Astronomy & Astrophysics (A&A)

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Interaction of interplanetary dust particles with magnetic clouds - Effects on the orbital evolution p. L41

M. Wagner and R. F. Wimmer-Schweingruber

Published online: 04 November 2009

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/200913136

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GRB 090426: the farthest short gamma-ray burst? p. L45

L. A. Antonelli, P. D'Avanzo, R. Perna, L. Amati, S. Covino, S. Cutini, V. D'Elia, S. Gallozzi, A. Grazian, E. Palazzi et al. (16 more)

Published online: 04 November 2009

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/200913062

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Gravitational lenses as cosmic rulers: , from time delays and velocity dispersions p. L49

D. Paraficz and J. Hjorth

Published online: 04 November 2009

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/200913307

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Simulation of a flux emergence event and comparison with observations by Hinode p. L53

L. Yelles Chaouche, M. C. M. Cheung, S. K. Solanki, M. Schüssler and A. Lagg

Published online: 04 November 2009

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/200913181

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Exploring the inner region of type 1 AGNs with the Keck interferometer p. L57

M. Kishimoto, S. F. Hönig, R. Antonucci, T. Kotani, R. Barvainis, K. R. W. Tristram and G. Weigelt

Published online: 04 November 2009

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/200913512

Astrophysical processes

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Decay of the toroidal field in magnetically driven jets p. 1203

R. Moll

Published online: 16 July 2009

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/200912266

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Quenching of the strong aperiodic accretion disk variability at the magnetospheric boundary p. 1211

M. Revnivtsev, E. Churazov, K. Postnov and S. Tsygankov

Published online: 01 October 2009

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/200912317

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One-dimensional pair cascade emission in gamma-ray binaries - An upper-limit to cascade emission at superior conjunction in LS 5039 p. 1217

B. Cerutti, G. Dubus and G. Henri

Published online: 01 October 2009

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/200912494

Cosmology (including clusters of galaxies)

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Very deep spectroscopy of the Coma cluster line of sight: exploring new territories p. 1225

C. Adami, V. Le Brun, A. Biviano, F. Durret, F. Lamareille, R. Pelló, O. Ilbert, A. Mazure, R. Trilling and M. P. Ulmer

Published online: 01 October 2009

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/200912228

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A numerical code for the solution of the Kompaneets equation in cosmological context p. 1243

P. Procopio and C. Burigana

Published online: 08 October 2009

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/200912061

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Radio halos in nearby (z < 0.4) clusters of galaxies p. 1257

G. Giovannini, A. Bonafede, L. Feretti, F. Govoni, M. Murgia, F. Ferrari and G. Monti

Published online: 08 October 2009

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/200912667

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Local dark matter and dark energy as estimated on a scale of ~1 Mpc in a self-consistent way p. 1271

A. D. Chernin, P. Teerikorpi, M. J. Valtonen, V. P. Dolgachev, L. M. Domozhilova and G. G. Byrd

Published online: 01 October 2009

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/200912762

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Black hole growth and starburst activity at z = 0.6–4 in the Chandra Deep Field South - Host galaxies properties of obscured AGN p. 1277

M. Brusa, F. Fiore, P. Santini, A. Grazian, A. Comastri, G. Zamorani, G. Hasinger, A. Merloni, F. Civano, A. Fontana and V. Mainieri

Published online: 01 October 2009

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/200912261

Extragalactic astronomy

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Mapping the starburst in blue compact dwarf galaxies - PMAS integral field spectroscopy of Mrk 1418 p. 1291

L. M. Cairós, N. Caon, C. Zurita, C. Kehrig, P. Weilbacher and M. Roth

Published online: 01 October 2009

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/200811576

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The ring galaxy HRG 54 103: a first study p. 1303

M. Faúndez-Abans, I. F. Fernandes, M. de Oliveira-Abans, P. C. R. Poppe and V. A. F. Martin

Published online: 24 September 2009

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/200811045

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The Hubble sequence: just a vestige of merger events? p. 1313

F. Hammer, H. Flores, M. Puech, Y. B. Yang, E. Athanassoula, M. Rodrigues and R. Delgado

Published online: 01 October 2009

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/200912115

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The size-density relation of extragalactic H II regions p. 1327

