Volume 292 1994 Contents Letters to the Editor Results of the ESO-SEST Key Programme: CO in the Magellanic Clouds. IV. Physical properties of molecular A submillimeter protostar near LkKHa 198 clouds in the Small Magellanic Cloud Sandell G., Weintraub D.A. Ll Lequeux J., Le Bourlot J., Pineau des Foréts G., Roueff Are late B-type stars intrinsic X-ray emitters? E., Boulanger F., Rubio M. Berghofer T:W., Schmitt J.H.M.M. LS A search for dark matter in elliptical galaxies: radially Thermal infrared imaging of GGD 27-IRS. The active pre- extended spectroscopic observations for six objects main sequence star revealed Bertin G., Bertola F., Buson L.M., Danziger I.J., Aspin C., Puxley P.J., Blanco P.R., Pifia R.K., Pickup Dejonghe H., Sadler E.M., Saglia R.P., de Zeeuw P.T., D.A., Paterson M.J., Sylvester J., Laird D.C., Bridger Zeilinger W.W. A., Daly P.N., Griffin J.L. L9 The age of GHz-peaked-spectrum radio sources Extended soft X-ray emission in the Seyfert2 galaxy Carvalho J.C. NGC 4388 discovered with the ROSAT HRI ROSAT PSPC observation of the X-ray faint early-type Matt G., Piro L., Antonelli L.A., Fink H.H., Meurs galaxy NGC 5866 E.J.A., Perola G.C. L13 Pellegrini S. Black-hole stellar accretion in active galactic nuclei Hameury J.-M., King A.R., Lasota J.-P., Auvergne M. Multifrequency observations of the radio continuum emission from NGC 253. I. Magnetic fields and rotation measures in Extragalactic astronomy the bar and halo Beck R., Carilli C.L., Holdaway M.A., Klein U. Multifrequency windows on spiral galaxies. IV. Gas content Improved /-band CCD photometry of NGC 3379 and com- and star formation in the Virgo cluster parison with a violent relaxation model Boselli A. Sodemann M., Thomsen B. Photoionization in elliptical galaxies by old stars Erratum Further observational evidence that Binette L., Magris C.G., Stasinska G., Bruzual A.G. MG J0414+0534 is a gravitational mirage Structure and age oft he radiogalaxy 3C 435A (z = 0.471) with Angonin-Willaime M.-C., Vanderriest C., Hammer F., the integral field spectrograph TIGER Magain P. Rocca-Volmerange B., Adam G., Ferruit P., Bacon R. Non-polytropic model with galactic winds for clusters of galaxies Fusco-Femiano R. Synchrotron emission from bent shocked relativistic jets. Galactic structure and dynamics III. Aberration of light and time delay effects On the non-existence of some heterogeneous equivalents of Gomez J.L., Alberdi A., Marcaide J.M., Marscher ellipsoidal Dedekind figures A.P., Travis J.P. Chambat F. The active environment of QSO HE 1029-1401 Diffuse continuum gamma rays from the Galaxy observed by Wisotzki L. COMPTEL The very red halo of the cD galaxy in A 3284 Strong A.W., Bennett K., Bloemen H., Diehl R., Molinari E., Buzzoni A., Chincarini G., Pedrana M.D. Hermsen W., Morris D., Schénfelder V., Stacy J.G., Gaseous cocoons around compact steep spectrum sources de Vries C., Varendorff M., Winkler C., Youssefi G. Mantovani F., Junor W., Fanti R., Padrielli L., Saikia CCD uvbyf photometry of faint stars. Il. Reddening in six D.J. fields in the Galaxy Limits on the short-timescale near-infrared variability of Jonch-Sorensen H. Seyfert 1 nuclei Starving accretion disks in the center of galaxies: the examples Hunt L.K., Zhekov S., Salvati M., Mannucci F., Stanga of Sagittarius A* and M 31 R.M. Falcke H., Heinrich O.M. IV Volume Index 292 Stellar clusters and associations Spectroscopic analysis of hot binaries. II. The components of Y Cygni Spectroscopy of the young cluster Blanco | Simon K.P., Sturm E., Fiedler A. Panagi P.M., O'Dell M.A., Collier Cameron A., Robinson R.D. ROSAT X-ray observations of ten cataclysmic variables van Teeseling A., Verbunt F. Three periodicities in a 98-year light curve of the symbiotic star Z Andromedae Formation, structure and evolution of stars Formiggini L., Leibowitz E.M. Multiwavelength observations of RV Tauri stars. IV. SX Cen- Multi-site continuous spectroscopy. II. Spectrophotometry tauri and energy budget of exceptional white-light flares on Shenton