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

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)

Published online: 28 November 2013

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

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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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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 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)

Published online: 28 November 2013

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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

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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

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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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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

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201322272

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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)

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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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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)

Published online: 29 November 2013

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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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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

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Long gamma ray bursts from binary black holes A25

Agnieszka Janiuk, Szymon Charzyński and Michał Bejger

Published online: 29 November 2013

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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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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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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

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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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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

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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

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

Patrick Simon

Published online: 02 December 2013

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201219257

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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

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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

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Viscous dissipation in 3D spine reconnection solutions A36

I. J. D. Craig and N. Lopez

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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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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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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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Modelling accretion in transitional disks A40

Tobias W. A. Müller and Wilhelm Kley

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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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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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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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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

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201321109

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

G. La Vacca and D. F. Mota

Published online: 05 December 2013

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201220971

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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 et al. (2 more)

Published online: 05 December 2013

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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

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201322216

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The boundary layer in compact binaries A56

Marius Hertfelder, Wilhelm Kley, Valery Suleimanov and Klaus Werner

Published online: 05 December 2013

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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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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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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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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 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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Distribution of magnetic fields in the quiet Sun A62

M. Faurobert and G. Ricort

Published online: 06 December 2013

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A multi-scale filament extraction method: getfilaments A63

A. Men’shchikov

Published online: 06 December 2013

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

B. Huber, C. Tchernin, D. Eckert, C. Farnier, A. Manalaysay, U. Straumann and R. Walter

Published online: 06 December 2013

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201321947

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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

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

M. Rigault, Y. Copin, G. Aldering, P. Antilogus, C. Aragon, S. Bailey, C. Baltay, S. Bongard, C. Buton, A. Canto et al. (27 more)

Published online: 06 December 2013

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Neutrino signal from extended Galactic sources in IceCube A67

C. Tchernin, J. A. Aguilar, A. Neronov and T. Montaruli

Published online: 06 December 2013

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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

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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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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)

Published online: 06 December 2013

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201321284

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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)

Published online: 06 December 2013

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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)

Published online: 06 December 2013

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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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Revisited fluorine abundances in the globular cluster M 22 A74

P. de Laverny and A. Recio-Blanco

Published online: 06 December 2013

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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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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

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201321626

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

F. Durret, C. Perrot, G. B. Lima Neto, C. Adami, E. Bertin and J. Bagchi

Published online: 06 December 2013

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201322082

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

A. Lamberts, S. Fromang, G. Dubus and R. Teyssier

Published online: 09 December 2013

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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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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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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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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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A revised distance scale of planetary nebulae A85

Roberto Ortiz

Published online: 10 December 2013

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

H. S. Dúmet-Montoya, G. B. Caminha and M. Makler

Published online: 10 December 2013

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Magnetic field amplification in young galaxies A87

J. Schober, D. R. G. Schleicher and R. S. Klessen

Published online: 11 December 2013

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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

The Sun

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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

Cosmology (including clusters of galaxies)

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

U. Feindt, M. Kerschhaggl, M. Kowalski, G. Aldering, P. Antilogus, C. Aragon, S. Bailey, C. Baltay, S. Bongard, C. Buton et al. (26 more)

Published online: 10 December 2013

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201321880

Astronomical instrumentation

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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

Numerical methods and codes

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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

Astrophysical processes

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Towards a hybrid dynamo model for the Milky Way A93

Oliver Gressel, Detlef Elstner and Udo Ziegler

Published online: 11 December 2013

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201322349

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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

Interstellar and circumstellar matter

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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

Planets and planetary systems

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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

The Sun

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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

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201322678

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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

Extragalactic astronomy

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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

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201322527

Interstellar and circumstellar matter

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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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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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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

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201322220

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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

Extragalactic astronomy

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Ultraviolet variability of quasars: dependence on the accretion rate A104

H. Meusinger and V. Weiss

Published online: 13 December 2013

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201322410

Interstellar and circumstellar matter

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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

Stellar atmospheres

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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

The Sun

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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

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201322094

Catalogs and data

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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

Galactic structure, stellar clusters and populations

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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

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201321397

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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

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201322352

Planets and planetary systems

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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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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

Astrophysical processes

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Cosmic-ray ionisation in collapsing clouds A114

M. Padovani, P. Hennebelle and D. Galli

Published online: 17 December 2013

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201322407

The Sun

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Erratum

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

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

Interstellar and circumstellar matter

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

Stellar structure and evolution

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

Interstellar and circumstellar matter

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

Stellar structure and evolution

Rotation and differential rotation of active Kepler stars A4

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

Stellar structure and evolution

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

Interstellar and circumstellar matter

A Herschel study of NGC 650 A7

Stellar atmospheres

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

Extragalactic astronomy

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

Stellar structure and evolution

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

Extragalactic astronomy

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

Galactic structure, stellar clusters and populations

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

Extragalactic astronomy

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

Stellar atmospheres

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

Stellar structure and evolution

A comparison of evolutionary tracks for single Galactic massive stars A16

Planets and planetary systems

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

Interstellar and circumstellar matter

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

Galactic structure, stellar clusters and populations

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

Catalogs and data

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

Interstellar and circumstellar matter

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

Astrophysical processes

Long gamma ray bursts from binary black holes A25

Extragalactic astronomy

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

Stellar structure and evolution

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

Extragalactic astronomy

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

Stellar structure and evolution

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

The Sun

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

Stellar structure and evolution

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

Cosmology (including clusters of galaxies)

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

Extragalactic astronomy

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

Numerical methods and codes

Using 3D Voronoi grids in radiative transfer simulations A35

The Sun

Viscous dissipation in 3D spine reconnection solutions A36

Numerical methods and codes

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

The Sun

Effect of gravitational stratification on the propagation of a CME A38

Interstellar and circumstellar matter

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

Planets and planetary systems

Modelling accretion in transitional disks A40

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