L. K. Hunt and H. Hirashita

Published online: 01 October 2009

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/200912020

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Accurate classification of 17 AGNs detected with Swift/BAT p. 1345

P. Parisi, N. Masetti, E. Jiménez-Bailón, V. Chavushyan, A. Malizia, R. Landi, M. Molina, M. Fiocchi, E. Palazzi, L. Bassani et al. (9 more)

Published online: 01 October 2009

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/200912931

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Quasar induced galaxy formation: a new paradigm? p. 1359

D. Elbaz, K. Jahnke, E. Pantin, D. Le Borgne and G. Letawe

Published online: 15 October 2009

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/200912848

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HST/ACS colour–magnitude diagrams of M 31 globular clusters p. 1375

S. Perina, L. Federici, M. Bellazzini, C. Cacciari, F. Fusi Pecci and S. Galleti

Published online: 08 October 2009

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/200912587

Galactic structure, stellar clusters, and populations

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Radial distribution of the multiple stellar populations in Centauri p. 1393

A. Bellini, G. Piotto, L. R. Bedin, I. R. King, J. Anderson, A. P. Milone and Y. Momany

Published online: 01 October 2009

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/200912757

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The evolution of the stellar mass function in star clusters p. 1409

J. M. D. Kruijssen

Published online: 04 November 2009

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/200913325

Interstellar and circumstellar matter

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APEX-CHAMP⁺ high-J CO observations of low-mass young stellar objects - II. Distribution and origin of warm molecular gas p. 1425

T. A. van Kempen, E. F. van Dishoeck, R. Güsten, L. E. Kristensen, P. Schilke, M. R. Hogerheijde, W. Boland, K. M. Menten and F. Wyrowski

Published online: 27 August 2009

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/200912507

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Extremely high velocity gas from the massive young stellar objects in IRAS 17233-3606 p. 1443

S. Leurini, C. Codella, L. A. Zapata, A. Belloche, T. Stanke, F. Wyrowski, P. Schilke, K. M. Menten and R. Güsten

Published online: 08 October 2009

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/200912783

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Odin observations of water in molecular outflows and shocks p. 1455

P. Bjerkeli, R. Liseau, M. Olberg, E. Falgarone, U. Frisk, Å. Hjalmarson, A. Klotz, B. Larsson, A. O. H. Olofsson, G. Olofsson et al. (2 more)

Published online: 08 October 2009

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/200912064

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7 mm continuum observations of ultra compact HII regions p. 1467

P. Leto, G. Umana, C. Trigilio, C. S. Buemi, S. Dolei, P. Manzitto, L. Cerrigone and C. Siringo

Published online: 01 October 2009

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/200911894

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Dissecting an intermediate-mass protostar - Chemical differentiation in IC 1396 N p. 1475

A. Fuente, A. Castro-Carrizo, T. Alonso-Albi, M. T. Beltrán, R. Neri, C. Ceccarelli, B. Lefloch, C. Codella and P. Caselli

Published online: 08 October 2009

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/200912623

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Young stars and protostellar cores near NGC 2023 p. 1485

B. Mookerjea, G. Sandell, T. H. Jarrett and J. P. McMullin

Published online: 24 September 2009

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/200912550

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Can gas in young debris disks be constrained by their radial brightness profiles? p. 1503

A. V. Krivov, F. Herrmann, A. Brandeker and P. Thébault

Published online: 24 September 2009

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/200912917

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A self-consistent stellar and 3D nebular model of planetary nebula IC 418 p. 1517

C. Morisset and L. Georgiev

Published online: 08 October 2009

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/200912413

Stellar structure and evolution

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The origin of the supersoft X-ray-optical/UV flux anticorrelation in the symbiotic binary AG Draconis p. 1531

A. Skopal, M. Sekeráš, R. González-Riestra and R. F. Viotti

Published online: 01 October 2009

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/200811418

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Uncertainties on the theoretical predictions for classical Cepheid pulsational quantities p. 1541