M., Evans A., Albinson J.S., Barrett P., HR 1099 from the MUSICOS 89 campaign Davies J.K., Goldsmith M.J., Hutchinson M.G., Laney Foing B.H., Char S., Ayres T., Catala C., Neff J.E., D., Maddison R.C. Zhai D.S., Catalano S., Cutispoto G., Jankov S., Dynamics of nearby multiple stars. The a Centauri system Rodono M., Simon T., Akan C., Aslanov A., Avellar Anosova J., Orlov V.V., Pavlova N.A. P., Baudrand J., Beust H., Cao H., Chatzichristou H., Basic system parameters and a more general spot solution of Cuby J.G., Czarny J., de la Reza R., Dreux M., Felenbok P., Ferlet R., Frasca A., Floquet M., Ghosh the SV Camelopardalis light curve Patkés L., Hempelmann A. K., Guo Z., Guérin J., Hao J.X., Houdebine E.R., Huang L., Hubert A.M., Hubert H., Huovelin J., Hron A-quenching as the nonlinearity in stellar-turbulence dyna- J., Ibanoglu C., Jiang S., Keskin V., Lagrange-Henri mos A.M., Lecontel J.M., Li Q., Mavridis L., Nolthenius Kitchatinov L.L., Riidiger G., Kiiker M. R., Petrov P., Savanov I., Scherbakov A., Tuominen L., Nonlinear pulsations of the RV Tauri stars Vidal-Madjar A., Zhang R., Zhang X. Fokin A.B. COMPTEL upper limits on gamma-ray line emission from X-ray emission from Herbig Ae/Be stars: a ROSAT survey Supernova 1991T Zinnecker H., Preibisch T. Lichti G.G., Bennett K., den Herder J.W., Diehl R., The f Pictoris phenomenon among young stars. I. The case of Morris D., Ryan J., Schénfelder V., Steinle H., Strong the Herbig Ae star UX Orionis A.W., Winkler C. Grinin V.P., Thé P.S., de Winter D., Giampapa M., Rostopchina A.N., Tambovtseva L.V., van den Ancker M.E. Stellar atmospheres High time resolution observations of Cygnus X-3 with Fourier-transform spectroscopy and near-infrared variability EXOSAT of y Carinae Berger M., van der Klis M. Altamore A., Maillard J.-P., Viotti R. Stability of the multimode pulsation in the 6 Cephei-type Ultraviolet and optical spectroscopy of a B supergiant star in variable 12 (DD) Lacertae M 31 Pigulski A. Bianchi L., Lamers H.J.G.L.M., Hutchings J.B., Applicability of the Rossby number in activity-rotation Massey P., Kudritzki R., Herrero A., Lennon D.J. relations for dwarfs and giants Line profiles and intensity maps from an axi-symmetric Stepien K. radiative wind model for Be stars Erratum The nature of the F str 44077 stars. III. Spectroscopy Stee P., de Aratjo F.X. of the barium dwarfs and other CP stars Analysis of BD +33°2642: a newly detected planetary nebula North P., Berthet S., Lanz T. in the galactic halo and its central star Fourier analysis of short-period SMC Cepheids: a comparison Napiwotzki R., Heber U., Képpen J. with Galactic Cepheids Near-infrared spectroscopy and imaging of Herbig-Haro Buchler J.R., Moskalik P. objects Detecting red stellar companions to hot subdwarfs with CCD Gredel R. imaging Extended mid-infrared emission around Herbig Ae/Be Thejll P., Theissen A., Jimenez R. stars Massive close binary evolution in the Galaxy and in the Prusti T., Natta A., Palla F. Magellanic Clouds Multidimensional radiative transfer with multilevel atoms. de Loore C., Vanbeveren D. I. ALI method with preconditioning of the rate equations Coupled-mode equations end amplitude equations for nona- Auer L., Fabiani Bendicho P., Trujillo Bueno J. diabatic, nonradial oscillations of stars Observations and analyses of the S VI. 1975, 4 1993 A lines in Van Hoolst T. the JUE ultraviolet spectra of WN stars Time resolved spectroscopy of the dwarf nova VY Aquarii in Nugis T., Willis A.J. superoutburst and quiescence Augusteijn T. The hot contact binary XZ Leonis Diffuse matter in space (including Hl regions and plane- Niarchos P.G., Hoffmann M., Duerbeck H.W. tary nebulae) Pt 1: a Halo symbiotic binary not related to the globular Study of L 1340: a star-forming cloud in Cassiopeia cluster NGC 6401 Kun M., Obayashi A., Sato F., Yonekura Y., Fukui Y., Munari U., Lattanzi M.G., Bragaglia A. Balazs L.G., Abraham P., Szabados L., Kelemen J. Volume Index 292 Optical and 21-cm observations of high-velocity gas towards