期刊名称：ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS
 期刊简介(About the journal)
投稿须知(Instructions to Authors)
编辑部信息(Editorial Board)
About the journal
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An International Weekly Journal
A Merging of A&A Main Journal (Springer Verlag, 1969-2000)
and A&A Supplement Series (EDP Sciences, 1980-2000).
Editor-in-Chief: C. Bertout
Letter Editor: P. Schneider
ISSN (Print Edition): 0004-6361
ISSN (Electronic Edition): 1432-0746
Frequency: Four Times per Month Astronomy and Astrophysics, a European Journal , publishes papers on all aspects of astronomy and astrophysics: theoretical, observational and instrumental, independently of the techniques used to obtain the results.
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Instructions to Authors
Instructions for authors
1. Introduction
2. How to submit a manuscript
3. Online material
4. The acceptance stage (Letters and regular papers)
5. Style guide
6. Astronomical objects
1. Introduction
Astronomy & Astrophysics publishes papers on all aspects of astronomy and astrophysics: theoretical, observational and instrumental, independently of the techniques used to obtain the results.
Letters
Important new results that require rapid publication can be submitted as a Letter. Letters should be written in LaTeX2e using the new A&A macro package. They must be restricted in length to 4 printed pages. Such papers can generally be published within 4-8 weeks of acceptance.
General remarks
Papers should be written in English.
Authors should suggest the section in which the paper will appear and the relevant keywords.
The sections are as follows:
1. Letters
2. Astrophysical processes
3. Cosmology (including clusters of galaxies)
4. Extragalactic astronomy
5. Galactic structure, stellar clusters and populations
6. Interstellar and circumstellar matter
7. Stellar structure and evolution
8. Stellar atmospheres
9. The Sun
10. Planets and planetary systems
11. Celestial mechanics and astrometry
12. Atomic, molecular and nuclear data
13. Instruments, observational techniques, and data processing
The list of keywords, common to the major astronomical journals, is appended to these instructions.
Note concerning papers submitted for Section 13
It is required that papers describing existing instruments and/or observational procedures contain a significant amount of new results obtained with the instrument or technique described. The Editors are generally reluctant to consider papers of purely instrumental nature unless they fulfill at least one of two criteria: (a) be of interest to a large fraction of the community or (b) report a significant advance in instrumentation. These papers should be written as concisely as possible, and details should appear in appendices to be published in the electronic version of the journal.
2. How to submit a manuscript
All manuscripts must be written in LaTeX2e with the A&A macro package which is available via anonymous ftp at ftp.edpsciences.org in the directory pub/aa.
Authors are kindly requested to submit their manuscripts electronically. Letters must be submitted to the Bonn editorial office, while regular papers and research notes must be submitted to the Paris editorial office. Detailed instructions follow.
2.1. Submission of LETTERS
The Letter Editor is:
Prof. Peter P. SCHNEIDER
A&A Letters Editorial Office
Institut für Astrophysik der Universität Bonn
Auf dem Hügel 71
D-53121 Bonn
Germany
Tel. (49) 228-73 36 75
Fax. (49) 228-73 19 11
e-mail: aal@aanda.astro.uni-bonn.de
ftp: aal-ftp.astro.uni-bonn.de
Please send a single Postscript file containing text and figures of your submitted Letter aither by e-mail (if the file is less than 1 Mbyte) or by FTP if it is larger. When sending the file by FTP, use the following set of instructions:
- ftp aal-ftp.astro.uni-bonn.de
- login: anonymous
- password: your e-mail address
- cd incoming/aal
- mkdir your name
- cd your name
- put file.ps
- bye
2.2. Submission of REGULAR ARTICLES
The Editorin-Chief is:
Prof. Claude BERTOUT
A&A Editorial Office
Observatoire de Paris
61 avenue de l'Observatoire
F-75014 Paris
France
Tel. (33) (0)1 43 29 05 41
Fax. (33) (0)1 43 29 05 57
e-mail: aanda.paris@obspm.fr
ftp: aanda.obspm.fr
The submission process of regular articles consists of two steps:
- 1. Register your new submission on the A&A Manuscript Management System (MMS) at address https://mms-aanda.obspm.fr/is/aa/
- 2. Load your manuscript file on the A&A FTP site.
