M. Argudo-Fernández, S. Verley, G. Bergond, J. Sulentic, J. Sabater, M. Fernández Lorenzo, S. Leon, D. Espada, L. Verdes-Montenegro, J. D. Santander-Vela et al. (2 more)

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201321326

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22 GHz water maser search in 37 nearby galaxies - Four new water megamasers in Seyfert 2 and OH maser/absorber galaxies A12

J. Wagner

Published online: 28 November 2013

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201322655

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The external origin of the polar gaseous disk of the S0 galaxy IC 5181 A14

A. Pizzella, L. Morelli, E. M. Corsini, E. Dalla Bontà and M. Cesetti

Published online: 28 November 2013

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201322214

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The metals-to-dust ratio to very low metallicities using GRB and QSO absorbers; extremely rapid dust formation A26

Tayyaba Zafar and Darach Watson

Published online: 02 December 2013

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201321413

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Black-hole mass estimates for a homogeneous sample of bright flat-spectrum radio quasars A28

G. Castignani, F. Haardt, A. Lapi, G. De Zotti, A. Celotti and L. Danese

Published online: 02 December 2013

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201321424

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Star formation and accretion in the circumnuclear disks of active galaxies A34

Stephanie Wutschik, Dominik R. G. Schleicher and Thomas S. Palmer II

Published online: 02 December 2013

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201321895

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Magnetic field structure and halo in NGC 4631 A42

Silvia Carolina Mora and Marita Krause

Published online: 02 December 2013

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201321043

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Density waves and star formation in grand-design spirals A59

Bernabé Cedrés, Jordi Cepa, Ángel Bongiovanni, Héctor Castañeda, Miguel Sánchez-Portal and Akihiko Tomita

Published online: 05 December 2013

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201321588

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The unusual afterglow of the gamma-ray burst 100621A A70

J. Greiner, T. Krühler, M. Nardini, R. Filgas, A. Moin, C. de Breuck, F. Montenegro-Montes, A. Lundgren, S. Klose, P. M. J. fonso et al. (20 more)

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The mean star-forming properties of QSO host galaxies A72

D. J. Rosario, B. Trakhtenbrot, D. Lutz, H. Netzer, J. R. Trump, J. D. Silverman, M. Schramm, E. Lusso, S. Berta, A. Bongiorno et al. (15 more)

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201322196

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The relationship between radio power at 22 and 43 GHz and black hole properties of AGN in elliptical galaxies A80

Songyoun Park, Bong Won Sohn and Sukyoung K. Yi

Published online: 09 December 2013

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An optical spectroscopic survey of the 3CR sample of radio galaxies with z < 0.3 - V. Implications for the unified model for FR IIs A81

Ranieri D. Baldi, Alessandro Capetti, Sara Buttiglione, Marco Chiaberge and Annalisa Celotti

Published online: 09 December 2013

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201322842

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Darth Fader: Using wavelets to obtain accurate redshifts of spectra at very low signal-to-noise A83

D. P. Machado, A. Leonard, J.-L. Starck, F. B. Abdalla and S. Jouvel

Published online: 16 December 2013

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201219857

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Dust-to-metal ratios in damped Lyman-α absorbers - Fresh clues to the origins of dust and optical extinction towards γ-ray bursts A88

A. De Cia, C. Ledoux, S. Savaglio, P. Schady and P. M. Vreeswijk

Published online: 10 December 2013

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201321834

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Near-infrared long-slit spectra of Seyfert galaxies: gas excitation across the central kiloparsec A99

T. P. R. van der Laan, E. Schinnerer, T. Böker and L. Armus

Published online: 12 December 2013

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Ultraviolet variability of quasars: dependence on the accretion rate A104

H. Meusinger and V. Weiss

Published online: 13 December 2013

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Galactic structure, stellar clusters and populations

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Searching for chemical inhomogeneities in open clusters - Analysis of the CN and CH molecular band strengths in NGC 2158, NGC 2420, NGC 2682, NGC 7789, and Berkeley 29 A5