Instruments, data processing, and computational meth- subdwarfs in the halo and early-type stars in the disk ods Centurién M., Vladilo G., de Boer K.S., Herbstmeier Instrumental polarization in the focal plane of telescopes. U., Schwarz U.J. Il. Effects induced by seeing The influence of free electrons on the evolution of circular Sanchez Almeida J. polarization in OH masers Field D., Gray M.D. Abstracts of articles which have been published in A&A The velocity field of the L 1551 IRS 5 jet Supplement Series 107, No. 2 Fridlund C.V.M., Liseau R. Steps toward interstellar silicate mineralogy. I. Laboratory results of a silicate glass of mean cosmic composition Second Reference Dictionary of the Nomenclature of Celes- Jéiger C., Mutschke H., Begemann B., Dorschner J., tial Objects (Solar System excluded) Henning T. Lortet M.-C., Borde S., Ochsenbein F. Periodicities in the optical brightness variations of the inter- mediate polar TV Columbae The Sun Augusteijn T., Heemskerk M.H.M., Zwarthoed G.A.A., van Paradijs J. A determination of the solar abundance of iron from faint Fe! Photographic observations of visual double stars lines Jasinta D.M.D., Soegiartini E. Milford P.N., O’Mara B.J., Ross J.E. Wavefront sensing and image restoration from focused and Influence of physical effects on the solar p-mode spectrum defocused solar images Gabriel M. Léfdahl M.G., Scharmer G.B. Thermal equilibria in solar coronal magnetic loops: gravita- New HI observations for possible group member galaxies tional considerations Garcia A.M., Bottinelli L., Garnier R., Gouguenheim Steele C.D.C., Priest E.R. L., Paturel G. Theoretical correlations between prominence plasma para- Photometric CCD sequences in 7 southern Abell clusters meters and the emitted radiation Cunow B., Wargau W.F. Heinzel P., Gouttebroze P., Vial J.-C. A CCD survey of galaxies. III. Observations with the Loiano Local waves in a magnetic arcade embedded in the solar 1.5 m telescope corona Gavazzi G., Randone I. Cadez V.M., Ballester J.L. Stark broadening of spectral lines of multicharged ions of astrophysical interest. X. Ne VIII and NaIx Dimitrijevié M.S., Sahal-Bréchot S. The solar system Elemental abundance studies of CP stars: The silicon star Current meteor production of comet P/Swift—Tuttle 1992t HD 43819 and the CP star HD 147550 Fulle M., Bohm C., Mengoli G., Muzzi F., Orlandi S., Lopez-Garcia Z., Adelman S.J. Sette G. Broad band JHK infrared photometry of an extended sample Particle acceleration by an interplanetary shock-pair seen at of late-type dwarfs and subdwarfs Ulysses at 3.15 AU Alonso A., Arribas §., Martinez-Roger C. Tappin S.J., Roelof E.C., Lanzerotti L.J. The Spacelab-1 Very Wide Field Survey of UV-excess objects. Analysis of identified iron meteoroids: possible relation with IV. The performance of the instrument in combination with M-type Earth-crossing asteroids? optical photometry as a means of identifying stars with Re Velle D.O., Ceplecha Z. peculiar properties The solar wind termination shock in the presence of cosmic Tobin W., Viton M., Sivan J.-P. rays Correlated long-term light, colour and spectral variations of Ziemkiewicz J. the Be star x Draconis Juza K., Harmanec P., Bozié H., Pavlovski K., Ziznovsky J., Tarasov A.E., Horn J., Koubsky P. Physical and chemical processes Counts and colours of faint stars in 5 fields near the North Galactic Pole Innershell photoionization of atomic neon: NeIil and NeIv Infante L. line production in AGN plasmas Petrini D., Farias G.A. Erratum Near-infrared and optical broadband surface pho- tometry of 86 face-on disk dominated galaxies. I. Selection, The many incarnations of accretion disk dynamos: mixed observations and data reduction parities and chaos for large dynamo numbers de Jong R.S., van der Kruit P.C. Torkelsson U., Brandenburg A. Non-linear structures in self-gravitating disks Abstracts of articles which have been published in A&A Li X.