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THE ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL LETTERS CONTENTS OF VOLUME 455, PART 2 1995 DECEMBER 10, Number 1 THE CURRENT STAR FORMATION RATE OF THE LOCAL UNIVERSE J. Gallego, J. Zamorano, A. Aragén-Salamanca, & M. Rego AN EVENT IN THE LIGHT CURVE OF 0957+561A AND PREDICTION OF THE 1996 IMAGE B LIGHT CURVE Tomislav Kundié, Wesley N. Colley, J. Richard Gott III, Sangeeta Malhotra, Ue-Li Pen, James E. Rhoads, Krzysztof Z. Stanek, Edwin L. Turner, & Joachim Wambsganss STRONG X-RAY ABSORPTION IN A BROAD ABSORPTION LINE QUASAR: PHL 5200 Smita Mathur, Martin Elvis, & K. P. Singh OPTICAL DETECTION OF THE HIDDEN NUCLEAR ENGINE IN NGC 4258 Belinda J. Wilkes, Gary D. Schmidt, Paul S$. Smith, Smita Mathur, & Kim K. McLeod AN ALIGNMENT BETWEEN OPTICAL CONTINUUM AND EMISSION-LINE STRUCTURES IN THE CIRCUMNUCLEAR REGIONS OF SEYFERT GALAXIES John S. Mulchaey & Andrew S. Wilson EXTRAGALACTIC MAGNETIC FIELD AND THE HIGHEST ENERGY COSMIC RAYS Sangjin Lee, Angela V. Olinto, & Giinter Sigl HIGH-ENERGY SPECTRAL COMPLEXITY FROM THERMAL GRADIENTS IN BLACK HOLE ATMOSPHERES J. G. Skibo & C. D. Dermer PRODUCTION OF MILKY WAY STRUCTURE BY THE MAGELLANIC CLOUDS Martin D. Weinberg DEFICIT OF FAR-INFRARED [C 1] LINE EMISSION TOWARD THE GALACTIC CENTER Takao Nakagawa, Yasuo Doi, Yukari Yamashita Yui, Haruyuki Okuda, Kenji Mochizuki, Hiroshi Shibai, Tetsuo Nishimura, & Frank J. Low YOUNG STAR CLUSTERS IN BRIGHT-RIMMED CLOUDS: SMALL-SCALE SEQUENTIAL STAR FORMATION? Koji Sugitani, Motohide Tamura, & Katsuo Ogura IDENTIFICATION OF THE SOFT X-RAY SOURCE WGA J1802.1+1804 WITH A NEW MAGNETIC CATACLYSMIC VARIABLE Paula Szkody, Andrew Silber, D. W. Hoard, E. Fierce, K. P. Singh, P. Barrett, E. Schlegel, & V. Piirola SPECTROSCOPIC IDENTIFICATION OF PROBABLE CATACLYSMIC VARIABLES IN THE GLOBULAR CLUSTER NGC 6397 J. E. Grindlay, A. M. Cool, P. J. Callanan, C. D. Bailyn, H. N. Cohn, & P. M. Lugger PHOTON SPLITTING IN STRONGLY MAGNETIZED COSMIC OBJECTS—REVISITED 325-B8 Gunter Wunner, Robert Sang, & Dagmar Berg A VERY LUMINOUS BINARY MILLISECOND PULSAR . 