R. Carrera and C. E. Martínez-Vázquez

Published online: 28 November 2013

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201322048

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The Monitor Project: stellar rotation at 13 Myr - I. A photometric monitoring survey of the young open cluster h Persei A13

E. Moraux, S. Artemenko, J. Bouvier, J. Irwin, M. Ibrahimov, T. Magakian, K. Grankin, E. Nikogossian, C. Cardoso, S. Hodgkin et al. (2 more)

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Discovery of new companions to high proper motion stars from the VVV Survey A21

Valentin D. Ivanov, Dante Minniti, Maren Hempel, Radostin Kurtev, Ignacio Toledo, Roberto K. Saito, Javier Alonso-García, Juan Carlos Beamín, Jura Borissova, Márcio Catelan et al. (7 more)

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Anchors for the cosmic distance scale: the Cepheids U Sagittarii, CF Cassiopeiae, and CEab Cassiopeiae A22

D. Majaess, G. Carraro, C. Moni Bidin, C. Bonatto, L. Berdnikov, D. Balam, M. Moyano, L. Gallo, D. Turner, D. Lane et al. (4 more)

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Chemical abundances in LMC stellar populations - II. The bar sample A44

M. Van der Swaelmen, V. Hill, F. Primas and A. A. Cole

Published online: 05 December 2013

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TOPoS - I. Survey design and analysis of the first sample A71

E. Caffau, P. Bonifacio, L. Sbordone, P. François, L. Monaco, M. Spite, B. Plez, R. Cayrel, N. Christlieb, P. Clark et al. (7 more)

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Revisited fluorine abundances in the globular cluster M 22 A74

P. de Laverny and A. Recio-Blanco

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201322222

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Stellar clusters in the inner Galaxy and their correlation with cold dust emission A76

Esteban F. E. Morales, Friedrich Wyrowski, Frederic Schuller and Karl M. Menten

Published online: 09 December 2013

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The age structure of stellar populations in the solar vicinity - Clues of a two-phase formation history of the Milky Way disk A109

Misha Haywood, Paola Di Matteo, Matthew D. Lehnert, David Katz and Ana Gómez

Published online: 16 December 2013

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Revealing the influence of dark matter on the nature of motion and the families of orbits in axisymmetric galaxy models A110

Euaggelos E. Zotos and Nicolaos D. Caranicolas

Published online: 16 December 2013

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Time delay between the optical and X-ray outbursts in the high-mass X-ray transient A0535+26/HDE245770 A1

F. Giovannelli, G. S. Bisnovatyi-Kogan and A. S. Klepnev

Published online: 28 November 2013

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201220800

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Nitrogen isotopic ratios in Barnard 1: a consistent study of the N₂H⁺, NH₃, CN, HCN, and HNC isotopologues A3

F. Daniel, M. Gérin, E. Roueff, J. Cernicharo, N. Marcelino, F. Lique, D. C. Lis, D. Teyssier, N. Biver and D. Bockelée-Morvan

Published online: 28 November 2013

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A Herschel study of NGC 650 A7

P. A. M. van Hoof, G. C. Van de Steene, K. M. Exter, M. J. Barlow, T. Ueta, M. A. T. Groenewegen, W. K. Gear, H. L. Gomez, P. C. Hargrave, R. J. Ivison et al. (8 more)

Published online: 28 November 2013

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201221023

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Distance and age of the pulsar wind nebula 3C 58 A18

R. Kothes

Published online: 29 November 2013

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201219839

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Pillars and globules at the edges of H ii regions - Confronting Herschel observations and numerical simulations A19

P. Tremblin, V. Minier, N. Schneider, E. Audit, T. Hill, P. Didelon, N. Peretto, D. Arzoumanian, F. Motte, A. Zavagno et al. (17 more)

Published online: 29 November 2013

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Multiple spiral patterns in the transitional disk of HD 100546 A20