-Q., Zhang H. Supplement Series 107, No. 3 Magnetic beaming and the origin of 100% circular polariza- tion in OH masers Gray M.D., Field D. Nonasymptotic helioseismic inversion for solar structure Stark profiles of He* Antia H.M., Basu S. Stehlé C. VI Volume Index 292 Circumstellar dust envelopes of oxygen-rich AGB stars Samples of ultra-steep spectrum radio sources Hashimoto O. Réttgering H.J.A., Lacy M., Miley G.K., Chambers Spectrophotometry of southern planetary nebulae K.C., Saunders R. Perinotto M., Purgathofer A., Pasquali A., Patriarchi P. 3 Asteroid 83 Beatrix — photometry and model Simultaneous UBVRI photopolarimetry of three blazars: Krugly Y.N., Shevchenko V.G., Velichko F.P., Bowell 3C 66A, S5 0716+714 and OJ 287 E., Piironen J., Kwiatkowski T., Kryszczyrska A.., Takalo L.O., Sillanpédi A., Nilsson K. Michalowski T. CCD spectrophotometry of CVs. 1. 4600-9000 A low resolu- CCD photometry of distant open clusters. I. Berkeley 22, tion atlas for 31 faint systems Berkeley 29 and Berkeley 54 Zwitter T., Munari U. Kaluzny J. Geometrical analysis of average pulsar profiles using multi- G.S.M.: a Grating Scale Monitor for atmospheric turbulence component gaussian fits at several frequencies. 1. Method and measurements. I. The instrument and first results of angle of analysis arrival measurements Kramer M., Wielebinski R., Jessner A., Gil J.A., Martin F., Tokovinin A., Agabi A., Borgnino J., Ziad Seiradakis J.H. A Geometrical analysis of average pulsar profiles using multi- AURELIE: the high resolution spectrometer of the Haute- component gaussian fits at several frequencies. II. Individual Provence Observatory results Gillet D., Burnage R., Kohler D., Lacroix D., Kramer M. Adrianzyk G., Baietto J.C., Berger J.P., Goillandeau M., Guillaume C., Joly C., Meunier J.P., Rimbaud G., Generation of artificial helioseismic time-series Vin A. Schou J., Brown T.M. Blue low surface-brightness galaxies. 1. Surface photometry A method to define a reference system for the reduction of Roénnback J., Bergvall N. astrometric positions of natural satellites Veiga C.H., Vieira Martins R. AstroWeb. A database of links to astronomy resources (Announcement of a database) Positions of Uranian satellites Jackson R., Wells D., Adorf H.M., Egret D., Heck A.., Veiga C.H., Vieira Martins R. Koekemoer A., Murtagh F. A large-scale survey of OH in the galactic centre Long-term photometry of Be stars. I. Fading events and Boyce P.J., Cohen R.J. variations on time scales of years Mennickent R.E., Vogt N., Sterken C. Abstracts of articles which have been published in A&A Erratum New proper-motion stars south of declination 40° Supplement Series 108, No. 1 and right ascension between 16h and 21h Wroblewski H., Torres C. Atomic data from the IRON Project. V. Effective collision strengths for transitions in the ground configuration of Abstracts of articles which have been published in A&A oxygen-like ions Supplement Series 108, No. 2 Butler K., Zeippen C.J. Fundamental parameters of Cepheids. I. Photometric data in Orbital changes of Oort cloud comets due to strong planetary the Geneva system influences Bersier D., Burki G., Burnet M. Jia-Qing Zheng Fundamental parameters of Cepheids. II. Radial velocity Measurements of the sky background using the HST Faint data Object Camera Bersier D., Burki G., Mayor M., Duquennoy A. Caulet A., Hook R.N., Fosbury R.A.E. The distribution of light in the spiral galaxy NGC 7412 A spaceborne near-Earth asteroid detection system Saraiva Schréder M.F., Pastoriza M.G., Kepler S.O., Jackson B.V., Buffington A., Hick P.L., Kahler S.W., Puerari I. Webb D.F. The long-term behaviour of the photometric variability of Atomic data for absorption lines from the ground level at fi Cassiopeiae wavelengths greater than 228 Riboni E., Poretti E., Galli G. Verner D.A., Barthel P.D., Tytler D. Warm IRAS sources from the point source catalog. IV. Ex- uvby-fB photometry of high-velocity and metal-poor stars. tended optical line emission VII. Ages of halo and thick-disk field stars Fehmers G.C., de Grijp M.H.K., Miley G.K., Keel W.C. Marquez A., Schuster W.J. Spectral