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Yet another galaxy identification for an ultraluminous X-ray source p. L27

N. Masetti, L. Foschini, L. C. Ho, M. Dadina, G. Di Cocco, G. Malaguti and E. Palazzi

Published online: 17 November 2003

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Evidence for supernova signatures in the spectrum of the late-time bump of the optical afterglow of GRB 021211 p. L33

M. Della Valle, D. Malesani, S. Benetti, V. Testa, M. Hamuy, L. A. Antonelli, G. Chincarini, G. Cocozza, S. Covino, P. D'Avanzo et al. (7 more)

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Evidence for coronal activity cycles on 61 Cygni A and B p. L39

A. Hempelmann, J. H. M. M. Schmitt, S. L. Baliunas and R. A. Donahue

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A quadruply imaged quasar with an optical Einstein ring candidate: 1RXS J113155.4–123155 p. L43

D. Sluse, J. Surdej, J.-F. Claeskens, D. Hutsemékers, C. Jean, F. Courbin, T. Nakos, M. Billeres and S. V. Khmil

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Far-infrared detection of OH towards Sagittarius B2 p. L47

E. T. Polehampton, J. M. Brown, B. M. Swinyard and J.-P. Baluteau

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Astrophysical processes

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Elementary reactions of the phenyl radical, CH, with CH isomers, and of benzene, CH, with atomic carbon in extraterrestrial environments p. 385

R. I. Kaiser, L. Vereecken, J. Peeters, H. F. Bettinger, P. v. R. Schleyer and H. F. Schaefer III

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Cosmology (including clusters of galaxies)

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Back to the primordial Universe by a Monge–Ampère–Kantorovich optimization scheme p. 393

R. Mohayaee, U. Frisch, S. Matarrese and A. Sobolevskiĭ

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Morphology and luminosity segregation of galaxies in nearby loose groups p. 403

M. Girardi, E. Rigoni, F. Mardirossian and M. Mezzetti

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BVRI surface photometry of mixed morphology pairs of galaxies - I. The first data set p. 415

A. Franco-Balderas, H. M. Hernández-Toledo, D. Dultzin-Hacyan and G. García-Ruiz

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Atomic gas far away from the Virgo cluster core galaxy NGC 4388 - A possible link to isolated star formation in the Virgo cluster? p. 427

B. Vollmer and W. Huchtmeier

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The near-infrared properties of the host galaxies of radio quasars p. 435

S. F. Sánchez and J. I. González-Serrano

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A study of H I-selected galaxies in the Hercules cluster p. 453

J. Iglesias-Páramo, W. van Driel, P.-A. Duc, P. Papaderos, J. M. Vílchez, V. Cayatte, C. Balkowski, K. O'Neil, J. Dickey, H. Hernández and T. X. Thuan

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Deep XMM-Newton observation of a northern LMC field I. Selected X-ray sources p. 471

F. Haberl, K. Dennerl and W. Pietsch

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XMM-Newton observations reveal AGN in apparently normal galaxies p. 483

P. Severgnini, A. Caccianiga, V. Braito, R. Della Ceca, T. Maccacaro, A. Wolter, K. Sekiguchi, T. Sasaki, M. Yoshida, M. Akiyama et al. (5 more)

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An Hα survey aiming at the detection of extraplanar diffuse ionized gas in halos of edge-on spiral galaxies - I. How common are gaseous halos among non-starburst galaxies? p. 493

J. Rossa and R.-J. Dettmar

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An Hα survey aiming at the detection of extraplanar diffuse ionized gas in halos of edge–on spiral galaxies - II. The Hα survey atlas and catalog p. 505

J. Rossa and R.-J. Dettmar

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ISO observations of four active galaxies p. 527

M. Dennefeld, T. Boller, D. Rigopoulou and H. W. W. Spoon

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The Hamburg/RASS Catalogue of optical identifications - Northern high-galactic latitude ROSAT Bright Source Catalogue X-ray sources p. 535