A. Boccaletti, E. Pantin, A.-M. Lagrange, J.-C. Augereau, H. Meheut and S. P. Quanz

Published online: 29 November 2013

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201322365

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Large scale IRAM 30 m CO-observations in the giant molecular cloud complex W43 A24

P. Carlhoff, Q. Nguyen Luong, P. Schilke, F. Motte, N. Schneider, H. Beuther, S. Bontemps, F. Heitsch, T. Hill, C. Kramer et al. (4 more)

Published online: 29 November 2013

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201321592

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Deuterated water in the solar-type protostars NGC 1333 IRAS 4A and IRAS 4B A39

A. Coutens, C. Vastel, S. Cabrit, C. Codella, L. E. Kristensen, C. Ceccarelli, E. F. van Dishoeck, A. C. A. Boogert, S. Bottinelli, A. Castets et al. (12 more)

Published online: 03 December 2013

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Gas-phase CO depletion and N₂H⁺ abundances in starless cores A41

N. Lippok, R. Launhardt, D. Semenov, A. M. Stutz, Z. Balog, Th. Henning, O. Krause, H. Linz, M. Nielbock, Ya. N. Pavlyuchenkov et al. (3 more)

Published online: 02 December 2013

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201322129

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Face to phase with RU Lupi A57

G. F. Gahm, H. C. Stempels, F. M. Walter, P. P. Petrov and G. J. Herczeg

Published online: 05 December 2013

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201322750

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A multi-scale filament extraction method: getfilaments A63

A. Men’shchikov

Published online: 06 December 2013

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201321885

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Ion-neutral friction and accretion-driven turbulence in self-gravitating filaments A68

Patrick Hennebelle and Philippe André

Published online: 06 December 2013

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201321761

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The IRAM-30 m line survey of the Horsehead PDR - IV. Comparative chemistry of H₂CO and CH₃OH A73

V. V. Guzmán, J. R. Goicoechea, J. Pety, P. Gratier, M. Gerin, E. Roueff, F. Le Petit, J. Le Bourlot and A. Faure

Published online: 06 December 2013

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201322460

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Sensitive CO and ¹³CO survey of water fountain stars - Detections towards IRAS 18460-0151 and IRAS 18596+0315 A82

J. R. Rizzo, J. F. Gómez, L. F. Miranda, M. Osorio, O. Suárez and M. C. Durán-Rojas

Published online: 09 December 2013

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201322187

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A revised distance scale of planetary nebulae A85

Roberto Ortiz

Published online: 10 December 2013

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201322112

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Spatially extended OH⁺ emission from the Orion Bar and Ridge A95

F. F. S. van der Tak, Z. Nagy, V. Ossenkopf, Z. Makai, J. H. Black, A. Faure, M. Gerin and E. A. Bergin

Published online: 11 December 2013

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201322164

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The Herschel/PACS view of disks around low-mass stars in Chamaleon-I A100

J. Olofsson, L. Szűcs, Th. Henning, H. Linz, I. Pascucci and V. Joergens

Published online: 11 December 2013

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201321967

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Spatially resolved physical and chemical properties of the planetary nebula NGC 3242 A102

H. Monteiro, D. R. Gonçalves, M. L. Leal-Ferreira and R. L. M. Corradi

Published online: 12 December 2013

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A Keplerian disk around a Class 0 source: ALMA observations of VLA1623A A103

Nadia M. Murillo, Shih-Ping Lai, Simon Bruderer, Daniel Harsono and Ewine F. van Dishoeck

Published online: 13 December 2013

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201322537

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Small vs. large dust grains in transitional disks: do different cavity sizes indicate a planet? - SAO 206462 (HD 135344B) in polarized light with VLT/NACO A105

A. Garufi, S. P. Quanz, H. Avenhaus, E. Buenzli, C. Dominik, F. Meru, M. R. Meyer, P. Pinilla, H. M. Schmid and S. Wolf

Published online: 13 December 2013

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201322429

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On the use of the ratio of small to large separations in asteroseismic model fitting A2