G. Valle, M. Marconi, S. Degl'Innocenti and P. G. Prada Moroni

Published online: 01 October 2009

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/200912004

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Bolometric luminosity variations in the luminous blue variable AFGL2298 p. 1555

J. S. Clark, P. A. Crowther, V. M. Larionov, I. A. Steele, B. W. Ritchie and A. A. Arkharov

Published online: 15 September 2009

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/200912358

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The binary nature of the Galactic centre X-ray source CXOGC J174536.1-285638 p. 1567

J. S. Clark, P. A. Crowther and V. J. Mikles

Published online: 08 September 2009

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/200912799

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Very low-mass white dwarfs with a C–O core p. 1575

P. G. Prada Moroni and O. Straniero

Published online: 01 October 2009

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/200912847

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A VLT/FLAMES survey for massive binaries in Westerlund 1 - I. First observations of luminous evolved stars p. 1585

B. W. Ritchie, J. S. Clark, I. Negueruela and P. A. Crowther

Published online: 24 September 2009

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/200912686

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Spectroscopic monitoring of the luminous blue variable Westerlund1-243 from 2002 to 2009 p. 1597

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

Published online: 08 October 2009

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/200912986

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The double degenerate LP 400-22 revisited p. 1613

S. Vennes, A. Kawka, T. R. Vaccaro and N. M. Silvestri

Published online: 08 October 2009

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/200912955

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Evolutionary implications of the new triple-α nuclear reaction rate for low mass stars p. 1617

A. Dotter and B. Paxton

Published online: 24 September 2009

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/200912998

Stellar atmospheres

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Helium lines in RR Lyrae spectra p. 1621

G. W. Preston

Published online: 01 October 2009

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/200912984

The Sun

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Morphological and dynamical properties of small-scale chromospheric features deduced from IBIS observations p. 1625

L. Contarino, F. Zuccarello, P. Romano, D. Spadaro and I. Ermolli

Published online: 01 October 2009

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/200912517

Planets and planetary systems

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Rotation of rigid Venus: a complete precession-nutation model p. 1635

L. Cottereau and J. Souchay

Published online: 01 October 2009

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/200912174

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Tohoku-Hiroshima-Nagoya planetary spectra library: a method for characterizing planets in the visible to near infrared p. 1649

R. Lundock, T. Ichikawa, H. Okita, K. Kurita, K. S. Kawabata, M. Uemura, T. Yamashita, T. Ohsugi, S. Sato and M. Kino

Published online: 24 September 2009

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/200912581

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A substellar component orbiting the F-star 30 Arietis B p. 1659

E. W. Guenther, M. Hartmann, M. Esposito, A. P. Hatzes, F. Cusano and D. Gandolfi

Published online: 24 September 2009

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/200912112

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Spitzer observations of the asteroid-comet transition object and potential spacecraft target 107P (4015) Wilson-Harrington p. 1667

J. Licandro, H. Campins, M. Kelley, Y. Fernández, M. Delbó, W. T. Reach, O. Groussin, P. L. Lamy, I. Toth, M. F. A'Hearn et al. (8 more)

Published online: 08 October 2009

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/200913116

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Elemental abundances and minimum mass of heavy elements in the envelope of HD 189733b p. 1671

O. Mousis, J. I. Lunine, G. Tinetti, C. A. Griffith, A. P. Showman, Y. Alibert and J.-P. Beaulieu

Published online: 01 October 2009

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/200913160

Celestial mechanics and astrometry

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INPOP08, a 4-D planetary ephemeris: from asteroid and time-scale computations to ESA Mars Express and Venus Express contributions p. 1675

A. Fienga, J. Laskar, T. Morley, H. Manche, P. Kuchynka, C. Le Poncin-Lafitte, F. Budnik, M. Gastineau and L. Somenzi

Published online: 17 September 2009

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/200911755

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Celestial pole offsets from lunar laser ranging and comparison with VLBI p. 1687

W. Zerhouni and N. Capitaine

Published online: 01 October 2009

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/200912644

Atomic, molecular, and nuclear data

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Stark broadening measurements of low-intensity singly and doubly ionized xenon spectral lines p. 1697