classifications in the near-infrared of stars with Photometry of five asteroids: 189 Phthia, 220 Stephania, composite spectra. I. The study of MK standards 289 Nenetta, 312 Pierretta and 626 Notburga Ginestet N., Carquillat J.M., Jaschek M., Jaschek C. Mohamed R.A., Chiorny V.G., Dovgopol A.N., Shevchenko V.G. Application of wavelet analysis in variable star research. I. Properties of the wavelet map of simulated variable star Optical nebulosities associated with IRAS sources in dense cloud cores light curves Szatmadry K., Vinké J., Gal J. Eiroa C., Torrelles J.M., Miranda L.F., Anglada G., Estalella R. Volume Index 292 A new automatic identification technique for OB associations Search for the remnants of the 1977-1986 outburst in the in unresolved galaxies quiescent phase of CH Cygni Adanti S., Battinelli P., Capuzzo-Dolcetta R., Hodge Jurdana R., Kotnik-Karuza D. P.W. Spectropolarimetry of magnetic stars. III. Measurement CCD uvbyf photometry of faint stars. 1. Observations and uncertainties reductions Mathys G. Jonch-Sorensen H. How did the spectrum of P Cygni look in 1985? Spectral atlas When does the Richardson—Lucy deconvolution converge? with complete line identifications in the wavelength range Bi H., Borner G. from 3550 to 4800 A Free-free quasi-molecular absorption and _ satellites in Markova N. Lyman-alpha due to collisions with H and H* Photometry of the young cluster NGC 330 in the Small Allard N.F., Koester D., Feautrier N., Spielfiedel A. Magellanic Cloud Chemical composition of selected double-mode Cepheids and Vallenari A., Ortolani S., Chiosi C. the P,/P)—[Fe/H] relation Interstellar dust clouds in the direction of the globular cluster Andrievsky §.M., Kovtyukh V.V., Usenko 1.A., M71 Klochkova V.G., Galazutdinov G.A. Smriglio F., Dasgupta A.K., Boyle R.P. A new approach to calibrating the Strémgren photometric Multi-frequency synthesis techniques in radio interferometric system in terms of metal-to-hydrogen ratio imaging Malyuto V. Sault R.J., Wieringa M.H. StarWorlds—StarBits (Announcement of two databases) The light variations of some CP2 SrCrEu stars Heck A., Egret D., Ochsenbein F. Catalano F.A., Leone F. TiO bands as a function of stellar parameters Third bibliographic catalogue of stellar radial velocities (Text Milone A., Barbuy B. in French) High precision rotating neutron star models. II. Large sample Barbier-Brossat M., Petit M., Figon P. of neutron star properties A Call and Mgil luminosity/emission-width data base Salgado M., Bonazzola S., Gourgoulhon E., Haensel Lastennet E., Freire Ferrero R. P. The distribution of dust in Sb’s and Sc’s: K-band infrared imaging of a diameter-limited sample of 37 galaxies Abstracts of articles which have been published in A&A Peletier R.F., Valentiin E.A., Moorwood A.F.M., Supplement Series 108, No. 3 Freudling W. U BV RI photometry and polarimetry of the stars in S 252 (NGC 2175). I. The observations Multicolor surface photometry of early-type galaxies. I. Haikala L.K. Penereiro J.C., de Carvalho R.R., Djorgovski S., Thompson D. The low galactic latitude metal-rich globular cluster NGC 6440 On an alternative statistical distance scale for planetary Ortolani S., Barbuy B., Bica E. nebulae. Catalog with statistical distances to planetary nebu- lae Infrared properties of OH/IR stars. I. Near-infrared observa- Van de Steene G.C., Zijlstra A.A. tion and some physical parameters of OH/IR stars Xiong G.Z., Chen P.S., Gao H. Environments of Seyfert galaxies. I. Construction of the sample and selection effects Low resolution IUE spectra of Wolf-Rayet stars Laurikainen E., Salo H., Teerikorpi P., Petrov G. Niedzielski A., Rochowicz K. Rotate-And-Stare: A new method for PSF estimation Teuber J., Astensen R., Stabell R., Florentin-Nielsen R. Deep Ha survey of the Milky Way. II. The / = 328° area Georgelin Y.M., Amram P., Georgelin Y.P., le Coarer E., Marcelin M. A 20474 D ASTRONOMY AND 1 ASTROPHYSICS Vol. 292 No. 1 December (I) 1994 Astron. 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