Ian W. Roxburgh and Sergei V. Vorontsov

Published online: 28 November 2013

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Rotation and differential rotation of active Kepler stars A4

Timo Reinhold, Ansgar Reiners and Gibor Basri

Published online: 28 November 2013

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201321970

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Stellar mass-loss near the Eddington limit - Tracing the sub-photospheric layers of classical Wolf-Rayet stars A6

G. Gräfener and J. S. Vink

Published online: 28 November 2013

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201321914

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The supergiant B[e] star LHA 115-S 18 – binary and/or luminous blue variable? A10

J. S. Clark, E. S. Bartlett, M. J. Coe, R. Dorda, F. Haberl, J. B. Lamb, I. Negueruela and A. Udalski

Published online: 28 November 2013

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201321216

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The circumstellar environment and evolutionary state of the supergiant B[e] star Wd1-9 A11

J. S. Clark, B. W. Ritchie and I. Negueruela

Published online: 28 November 2013

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A comparison of evolutionary tracks for single Galactic massive stars A16

F. Martins and A. Palacios

Published online: 28 November 2013

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WR 138: new results from X-ray and optical spectroscopy A27

M. Palate, G. Rauw, M. De Becker, Y. Nazé and P. Eenens

Published online: 02 December 2013

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201322162

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The VLT-FLAMES Tarantula Survey - XII. Rotational velocities of the single O-type stars A29

O. H. Ramírez-Agudelo, S. Simón-Díaz, H. Sana, A. de Koter, C. Sabín-Sanjulían, S. E. de Mink, P. L. Dufton, G. Gräfener, C. J. Evans, A. Herrero et al. (8 more)

Published online: 03 December 2013

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Doppler tomography of the circumstellar disk of π Aquarii A30

S. V. Zharikov, A. S. Miroshnichenko, E. Pollmann, S. Danford, K. S. Bjorkman, N. D. Morrison, A. Favaro, J. Guarro Fló, J. N. Terry, V. Desnoux et al. (10 more)

Published online: 02 December 2013

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Clumpy stellar winds and high-energy emission in high-mass binaries hosting a young pulsar A32

V. Bosch-Ramon

Published online: 02 December 2013

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201322249

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Analytical representations of unified equations of state for neutron-star matter A48

A. Y. Potekhin, A. F. Fantina, N. Chamel, J. M. Pearson and S. Goriely

Published online: 03 December 2013

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201321697

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An archive study of 18 old novae - I. The UV spectra A49

P. Selvelli and R. Gilmozzi

Published online: 04 December 2013

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201220627

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Parallax measurements of cool brown dwarfs A52

E. Manjavacas, B. Goldman, S. Reffert and T. Henning

Published online: 04 December 2013

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201321720

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The Stagger-grid: A grid of 3D stellar atmosphere models - II. Horizontal and temporal averaging and spectral line formation A8

Z. Magic, R. Collet, W. Hayek and M. Asplund

Published online: 28 November 2013

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201322252

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X-shooter GTO: evidence for a population of extremely metal-poor, alpha-poor stars A15

E. Caffau, P. Bonifacio, P. François, L. Sbordone, M. Spite, L. Monaco, B. Plez, F. Spite, S. Zaggia, H.-G. Ludwig et al. (5 more)

Published online: 28 November 2013

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201322213

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GIANO-TNG spectroscopy of red supergiants in the young star cluster RSGC2 A46

L. Origlia, E. Oliva, R. Maiolino, A. Mucciarelli, C. Baffa, V. Biliotti, P. Bruno, G. Falcini, V. Gavriousev, F. Ghinassi et al. (12 more)

Published online: 03 December 2013

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201322586

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Inelastic aluminium-hydrogen collision data for non-LTE applications in stellar atmospheres A60

Andrey K. Belyaev

Published online: 06 December 2013

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201322389

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A multi-wavelength view of AB Doradus outer atmosphere - Simultaneous X-ray and optical spectroscopy at high cadence A69

