. Díaz, Sz. Csizmadia, S. Aigrain, R. Alonso, J.-M. Almenara, M. Auvergne, A. Baglin et al. (38 more)

Published online: 09 November 2010

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201015154

Celestial mechanics and astrometry

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Explicit expansion of the three-body disturbing function for arbitrary eccentricities and inclinations A60

J. Laskar and G. Boué

Published online: 03 November 2010

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201014496

Atomic, molecular, and nuclear data

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Experimental studies of the dissociative recombination of CD₃CDOD⁺ and CH₃CH₂OH A90

M. Hamberg, V. Zhaunerchyk, E. Vigren, M. Kaminska, I. Kashperka, M. Zhang, S. Trippel, F. Österdahl, M. af Ugglas, R. D. Thomas et al. (6 more)

Published online: 05 November 2010

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201014774

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K-shell energy levels and radiative rates for transitions in Si xi A103

H. G. Wei, J. R. Shi, G. Zhao and Z. T. Liang

Published online: 09 November 2010

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201014923

Astronomical instrumentation

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First characterization of Jbel Aklim in Moroccan Anti-Atlas as a potential site for the E-ELT - Meteorological parameters and seeing measurements A69

M. Sabil, Z. Benkhaldoun, M. Lazrek, A. Benhida, Y. Hach, A. Habib and A. Bounhir

Published online: 04 November 2010

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201014270

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An all-sky catalogue of cold cores observed with Planck-HFI: simulation and colour detection algorithms A83

L. A. Montier, V.-M. Pelkonen, M. Juvela, I. Ristorcelli and D. J. Marshall

Published online: 05 November 2010

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/200913934

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An algorithm for correcting CoRoT raw light curves A86

D. Mislis, J. H. M. M. Schmitt, L. Carone, E. W. Guenther and M. Pätzold

Published online: 05 November 2010

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201014334

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Residual noise covariance for Planck low-resolution data analysis A94

R. Keskitalo, M. A. J. Ashdown, P. Cabella, T. Kisner, T. Poutanen, R. Stompor, J. G. Bartlett, J. Borrill, C. Cantalupo, G. de Gasperis et al. (15 more)

Published online: 05 November 2010

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/200912606

Catalogs and data

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Distance determination for RAVE stars using stellar models - II. Most likely values assuming a standard stellar evolution scenario A54

T. Zwitter, G. Matijevič, M. A. Breddels, M. C. Smith, A. Helmi, U. Munari, O. Bienaymé, J. Binney, J. Bland-Hawthorn, C. Boeche et al. (16 more)

Published online: 01 November 2010

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201014922

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New high-sensitivity, milliarcsecond resolution results from routine observations of lunar occultations at the ESO VLT A65

A. Richichi, O. Fors, W.-P. Chen and E. Mason

Published online: 04 November 2010

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201015325

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The catalog of variable sources detected by INTEGRAL - I. Catalog and techniques A68

I. Telezhinsky, D. Eckert, V. Savchenko, A. Neronov, N. Produit and T. J.-L. Courvoisier

Published online: 04 November 2010

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/200912216

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A spectroscopic survey of faint, high-Galactic-latitude red clump stars - I. The high resolution sample A79

M. Valentini and U. Munari

Published online: 04 November 2010

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201014870

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Photometric identification of blue horizontal branch stars A88

K. W. Smith, C. A. L. Bailer-Jones, R. J. Klement and X. X. Xue

Published online: 05 November 2010

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201014381

Numerical methods and codes

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Soft clustering analysis of galaxy morphologies: a worked example with SDSS A21

R. Andrae, P. Melchior and M. Bartelmann

Published online: 27 October 2010

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201014169

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MYRIAD: a new N-body code for simulations of star clusters A70

S. Konstantinidis and K. D. Kokkotas

Published online: 04 November 2010

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/200913890

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An absorbing boundary formulation for the stratified, linearized, ideal MHD equations based on an unsplit, convolutional perfectly matched layer A87

S. M. Hanasoge, D. Komatitsch and L. Gizon

Published online: 05 November 2010

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201014345

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A 3D radiative transfer framework - VII. Arbitrary velocity fields in the Eulerian frame A102

A. M. Seelmann, P. H. Hauschildt and E. Baron

Published online: 09 November 2010

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201014278

Astronomy & Astrophysics

Volume 522 (November 2010)

Letters

Heavy water around the L1448-mm protostar L1

Turbulent eddy-time-correlation in the solar convective zone L2

The MBH − Mstar relation of obscured AGNs at high redshift L3

Discovery of an extremely bright submillimeter galaxy at z = 3.93 L4

Lunar laser ranging test of the Nordtvedt parameter and a possible variation in the gravitational constant L5

Evolution and nucleosynthesis of extremely metal-poor and metal-free low- and intermediate-mass stars - II. s-process nucleosynthesis during the core He flash L6

Astrophysical processes

Modelling anomalous cosmic ray oxygen in the heliosheath A35

Relevance of jet emitting disc physics to microquasars: application to Cygnus X-1 A38

Disc-oscillation resonance and neutron star QPOs: 3:2 epicyclic orbital model A72

Cosmology (including clusters of galaxies)

Dust grain growth in the interstellar medium of 5 < z < 6.5 quasars A15

The metal-poor end of the Spite plateau - I. Stellar parameters, metallicities, and lithium abundances A26

Black holes and galactic density cusps - Spherically symmetric anisotropic cusps A28

Apparent high metallicity in 3–4 keV galaxy clusters: the inverse iron-bias in action in the case of the merging cluster Abell 2028 A34

Galaxy protocluster candidates at 1.6 < z ≲ 2 A58

Foregrounds for observations of the cosmological 21 cm line - II. Westerbork observations of the fields around 3C 196 and the North Celestial Pole A67