R. J. Peláez, M. Ćirišan, S. Djurović, J. A. Aparicio and S. Mar

Published online: 01 October 2009

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/200912832

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The hyperfine structure of the inversion-rotation transition J_K = of NH₃ investigated by Lamb-dip spectroscopy p. 1707

G. Cazzoli, L. Dore and C. Puzzarini

Published online: 08 October 2009

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/200912950

Astronomical instrumentation

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Nonlinear deconvolution with deblending: a new analyzing technique for spectroscopy p. 1711

C. Sennhauser, S. V. Berdyugina and D. M. Fluri

Published online: 01 October 2009

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/200912467

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Intensity interferometry and the second-order correlation function in astrophysics p. 1719

C. Foellmi

Published online: 24 September 2009

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/200911739

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Light curve analysis of variable stars using Fourier decomposition and principal component analysis p. 1729

S. Deb and H. P. Singh

Published online: 01 October 2009

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/200912851

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The PRIMA fringe sensor unit p. 1739

J. Sahlmann, S. Ménardi, R. Abuter, M. Accardo, S. Mottini and F. Delplancke

Published online: 08 October 2009

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/200912271

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Strehl-constrained iterative blind deconvolution for post-adaptive-optics data p. 1759

G. Desiderà and M. Carbillet

Published online: 08 October 2009

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/200912913

Catalogs and data

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The Nainital-Cape Survey - III. A search for pulsational variability in chemically peculiar stars p. 1763

S. Joshi, D. L. Mary, N. K. Chakradhari, S. K. Tiwari and C. Billaud

Published online: 08 October 2009

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/200912382

Numerical methods and codes

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Application of the coupled escape probability method to spherical clouds p. 1785

Y. J. Yun, Y.-S. Park and S. H. Lee

Published online: 24 September 2009

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/200912800

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Analysis of galaxy spectral energy distributions from far-UV to far-IR with CIGALE: studying a SINGS test sample p. 1793

S. Noll, D. Burgarella, E. Giovannoli, V. Buat, D. Marcillac and J. C. Muñoz-Mateos

Published online: 24 September 2009

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/200912497

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A conjugate gradient method for solving the non-LTE line radiation transfer problem p. 1815

F. Paletou and E. Anterrieu

Published online: 01 October 2009

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/200912491

Astronomy & Astrophysics

Volume 507 / No 3 (December I 2009)

Letters

Interaction of interplanetary dust particles with magnetic clouds - Effects on the orbital evolution p. L41

GRB 090426: the farthest short gamma-ray burst? p. L45

Gravitational lenses as cosmic rulers: , from time delays and velocity dispersions p. L49

Simulation of a flux emergence event and comparison with observations by Hinode p. L53

Exploring the inner region of type 1 AGNs with the Keck interferometer p. L57

Astrophysical processes

Decay of the toroidal field in magnetically driven jets p. 1203

Quenching of the strong aperiodic accretion disk variability at the magnetospheric boundary p. 1211

One-dimensional pair cascade emission in gamma-ray binaries - An upper-limit to cascade emission at superior conjunction in LS 5039 p. 1217

Cosmology (including clusters of galaxies)

Very deep spectroscopy of the Coma cluster line of sight: exploring new territories p. 1225

A numerical code for the solution of the Kompaneets equation in cosmological context p. 1243

Radio halos in nearby (z < 0.4) clusters of galaxies p. 1257

Local dark matter and dark energy as estimated on a scale of ~1 Mpc in a self-consistent way p. 1271

Black hole growth and starburst activity at z = 0.6–4 in the Chandra Deep Field South - Host galaxies properties of obscured AGN p. 1277

Extragalactic astronomy

Mapping the starburst in blue compact dwarf galaxies - PMAS integral field spectroscopy of Mrk 1418 p. 1291