S. Lalitha, B. Fuhrmeister, U. Wolter, J. H. M. M. Schmitt, D. Engels and M. H. Wieringa

Published online: 06 December 2013

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201321419

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New insights into the dust formation of oxygen-rich AGB stars A75

I. Karovicova, M. Wittkowski, K. Ohnaka, D. A. Boboltz, E. Fossat and M. Scholz

Published online: 09 December 2013

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201322376

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The virtual observatory service TheoSSA: Establishing a database of synthetic stellar flux standards - I. NLTE spectral analysis of the DA-type white dwarf G191−B2B A106

T. Rauch, K. Werner, R. Bohlin and J. W. Kruk

Published online: 16 December 2013

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201322336

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Excitation of an outflow from the lower solar atmosphere and a co-temporal EUV transient brightening A31

C. J. Nelson and J. G. Doyle

Published online: 02 December 2013

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201322396

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Viscous dissipation in 3D spine reconnection solutions A36

I. J. D. Craig and N. Lopez

Published online: 02 December 2013

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Effect of gravitational stratification on the propagation of a CME A38

P. Pagano, D. H. Mackay and S. Poedts

Published online: 02 December 2013

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Dynamics of the Fe II 396.94 nm emission line observed at solar disk center A50

W. Schmidt and J. Fisher

Published online: 04 December 2013

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Distribution of magnetic fields in the quiet Sun A62

M. Faurobert and G. Ricort

Published online: 06 December 2013

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Properties of sunspot penumbral grains observed with Hinode A77

Y. Zhang and K. Ichimoto

Published online: 06 December 2013

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201118119

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Dynamics of the solar atmosphere above a pore with a light bridge A84

M. Sobotka, M. Švanda, J. Jurčák, P. Heinzel, D. Del Moro and F. Berrilli

Published online: 11 December 2013

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201322148

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Coronal heating and nanoflares: current sheet formation and heating A89

R. Bowness, A. W. Hood and C. E. Parnell

Published online: 10 December 2013

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201116652

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Fast magnetoacoustic wave trains in magnetic funnels of the solar corona A97

D. J. Pascoe, V. M. Nakariakov and E. G. Kupriyanova

Published online: 11 December 2013

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Decay-less kink oscillations in coronal loops A107

S. Anfinogentov, G. Nisticò and V. M. Nakariakov

Published online: 16 December 2013

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Variation of solar oscillation frequencies in solar cycle 23 and their relation to sunspot area and number (Corrigendum) C1

R. Jain, S. C. Tripathy, F. T. Watson, L. Fletcher, K. Jain and F. Hill

Published online: 13 December 2013

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201219876e

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X-ray irradiation and mass-loss of the hot Jupiter WASP-43b A17

S. Czesla, M. Salz, P. C. Schneider and J. H. M. M. Schmitt

Published online: 29 November 2013

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Modelling accretion in transitional disks A40

Tobias W. A. Müller and Wilhelm Kley

Published online: 02 December 2013

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Radiation magnetohydrodynamics in global simulations of protoplanetary discs A43

M. Flock, S. Fromang, M. González and B. Commerçon

Published online: 03 December 2013

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201322451

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Erosion of dust aggregates A45

A. Seizinger, S. Krijt and W. Kley

Published online: 04 December 2013

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Meteor-shower complex of asteroid 2003 EH1 compared with that of comet 96P/Machholz A47

L. Neslušan, M. Hajduková jr. and M. Jakubík

Published online: 03 December 2013

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201322228

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Orbital and physical properties of planets and their hosts: new insights on planet formation and evolution A51

V. Zh. Adibekyan, P. Figueira, N. C. Santos, A. Mortier, C. Mordasini, E. Delgado Mena, S. G. Sousa, A. C. M. Correia, G. Israelian and M. Oshagh

Published online: 04 December 2013

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201322551

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Magnesium in the atmosphere of the planet HD 209458 b: observations of the thermosphere-exosphere transition region A54

A. Vidal-Madjar, C. M. Huitson, V. Bourrier, J.-M. Désert, G. Ballester, A. Lecavelier des Etangs, D. K. Sing, D. Ehrenreich, R. Ferlet, G. Hébrard and J. C. McConnell