325-C1 José Navarro, A. G. de Bruyn, D. A. Frail, S. R. Kulkarni, & A. G. Lyne EVIDENCE FOR THERMAL ABSORPTION INSIDE CASSIOPEIA A 325-C8 N. E. Kassim, R. A. Perley, K. S. Dwarakanath, & W. C. Erickson THE DISCOVERY OF A BIPOLAR, ROTATING, EPISODIC JET (BRET) IN THE PLANETARY NEBULA KjPn 8 ~ 325-E2 J. A. Lopez, R. Vazquez, & L. F. Rodriguez VIBRATIONAL GROUND-STATE SiO J = 1-0 EMISSION IN ORION IRc2 IMAGED WITH THE VLA 325-E13 Claire J. Chandler & Christopher G. De Pree CONTENTS CONFIRMATION OF INTERSTELLAR HOC*: REEVALUATING THE [HCO*|/[HOC*] ABUNDANCE RATIO L. M. Ziurys & A. J. Apponi RADIO-ASTRONOMICAL SPECTROSCOPY OF THE HYPERFINE STRUCTURE OF N>H* P. Caselli, P. C. Myers, & P. Thaddeus QUIET-SUN CONNECTION BETWEEN INTENSITY, DOPPLER SHIFT, AND LINE BROADENING IN SOLAR ULTRAVIOLET EMISSION LINES N. Brynildsen, O. Kjeldseth-Moe, & P. Maltby ON THE FAILURE OF STANDARD EMISSION MEASURE ANALYSIS FOR SOLAR EXTREME-ULTRAVIOLET AND ULTRAVIOLET IRRADIANCE SPECTRA P. G. Judge, T. N. Woods, P. Brekke, & G. J. Rottman ANALYTIC TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCES FOR A COMPLETE SET OF RATE COEFFICIENTS FOR COLLISIONAL EXCITATION AND DISSOCIATION OF H, MOLECULES BY H ATOMS P. G. Martin & M. E. Mandy ERRATUM Dust EMIssiION FROM PROTOSTARS: THE Disk AND ENVELOPE OF HH 24 MMS L93 326-B2 C. J. Chandler, D. W. Koerner, A. I. Sargent, & D. O. S. Wood INSTRUCTIONS TO AUTHORS OF LETTERS, RECENT LETTERS ABSTRACTS, AUTHOR AND SUBJECT INDEXES Inside Back Cover INSTRUCTIONS FOR ELECTRONIC MANUSCRIPT SUBMISSION Back Cover 1995 DECEMBER 20, Number 2 Fiche BIG BANG NUCLEOSYNTHESIS AND A NEW APPROACH TO GALACTIC CHEMICAL EVOLUTION 333-Cl Craig J. Copi, David N. Schramm, & Michael S. Turner LENSING BY DISTANT CLUSTERS: HST OBSERVATIONS OF WEAK SHEAR IN THE FIELD OF 3C 324 333-C8 lan Smail & Mark Dickinson MAPPING THE GALAXY DISTRIBUTION AT LARGE DISTANCES Christéle Bellanger & Valérie de Lapparent DETECTION OF THE ANGULAR CORRELATION OF FAINT X-RAY SOURCES 333-D10 A. Vikhlinin & W. Forman LIMITS ON DUS? IN RICH CLUSTERS OF GALAXIES FROM THE COLOR OF BACKGROUND QUASARS Dan Maoz LOCALLY OPTIMALLY EMITTING CLOUDS AND THE ORIGIN OF QUASAR EMISSION LINES 333-El11 Jack Baldwin, Gary Ferland, Kirk Korista, & Dima Verner NEAR-INFRARED OBSERVATIONS OF EXTENDED EMISSION AROUND PG 1545+210 333-F4 G. Neugebauer, K. Matthews, & L. Armus THE H,O MEGAMASERS IN NGC 2639—EVIDENCE FOR AN ACCRETION DISK IN A LINER NUCLEUS 333-F12 A. S. Wilson, J. A. Braatz, & C. Henkel SPIRAL STRUCTURE IN THE CIRCUMNUCLEAR DISK AT THE CENTER OF NGC 4258 333-G4 Eyal Maoz STELLAR ABUNDANCES AND WINDS OF A-TYPE SUPERGIANT STARS IN M33: FIRST RESULTS FROM THE 333-G11 KECK HIRES SPECTROGRAPH James K. McCarthy, Daniel J. Lennon, Kim