NOTE. For security reasons, the MMS and FTP sites are installed on different machines. Once the editorial staff retrieves your paper on the FTP site and checks its validity, it is transferred to the MMS where it can be accessed by the Editor and the paper's referee. For this reason, you cannot load your manuscript directly to the MMS but must send it instead to our FTP site.
1. Registering your manuscript on the MMS
In order to register your new submission, you need to enter your author identifier. This is a unique and confidential number that is attributed to you at your first submission to A&A. If you have submitted a paper to A&A before, you already have an author identifier. If you publish regularly with us, it is a good idea to note your author number for future reference.
If you are a new A&A author, you'll be asked to fill up a registration form and an identifier will be attributed to you.
If you forgot your author identifier, go to https://mms-aanda.obspm.fr/is/aa/ . Click on Submit a paper (on the left of the page) and follow the link for retrieving your number. You'll be asked to enter your email address and your identifier will be mailed to the given address if MMS finds a correspondence between the email address you entered and an A&A author.
If you have recently changed email address, do NOT fill up a new registration form but instead contact the editorial office at aanda.paris@obspm.fr.
2. Loading your manuscript file on the Paris FTP site
You will first need to prepare your manuscript as a single PDF (preferred) or Postscript file. A typical sequence of commands for sending your file is as follows:
- ftp aanda.obspm.fr
- login: anonymous
- password: your email address
- cd aanda
- mkdir your name
- cd your name
- bin
- put your file.pdf
- bye
More detailed instructions for loading the file on our server are given on the editorial office web site at address http://www.obspm.fr/aanda. Note that the aanda folder is not read-enabled for obvious security reasons; therefore you will not be able to check that your file has been transferred.
IMPORTANT: when loading a Postscript file, always use the BINARY option otherwise we won't be able to read your file.
There have been rare reports of access problems to the server that must apparently be attributed to some combinations of FTP clients and operating systems. In case of problem, you might want to try using a different computer or FTP client to load your paper before contacting us.
3. Online material
Some material will be published only electronically (ftp and WWW):
- large tables at the CDS
- figures, colour pictures, appendices, movies, etc. at EDP Sciences.
At the request of the Editor-in-Chief they may be published both electronically and as hard copy.
At the CDS site:
For all papers, including old papers without electronic version, the tables can be obtained from the CDS:
At EDP Sciences sites:
The material is displayed as HTML pages including if necessary links to files under other formats, i.e. MPEG. Whenever the format of the online material allows it (text appendix, tables, ...), it can be included in the .pdf version of the article as a separated section at the end. This section has special page numbering independent of that of the paper copy. In order to include your online material in the .pdf, insert in the .tex file the command \Online after the end of the bibliography and add your text.
This section will be published as it is received without any changes by the publisher.
Preparation of the electronic tables
Tables to be published in electronic form at the CDS should preferably be prepared as plain ASCII files, one file per table; the description of all table layouts and contents should be gathered into a file named ReadMe, a template of which can be copied from ftp://cdsarc.u-strasbg.fr/pub/J/A+A/ReadMe.txt. In addition to the description of the tabular material, the role of the ReadMe file is to supply minimal details about the context and the history of the data.
Detailed instructions for the preparation and the submission of the tabular data can be found at
http://cdsweb.u-strasbg.fr/submit/;
specific questions can be addressed to the e-mail address cats@simbad.u-strasbg.fr.
Reference to the material published electronically should appear in the printed text, including a description of the column headings of tabular material. The following text is an example of such a description: "Table 1, available at the CDS, contains the following information. Column 1 lists the name of the source, Column 2 gives the bolometric luminosity..."
4. The acceptance stage (Letters and regular papers)
After the paper has been accepted and after the Editor in Chief has requested it, you will send the paper's files to the publisher.