Published online: 05 December 2013

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201322234

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Impact flux on Jupiter: From superbolides to large-scale collisions A55

R. Hueso, S. Pérez-Hoyos, A. Sánchez-Lavega, A. Wesley, G. Hall, C. Go, M. Tachikawa, K. Aoki, M. Ichimaru, J. W. T. Pond et al. (14 more)

Published online: 05 December 2013

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A new scenario for the origin of the 3/2 resonant system HD 45364 A65

J. A. Correa-Otto, T. A. Michtchenko and C. Beaugé

Published online: 06 December 2013

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201321917

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A quantification of hydrodynamical effects on protoplanetary dust growth A96

E. Sellentin, J. P. Ramsey, F. Windmark and C. P. Dullemond

Published online: 11 December 2013

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201321587

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Herschel and IRAM-30 m observations of comet C/2012 S1 (ISON) at 4.5 AU from the Sun A101

L. O’Rourke, D. Bockelée-Morvan, N. Biver, B. Altieri, D. Teyssier, L. Jorda, V. Debout, C. Snodgrass, M. Küppers, M. A’Hearn et al. (2 more)

Published online: 12 December 2013

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201322756

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Imaging diagnostics for transitional discs A111

M. de Juan Ovelar, M. Min, C. Dominik, C. Thalmann, P. Pinilla, M. Benisty and T. Birnstiel

Published online: 16 December 2013

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201322218

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High-precision stellar limb-darkening measurements - A transit study of 38 Kepler planetary candidates A112

H. M. Müller, K. F. Huber, S. Czesla, U. Wolter and J. H. M. M. Schmitt

Published online: 16 December 2013

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201322079

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Proposal for a Laue lens relying on hybrid quasi-mosaic curved crystals A58

Valerio Bellucci, Riccardo Camattari and Vincenzo Guidi

Published online: 05 December 2013

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201322053

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A frequency comb calibrated solar atlas A61

P. Molaro, M. Esposito, S. Monai, G. Lo Curto, J. I. González Hernández, T. W. Hänsch, R. Holzwarth, A. Manescau, L. Pasquini, R. A. Probst et al. (4 more)

Published online: 09 December 2013

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201322324

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An advanced scattered moonlight model for Cerro Paranal A91

A. Jones, S. Noll, W. Kausch, C. Szyszka and S. Kimeswenger

Published online: 11 December 2013

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201322433

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On-sky characterisation of the VISTA NB118 narrow-band filters at 1.19 μm A94

Bo Milvang-Jensen, Wolfram Freudling, Johannes Zabl, Johan P. U. Fynbo, Palle Møller, Kim K. Nilsson, Henry Joy McCracken, Jens Hjorth, Olivier Le Fèvre, Lidia Tasca et al. (2 more)

Published online: 11 December 2013

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201321814

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Detecting cosmic rays with the LOFAR radio telescope A98

P. Schellart, A. Nelles, S. Buitink, A. Corstanje, J. E. Enriquez, H. Falcke, W. Frieswijk, J. R. Hörandel, A. Horneffer, C. W. James et al. (95 more)

Published online: 12 December 2013

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201322683

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FIRST, a fibered aperture masking instrument - II. Spectroscopy of the Capella binary system at the diffraction limit A113

E. Huby, G. Duchêne, F. Marchis, S. Lacour, G. Perrin, T. Kotani, É. Choquet, E. L. Gates, O. Lai and F. Allard

Published online: 16 December 2013

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201321894

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Exploring the bulk of the BL Lacertae object population - I. Parsec-scale radio structures A23

E. Liuzzo, M. Giroletti, G. Giovannini, B. Boccardi, S. Tamburri, G. B. Taylor, C. Casadio, M. Kadler, G. Tosti and A. Mignano

Published online: 29 November 2013

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201322144

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Infrared identification of high-mass X-ray binaries discovered by INTEGRAL A108