The ring galaxy HRG 54 103: a first study p. 1303

The Hubble sequence: just a vestige of merger events? p. 1313

The size-density relation of extragalactic H II regions p. 1327

Accurate classification of 17 AGNs detected with Swift/BAT p. 1345

Quasar induced galaxy formation: a new paradigm? p. 1359

HST/ACS colour–magnitude diagrams of M 31 globular clusters p. 1375

Galactic structure, stellar clusters, and populations

Radial distribution of the multiple stellar populations in Centauri p. 1393

The evolution of the stellar mass function in star clusters p. 1409

Interstellar and circumstellar matter

APEX-CHAMP+ high-J CO observations of low-mass young stellar objects - II. Distribution and origin of warm molecular gas p. 1425

Extremely high velocity gas from the massive young stellar objects in IRAS 17233-3606 p. 1443

Odin observations of water in molecular outflows and shocks p. 1455

7 mm continuum observations of ultra compact HII regions p. 1467

Dissecting an intermediate-mass protostar - Chemical differentiation in IC 1396 N p. 1475

Young stars and protostellar cores near NGC 2023 p. 1485

Can gas in young debris disks be constrained by their radial brightness profiles? p. 1503

A self-consistent stellar and 3D nebular model of planetary nebula IC 418 p. 1517

Stellar structure and evolution

The origin of the supersoft X-ray-optical/UV flux anticorrelation in the symbiotic binary AG Draconis p. 1531

Uncertainties on the theoretical predictions for classical Cepheid pulsational quantities p. 1541

Bolometric luminosity variations in the luminous blue variable AFGL2298 p. 1555

The binary nature of the Galactic centre X-ray source CXOGC J174536.1-285638 p. 1567

Very low-mass white dwarfs with a C–O core p. 1575

A VLT/FLAMES survey for massive binaries in Westerlund 1 - I. First observations of luminous evolved stars p. 1585

Spectroscopic monitoring of the luminous blue variable Westerlund1-243 from 2002 to 2009 p. 1597

The double degenerate LP 400-22 revisited p. 1613

Evolutionary implications of the new triple-α nuclear reaction rate for low mass stars p. 1617

Stellar atmospheres

Helium lines in RR Lyrae spectra p. 1621

The Sun

Morphological and dynamical properties of small-scale chromospheric features deduced from IBIS observations p. 1625

Planets and planetary systems

Rotation of rigid Venus: a complete precession-nutation model p. 1635

Tohoku-Hiroshima-Nagoya planetary spectra library: a method for characterizing planets in the visible to near infrared p. 1649

A substellar component orbiting the F-star 30 Arietis B p. 1659

Spitzer observations of the asteroid-comet transition object and potential spacecraft target 107P (4015) Wilson-Harrington p. 1667

Elemental abundances and minimum mass of heavy elements in the envelope of HD 189733b p. 1671

Celestial mechanics and astrometry

INPOP08, a 4-D planetary ephemeris: from asteroid and time-scale computations to ESA Mars Express and Venus Express contributions p. 1675

Celestial pole offsets from lunar laser ranging and comparison with VLBI p. 1687

Atomic, molecular, and nuclear data

Stark broadening measurements of low-intensity singly and doubly ionized xenon spectral lines p. 1697

The hyperfine structure of the inversion-rotation transition JK = of NH3 investigated by Lamb-dip spectroscopy p. 1707

Astronomical instrumentation

Nonlinear deconvolution with deblending: a new analyzing technique for spectroscopy p. 1711

Intensity interferometry and the second-order correlation function in astrophysics p. 1719

Light curve analysis of variable stars using Fourier decomposition and principal component analysis p. 1729

The PRIMA fringe sensor unit p. 1739

Strehl-constrained iterative blind deconvolution for post-adaptive-optics data p. 1759

Catalogs and data

The Nainital-Cape Survey - III. A search for pulsational variability in chemically peculiar stars p. 1763

Numerical methods and codes

Application of the coupled escape probability method to spherical clouds p. 1785

Analysis of galaxy spectral energy distributions from far-UV to far-IR with CIGALE: studying a SINGS test sample p. 1793

A conjugate gradient method for solving the non-LTE line radiation transfer problem p. 1815

APEX-CHAMP⁺ high-J CO observations of low-mass young stellar objects - II. Distribution and origin of warm molecular gas p. 1425

The hyperfine structure of the inversion-rotation transition J_K = of NH₃ investigated by Lamb-dip spectroscopy p. 1707