A. Venn, Rolf-Peter Kudritzki, Joachim Puls, & Francisco Najarro A BLACK HOLE IN THE X-RAY NOVA GS 2000+25 334-A4 Alexei V. Filippenko, Thomas Matheson, & Aaron J. Barth HYDRODYNAMIC TIMESCALES AND TEMPORAL STRUCTURE OF GAMMA-RAY BURSTS 334-All Re’em Sari & Tsvi Piran EVIDENCE FOR A SPECTROSCOPIC SEQUENCE AMONG TYPE Ia SUPERNOVAE 334-B4 Peter Nugent, Mark Phillips, E. Baron, David Branch, & Peter Hauschildt CONTENTS Fiche DISCOVERY OF A CANDIDATE ISOLATED NEUTRON STAR IN A NEW SUPERNOVA REMNANT NEAR CTB 1 334-B12 Charles J. Hailey & William W. Craig MAGNETOCENTRIFUGALLY DRIVEN FLOWS FROM YOUNG STARS AND DISKS. V. ASYMPTOTIC 334-C6 COLLIMATION INTO JETS Frank H. Shu, Joan Najita, Eve C. Ostriker, & Hsien Shang THE EXTREMELY LOW LUMINOSITY WHITE DWARF ESO 439-26 331-C13 Maria Teresa Ruiz, P. Bergeron, S. K. Leggett, & Claudio Anguita ARE BLUE STRAGGLERS MIXED DURING COLLISIONS? 334-D6 Alison Procter Sills, Charles D. Bailyn, & Pierre Demarque PHOTON HEATING OF ENVELOPES AROUND YOUNG STELLAR OBJECTS: AN EXPLANATION FOR 334-D12 CO J = 6-5 EMISSION Marco Spaans, Michiel R. Hogerheijde, Lee G. Mundy, & Ewine F. van Dishoeck GRAIN ALIGNMENT IN THE TAURUS DARK CLOUD 334-E7 P. A. Gerakines, D. C. B. Whitiet, & A. Lazarian APPROACHING THE INTERSTELLAR GRAIN ORGANIC REFRACTORY COMPONENT 334-F1 J. Mayo Greenberg, Aigen Li, Celia X. Mendoza-Gomez, Willem A. Schutte, Perry A. Gerakines, & Menno de Groot A POINT IN FAVOR OF THE SUPERPARAMAGNETIC GRAIN HYPOTHESIS 334-F8 A. A Goodman & D. C. B. Whittet SiO EMISSION FROM A 1000 AU DISK IN ORION KL 334-G3 M. C. H. Wright, R. L. Plambeck, L. G. Mundy, & L. W. Looney SUBARCSECOND-RESOLUTION 86 GHz CONTINUUM MAPS OF ORION KL 334-G10 R. L. Plambeck, M. C. H. Wright, L. G. Mundy, & L. W. Looney SOLAR ATMOSPHERIC ABUNDANCES AND ENERGY CONTENT IN FLARE-ACCELERATED IONS FROM GAMMA-RAY SPECTROSCOPY Reuven Ramaty, Natalie Mandzhavidze, Benzion Kozlovsky, & Ronald J. Murphy AN EXACT SOLUTION FOR STEADY STATE MAGNETIC RECONNECTION IN THREE DIMENSIONS I. J. D. Craig, R. B. Fabling, S. M. Henton, & G. J. Rickard MICROWAVE SPECTRA, HYPERFINE STRUCTURE, AND ELECTRIC DIPOLE MOMENTS FOR CONFORMERS I AND II OF GLYCINE F. J. Lovas, Y. Kawashima, J.-U. Grabow, R. D. Suenram, G. T. Fraser, & E. Hirota INSTRUCTIONS TO AUTHORS OF LETTERS AND RECENT LETTERS ABSTRACTS AND OTHER Inside Back Cover BIBLIOGRAPHICAL SERVICES INSTRUCTIONS FOR ELECTRONIC MANUSCRIPT SUBMISSION Back Cover