The Sloan great wall. Rich clusters A92

A detailed view of filaments and sheets in the warm-hot intergalactic medium - I. Pancake formation A114

Small-scale dynamo action during the formation of the first stars and galaxies - I. The ideal MHD limit A115

Extragalactic astronomy

Molecular and atomic gas in the Local Group galaxy M 33 A3

A kinematic study of the compact jet in quasar B3 1633+382 A5

PMAS optical integral field spectroscopy of luminous infrared galaxies - II. Spatially resolved stellar populations and excitation conditions, A7

Optically faint X-ray sources in the Chandra deep field North: Spitzer constraints A11

Constraining extragalactic background light from TeV blazars A12

Simultaneous polarization monitoring of supernovae SN 2008D/XT 080109 and SN 2007uy: isolating geometry from dust A14

Stellar mass and velocity functions of galaxies - Backward evolution and the fate of Milky Way siblings A18

The afterglow and host galaxy of GRB 090205: evidence of a Ly-α emitter at z = 4.65 A20

The impact of X-rays on molecular cloud fragmentation and the inital mass function A24

Environmental dependence of local luminous infrared galaxies A33

Line profile and continuum variability in the very broad-line Seyfert galaxy Mrk 926 A36

XMM-Newton observations of the hot spot galaxy NGC 2903 A53

13CO 1–0 imaging of the Medusa merger, NGC 4194 - Large scale variations in molecular cloud properties A59

3D MHD simulations of magnetic field evolution and radio polarization of barred galaxies A61

A large 12C/13C isotopic ratio in M 82 and NGC 253 A62

The broad-band X-ray spectrum of the Seyfert 1 galaxy, MCG+8-11-11 A64

The multifrequency campaign on 3C 279 in January 2006 A66

Accretion and nuclear activity in Virgo early-type galaxies A89

COSMOGRAIL: the COSmological MOnitoring of GRAvItational Lenses - VIII. Deconvolution of high resolution near-IR images and simple mass models for 7 gravitationally lensed quasars A95

Gamma rays from cloud penetration at the base of AGN jets A97

Rotation measures of radio sources in hot galaxy clusters A105

AGILE detection of intense γ-ray activity from the blazar PKS 0537–441 in October 2008 A109

Galactic structure, stellar clusters and populations

Equivalence of Boltzmann and moment equations A30

Quantifying the uncertainties of chemical evolution studies - II. Stellar yields A32

Modeling the ionizing spectra of H II regions: individual stars versus stellar ensembles A49

An X-ray study of the SNR G344.7-0.1 and the central object CXOU J170357.8-414302 A50

Radioactive 26Al from the Scorpius-Centaurus association A51

Search for extratidal features around 17 globular clusters in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey A71

Constraining the regular Galactic magnetic field with the 5-year WMAP polarization measurements at 22 GHz A73

The connection between missing AGB stars and extended horizontal branches A77

The ultracool-field dwarf luminosity-function and space density from the Canada-France Brown Dwarf Survey A112

Interstellar and circumstellar matter

Searching for the sub-stellar companions in the LkCa15 proto-planetary disk A2

Spectral energy distributions of 6.7 GHz methanol masers A8

Mid-infrared interferometry of massive young stellar objects - II. Evidence for a circumstellar disk surrounding the Kleinmann-Wright object A17

Ground-state ammonia and water in absorption towards Sgr B2 A19

Tracing early evolutionary stages of high-mass star formation with molecular lines A40

Chemistry in disks - IV. Benchmarking gas-grain chemical models with surface reactions A42

The near-infrared reflected spectrum of source I in Orion-KL A44

Photopolarimetric study of the star-forming clouds CB3, CB25, and CB39 A45

Radiative transfer modeling of the dust disk of the Herbig Be star R Monocerotis A46

Strong accretion on a deuterium-burning brown dwarf A47

On the observability of T Tauri accretion shocks in the X-ray band A55

Water formation on bare grains: When the chemistry on dust impacts interstellar gas A74

The circumstellar environment of the YSO TMR-1 and a revisit to the candidate very low-mass object TMR-1C A78

The extinction law for molecular clouds - Case study of B 335 A84

A molecular survey of outflow gas: velocity-dependent shock chemistry and the peculiar composition of the EHV gas A91

Modeling the Hα line emission around classical T Tauri stars using magnetospheric accretion and disk wind models A104

Star formation in Cometary Globule 1: the second generation A106

New results on thermal and photodesorption of CO ice using the novel InterStellar Astrochemistry Chamber (ISAC) A108

Stellar structure and evolution

Asteroseismology of red giants from the first four months of Kepler data: Fundamental stellar parameters A1

Thermohaline instability and rotation-induced mixing - I. Low- and intermediate-mass solar metallicity stars up to the end of the AGB A10

Internal heating of old neutron stars: contrasting different mechanisms A16

Electron fraction constraints based on nuclear statistical equilibrium with beta equilibrium A25

The M_BH − M_star relation of obscured AGNs at high redshift L3

¹³CO 1–0 imaging of the Medusa merger, NGC 4194 - Large scale variations in molecular cloud properties A59

A large ¹²C/¹³C isotopic ratio in M 82 and NGC 253 A62

Radioactive ²⁶Al from the Scorpius-Centaurus association A51

The impact of an updated ¹⁴N(p, γ)¹⁵O reaction rate on advanced evolutionary stages of low-mass stellar models A76

uvby–β photometry of solar twins - The solar colors, model atmospheres, and the T_eff and metallicity scales A98

Experimental studies of the dissociative recombination of CD₃CDOD⁺ and CH₃CH₂OH A90