A. Coleiro, S. Chaty, J. A. Zurita Heras, F. Rahoui and J. A. Tomsick

Published online: 16 December 2013

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201322382

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Using 3D Voronoi grids in radiative transfer simulations A35

P. Camps, M. Baes and W. Saftly

Published online: 03 December 2013

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201322281

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Denoising spectroscopic data by means of the improved least-squares deconvolution method A37

A. Tkachenko, T. Van Reeth, V. Tsymbal, C. Aerts, O. Kochukhov and J. Debosscher

Published online: 03 December 2013

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201322532

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Searching for transits in the Wide Field Camera Transit Survey with difference-imaging light curves A92

J. Zendejas Dominguez, J. Koppenhoefer, R. P. Saglia, J. L. Birkby, S. T. Hodgkin, G. Kovács, D. J. Pinfield, B. Sipőcz, D. Barrado, R. Bender et al. (6 more)

Published online: 10 December 2013

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201321317

Astronomy & Astrophysics

Volume 560 (December 2013)

Letters

Coronal magnetic field strength from Type II radio emission: complementarity with Faraday rotation measurements L1

Detection of circumstellar nitric oxide - Enhanced nitrogen abundance in IRC +10420 L2

Astrophysical processes

Long gamma ray bursts from binary black holes A25

The boundary layer in compact binaries A56

Neutrino signal from extended Galactic sources in IceCube A67

Simulating gamma-ray binaries with a relativistic extension of RAMSES A79

Magnetic field amplification in young galaxies A87

Towards a hybrid dynamo model for the Milky Way A93

Cosmic-ray ionisation in collapsing clouds A114

Cosmology (including clusters of galaxies)

Improving three-dimensional mass mapping with weak gravitational lensing using galaxy clustering A33

Mass-varying neutrino in light of cosmic microwave background and weak lensing A53

Probing the cosmic-ray content of galaxy clusters by stacking Fermi-LAT count maps A64

Evidence of environmental dependencies of Type Ia supernovae from the Nearby Supernova Factory indicated by local Hα A66

The merging cluster of galaxies Abell 3376: an optical view A78

Analytic solutions for Navarro-Frenk-White lens models in the strong lensing regime for low characteristic convergences A86

Measuring cosmic bulk flows with Type Ia supernovae from the Nearby Supernova Factory A90

Extragalactic astronomy

The AMIGA sample of isolated galaxies - XII. Revision of the isolation degree for AMIGA galaxies using the SDSS A9

22 GHz water maser search in 37 nearby galaxies - Four new water megamasers in Seyfert 2 and OH maser/absorber galaxies A12

The external origin of the polar gaseous disk of the S0 galaxy IC 5181 A14

The metals-to-dust ratio to very low metallicities using GRB and QSO absorbers; extremely rapid dust formation A26

Black-hole mass estimates for a homogeneous sample of bright flat-spectrum radio quasars A28

Star formation and accretion in the circumnuclear disks of active galaxies A34

Magnetic field structure and halo in NGC 4631 A42

Density waves and star formation in grand-design spirals A59

The unusual afterglow of the gamma-ray burst 100621A A70

The mean star-forming properties of QSO host galaxies A72

The relationship between radio power at 22 and 43 GHz and black hole properties of AGN in elliptical galaxies A80

An optical spectroscopic survey of the 3CR sample of radio galaxies with z < 0.3 - V. Implications for the unified model for FR IIs A81

Darth Fader: Using wavelets to obtain accurate redshifts of spectra at very low signal-to-noise A83

Dust-to-metal ratios in damped Lyman-α absorbers - Fresh clues to the origins of dust and optical extinction towards γ-ray bursts A88

Near-infrared long-slit spectra of Seyfert galaxies: gas excitation across the central kiloparsec A99

Ultraviolet variability of quasars: dependence on the accretion rate A104

Galactic structure, stellar clusters and populations

Searching for chemical inhomogeneities in open clusters - Analysis of the CN and CH molecular band strengths in NGC 2158, NGC 2420, NGC 2682, NGC 7789, and Berkeley 29 A5