F.-J. Zickgraf, D. Engels, H.-J. Hagen, D. Reimers and W. Voges

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A hard medium survey with ASCA - IV. The radio-loud type 2 QSO AX J0843+2942 p. 555

R. Della Ceca, V. Braito, V. Beckmann, A. Caccianiga, I. Cagnoni, I. M. Gioia, T. Maccacaro, P. Severgnini and A. Wolter

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PKS 0537-441: Extended [O II] emission and a binary QSO? p. 565

J. Heidt, K. Jäger, K. Nilsson, U. Hopp, J. W. Fried and E. Sutorius

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Multi-frequency study of the B3-VLA sample - III. Polarisation properties p. 579

U. Klein, K.-H. Mack, L. Gregorini and M. Vigotti

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Galaxies in southern bright star fields - I. Near-infrared imaging p. 593

Andrew J. Baker, Richard I. Davies, M. D. Lehnert, N. A. Thatte, W. D. Vacca, O. R. Hainaut, M. J. Jarvis, G. K. Miley and H. J. A. Röttgering

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Interstellar and circumstellar matter

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Launching jets from the boundary layer of accretion disks in young stellar objects p. 603

N. Soker and O. Regev

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Stellar structure and evolution

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Luminous binary supersoft X-ray sources: Optical colors and absolute magnitudes p. 613

V. Šimon

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Studies on stellar rotation - III. An improvement of the treatment of the brightening distribution of rotating and tidally distorted stars p. 623

A. Claret

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X-ray variability of Pleiades late-type stars as observed with the ROSAT-PSPC p. 629

A. Marino, G. Micela, G. Peres and S. Sciortino

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The Crab pulsar and its red knot in the near-infrared p. 639

J. Sollerman

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The Vela pulsar in the near-infrared p. 645

Yu. A. Shibanov, A. B. Koptsevich, J. Sollerman and P. Lundqvist

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Numerical simulations of the pulsating DB white dwarf GD 358 p. 657

C. Weidner and D. Koester

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On the statistical implication of timing noise for pulsar braking index p. 667

A. E. Chukwude

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Properties of galactic B[e] supergiants II. HDE 327083 p. 673

A. S. Miroshnichenko, H. Levato, K. S. Bjorkman and M. Grosso

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A fourth component in the young multiple system V 773 Tauri p. 685

J. Woitas

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Rotation in Globular Cluster stars - Turn-off and subgiant stars in NGC 104, NGC 6397 and NGC 6752 p. 691

S. Lucatello and R. G. Gratton

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Resolved polarization changes across Hα in the classical T Tauri star RY Tauri p. 703

Jorick S. Vink, J. E. Drew, T. J. Harries, R. D. Oudmaijer and Y. C. Unruh

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The Sun

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Eclipse observations of high-frequency oscillations in active region coronal loops p. 709

A. C. Katsiyannis, D. R. Williams, R. T. J. Mc Ateer, P. T. Gallagher, F. P. Keenan and F. Murtagh

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Can ion-neutral damping help to form spicules? p. 715

S. P. James, R. Erdélyi and B. De Pontieu

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Atmospheric oscillations in solar magnetic flux tubes - II. Excitation by transverse tube waves and random pulses p. 725

Z. E. Musielak and P. Ulmschneider

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On the generation of Alfvén waves by solar energetic particles p. 735

R. Vainio

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Atomic, molecular, and nuclear data

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Trends in E2 and M1 transition rates between 3p and 3p levels in 3s 3p systems p. 741

E. Charro, S. López-Ferrero and I. Martín

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Close encounters of asteroids before and during the ESA GAIA mission p. 751

A. Fienga, J.-F. Bange, A. Bec-Borsenberger and W. Thuillot

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Experimental transition probabilities and Stark shifts in O III and O IV spectra p. 759

S. Djeniže, S. Bukvić, A. Srećković and S. Kalezić

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Astronomical instrumentation

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A Fourier-based method for the restoration of chopped and nodded images p. 765

M. Bertero, P. Boccacci, A. Custo, C. De Mol and M. Robberto

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