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THE ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL LETTERS CONTENTS OF VOLUME 582, PART 2 2003 JANUARY 1, NUMBER 1 EDITORIAL: ApJ LETTERS TRANSITIONS Alexander Dalgarno EDITORIAL: ApJ LETTERS TRANSITIONS Christopher Sneden THE SPECTROSCOPIC VARIABILITY OF GRB 021004 T. Matheson, P. M. Garnavich, C. Foltz, S. West, G. Williams, E. Falco, M. L. Calkins, F. J. Castander, E. Gawiser, S. Jha, D. Bersier, and K. Z. Stanek THE DISCOVERY OF H,O MASER EMISSION IN SEVEN ACTIVE GALACTIC NUCLEI AND AT HIGH VELOCITIES IN THE CIRCINUS GALAXY L. J. Greenhill, P. T. Kondratko, J. E. J. Lovell, T. B. H. Kuiper, J. M. Moran, D. L. Jauncey, and G. P. Baines DISCOVERY OF A BINARY ACTIVE GALACTIC NUCLEUS IN THE ULTRALUMINOUS INFRARED GALAXY NGC 6240 USING CHANDRA S. Komossa, V. Burwitz, G. Hasinger, P. Predehl, J. S. Kaastra, and Y. Ikebe ON THE CENTRAL STRUCTURE OF M15 Holger Baumgardt, Piet Hut, Junichiro Makino, Steve McMillan, and Simon Portegies Zwart SIDE GROUP ADDITION TO THE POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBON CORONENE BY PROTON IRRADIATION IN COSMIC ICE ANALOGS Max P. Bernstein, Marla H. Moore, Jamie E. Elsila, Scott A. Sandford, Louis J. Allamandola, and Richard N. Zare SPECTRAL LINES FROM ROTATING NEUTRON STARS Feryal Ozel and Dimitrios Psaltis MID-INFRARED IMAGING POLARIMETRY OF NGC 7027 C. A. Jurgenson, R. E. Stencel, D. S. Theil, D. I. Klebe, and T. Ueta DISCOVERY OF MULTIPLE MOLECULAR SHELLS IN THE OUTER ENVELOPE OF IRC +10216 D. Fong, M. Meixner, and R. Y. Shah FIRST FULL EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTATION OF THE HELIUM FLASH-INDUCED MIXING IN POPULATION II STARS Santi Cassisi, Helmut Schlattl, Maurizio Salaris, and Achim Weiss A REDUCED EFFICIENCY OF TERRESTRIAL PLANET FORMATION FOLLOWING GIANT PLANET MIGRATION Philip J. Armitage IMPROVED ESTIMATE OF THE MAGNETIC FIELD IN A PROMINENCE A. Lépez Ariste and R. Casini QUIET-SUN MAGNETIC FIELDS AT HIGH SPATIAL RESOLUTION I. Dominguez Cerdena, F. Kneer, and J. Sanchez Almeida SUPPRESSION OF SPECKLE NOISE BY SPECKLE PINNING IN ADAPTIVE OPTICS E. E. Bloemhof INSTRUCTIONS TO AUTHORS OF LETTERS, AND ADDITIONAL USEFUL INFORMATION Inside Back Cover INSTRUCTIONS FOR ELECTRONIC MANUSCRIPT SUBMISSION Back Cover 2003 JANUARY 10, NUMBER 2 THE EFFECT OF BANDPASS UNCERTAINTIES ON COMPONENT SEPARATION Sarah Church, Lloyd Knox, and Martin White THE TOPOLOGY OF A WEAK LENSING FIELD IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD OF MS 1054-03 Jun’ichi Sato, Keiichi Umetsu, Toshifumi Futamase, and Toru Yamada CONTENTS AN OBSCURED RADIO GALAXY AT HIGH REDSHIFT Michiel Reuland, Wil van Breugel, Huub Réttgering, Wim de Vries, Carlos De Breuck, and Daniel Stern GRB 021004: REVERSE SHOCK EMISSION Shiho Kobayashi and Bing Zhang GALACTIC BULGES FROM HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE NEAR-INFRARED CAMERA MULTI-OBJECT SPECTROMETER OBSERVATIONS: THE LACK OF r'* BULGES Marc Balcells, Alister W. Graham, Lilian Dominguez-Palmero, and Reynier F. Peletier A NEW EXTRAGALACTIC DISTANCE DETERMINATION METHOD USING THE FLUX-WEIGHTED GRAVITY OF LATE B AND EARLY A SUPERGIANTS Rolf P. Kudritzki, Fabio Bresolin, and Norbert Przybilla RELATIVISTIC DYSON RINGS AND THEIR BLACK HOLE LIMIT M. Ansorg, A. Kleinwdchter, and R. Meinel SMC X-1 AS AN INTERMEDIATE-STAGE FLARING X-RAY PULSAR Dae-Sik Moon, Stephen S. Eikenberry, and Ira M. Wasserman IRON-RICH EJECTA IN THE SUPERNOVA REMNANT DEM L71 John P. Hughes, Parviz Ghavamian, Cara E. Rakowski, and Patrick O. Slane FIRST DETECTION OF VIBRATIONALLY EXCITED HNC IN SPACE Peter Schilke, Claudia Comito, and Sven Thorwirth MAIN-SEQUENCE STELLAR ERUPTION MODEL FOR V838 MONOCEROTIS Noam Soker and Romuald Tylenda VERY LARGE ARRAY OBSERVATIONS OF PROPER MOTIONS IN YLW 15 S. Curiel, J. M. Girart, L. F. Rodriguez, and J. Canté DOES THE ENERGY SUPPLIED TO LOW-/ SOLAR p-MODES VARY OVER THE ACTIVITY CYCLE? W. J. Chaplin, Y. Elsworth, G. R. Isaak, B. A. Miller, R. New, and T. Toutain ACOUSTIC WAVE PROPAGATION IN THE SUN: IMPLICATIONS FOR WAVE FIELD AND TIME-DISTANCE HELIOSEISMOLOGY C. H. Tong, M. J. Thompson, M. R. Warner, S. P. Rajaguru, and C. C. Pain ERRATUM: “ABSOLUTE PROPER MOTIONS TO B ~ 22.5. V.D ETECTION OF SAGITTARIUS DWARF SPHEROIDAL DEBRIS IN THE DIRECTION OF THE GALACTIC ANTICENTER” (ApJ, 575, L67 [2002]) Dana I. Dinescu, Steven R. Majewski, Terrence M. Girard, René A. Méndez, Allan Sandage, Michael H. Siegel, William E. Kunkel, John P. Subasavage, and Jamie Ostheimer INSTRUCTIONS TO AUTHORS OF LETTERS, AND ADDITIONAL USEFUL INFORMATION Inside Back Cover INSTRUCTIONS FOR ELECTRONIC MANUSCRIPT SUBMISSION Back Cover