The Monitor Project: stellar rotation at 13 Myr - I. A photometric monitoring survey of the young open cluster h Persei A13

Discovery of new companions to high proper motion stars from the VVV Survey A21

Anchors for the cosmic distance scale: the Cepheids U Sagittarii, CF Cassiopeiae, and CEab Cassiopeiae A22

Chemical abundances in LMC stellar populations - II. The bar sample A44

TOPoS - I. Survey design and analysis of the first sample A71

Revisited fluorine abundances in the globular cluster M 22 A74

Stellar clusters in the inner Galaxy and their correlation with cold dust emission A76

The age structure of stellar populations in the solar vicinity - Clues of a two-phase formation history of the Milky Way disk A109

Revealing the influence of dark matter on the nature of motion and the families of orbits in axisymmetric galaxy models A110

Interstellar and circumstellar matter

Time delay between the optical and X-ray outbursts in the high-mass X-ray transient A0535+26/HDE245770 A1

Nitrogen isotopic ratios in Barnard 1: a consistent study of the N2H+, NH3, CN, HCN, and HNC isotopologues A3

A Herschel study of NGC 650 A7

Distance and age of the pulsar wind nebula 3C 58 A18

Pillars and globules at the edges of H ii regions - Confronting Herschel observations and numerical simulations A19

Multiple spiral patterns in the transitional disk of HD 100546 A20

Large scale IRAM 30 m CO-observations in the giant molecular cloud complex W43 A24

Deuterated water in the solar-type protostars NGC 1333 IRAS 4A and IRAS 4B A39

Gas-phase CO depletion and N2H+ abundances in starless cores A41

Face to phase with RU Lupi A57

A multi-scale filament extraction method: getfilaments A63

Ion-neutral friction and accretion-driven turbulence in self-gravitating filaments A68

The IRAM-30 m line survey of the Horsehead PDR - IV. Comparative chemistry of H2CO and CH3OH A73

Sensitive CO and 13CO survey of water fountain stars - Detections towards IRAS 18460-0151 and IRAS 18596+0315 A82

A revised distance scale of planetary nebulae A85

Spatially extended OH+ emission from the Orion Bar and Ridge A95

The Herschel/PACS view of disks around low-mass stars in Chamaleon-I A100

Spatially resolved physical and chemical properties of the planetary nebula NGC 3242 A102

A Keplerian disk around a Class 0 source: ALMA observations of VLA1623A A103

Small vs. large dust grains in transitional disks: do different cavity sizes indicate a planet? - SAO 206462 (HD 135344B) in polarized light with VLT/NACO A105

Stellar structure and evolution

On the use of the ratio of small to large separations in asteroseismic model fitting A2

Rotation and differential rotation of active Kepler stars A4

Stellar mass-loss near the Eddington limit - Tracing the sub-photospheric layers of classical Wolf-Rayet stars A6

The supergiant B[e] star LHA 115-S 18 – binary and/or luminous blue variable? A10

The circumstellar environment and evolutionary state of the supergiant B[e] star Wd1-9 A11

A comparison of evolutionary tracks for single Galactic massive stars A16

WR 138: new results from X-ray and optical spectroscopy A27

The VLT-FLAMES Tarantula Survey - XII. Rotational velocities of the single O-type stars A29

Doppler tomography of the circumstellar disk of π Aquarii A30

Nitrogen isotopic ratios in Barnard 1: a consistent study of the N₂H⁺, NH₃, CN, HCN, and HNC isotopologues A3

Gas-phase CO depletion and N₂H⁺ abundances in starless cores A41

The IRAM-30 m line survey of the Horsehead PDR - IV. Comparative chemistry of H₂CO and CH₃OH A73

Sensitive CO and ¹³CO survey of water fountain stars - Detections towards IRAS 18460-0151 and IRAS 18596+0315 A82

Spatially extended OH⁺ emission from the Orion Bar and Ridge A95