First, prepare the final manuscript *.tex file by removing the referee option, the figures files as *.ps or *.eps files, and any additional stylefiles needed. Name the LaTeX and Postscript files with the last 4 digits of your manuscript number (e.g., for Figure 1: 0030fig1.eps) so as to avoid any confusion. Do not use more than 8 signs plus extension (abcdefgh.xxx). You can then send the files using one of the 3 ways indicated below:
- by e-mail directly to the publisher at the address mentioned in the acceptance letter.
- by anonymous ftp to:
ftp server: ftp.edpsciences.org
username: anonymous
password: your email address
directory: incoming/aa
Generate a directory using the name of the first author or your manuscript number to hold all the files or generate a single archive (tar.gz). Please use lower-case for all directories and archives.
- by regular mail (on a diskette) to:
EDP Sciences
17, avenue du Hoggar
PA de Courtaboeuf, BP 112
91944 Les Ulis Cedex A
France
Tables made available in electronic form at the CDS should be prepared according to the conventions given above, and detailed at http://cdsweb.u-strasbg.fr/submit/; they should be sent to the CDS upon acceptance of the paper, preferably from the submission form proposed there; alternatively the tabular material can be sent by e-mail to cats@cdsarc.u-strasbg.fr, or by ftp to cdsarc.u-strasbg.fr. The electronic versions of the tables are systematically checked for their consistency at the CDS, and the author may have to interact with the CDS about missing descriptions or detected inconsistencies.
Page proofs
For all papers, except Letters, page proofs will be sent to the authors by e-mail (pdf file). Please note that corrections should be restricted to typographical errors; costs for extensive additional changes will be charged to the author. Where absolutely essential the addition of a "Note added in proof" will be considered. A note added in proof appears at the end of the paper.
Offprints
For each article, 25 offprints are supplied free of charge, independent of the number of authors. Additional copies may be ordered at cost price.
To highlight your work, the supplementary offprints now possess a cover in colour, similar to that of the journal, resuming the title and name of the authors of the article. Please note that if you do not order additional reprints then the 25 reprints free of charge will be provided without cover.
However it is possible to obtain with an extra cost these 25 offprints with a cover.
If you order additional copies, all the offprints will include a cover. An example is available at http://www.edpsciences.org/journal/statique/doc/aa_couv_tap.pdf
The offprint order form must be filled in and return together with the corrected proofs.
Permission to reprint
Requests for permission to reprint figures or tables which have already been published in A&A should be addressed to the copyright holders, not to the publishers. The address is:
Professor C. Bertout
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Editorial Office
Observatoire de Paris
61 avenue de l'Observatoire
75014 Paris, France
(e-mail: aanda.paris@obspm.fr)
5. Style guide
A general guide on writing for A&A can be found at http://www.aanda.org/writeaa.html
Manuscript Contents
Manuscripts should generally contain: Title, author's name, address of author's institution, abstract, max. 6 key words, main text, acknowledgements, list of references, tables and figures. Figures and tables must be inserted in the manuscript by the author using the suitable Latex commands. Manuscript pages should be numbered consecutively, as well as the figures and tables.
Title
The title of the paper should be concise yet informative. Please refrain from using acronyms in the title.
Authors and addresses
For every manuscript, all authors and all addresses should be listed. Addresses should contain e-mail addresses where possible. A number should precede each address and the authors' names should be marked with the appropriate numerical superscript(s). Please follow the instructions that come with the LaTeX macro package. To speed up communication with the publisher, authors are requested to provide their telephone and fax numbers or e-mail address. Unless the authors request otherwise, the e-mail addresses will be included in the affiliation to facilitate information exchange between readers and authors.
Abstract
The Abstract should be self-contained, summarizing concisely the content and conclusions of the paper. Abstracts should constitute 3-4% of the total length of the paper.
Key words
A maximum of 6 key words should be given following the Abstract. These should be selected from a list that is published each year in the first issue of January and also available here.
Main text
Manuscripts should be divided into numbered sections and subsections, starting with "1. Introduction". Subsections should be numbered 2.1., 2.2., 3.1. etc.; appendices with A, B etc. All sections must have a short descriptive title.
One column format
Some papers contain a lot of large mathematical formulae which sometimes are not easily readable and cannot be written on a 2-column format. So there is a "one column" option which is reserved for these papers.
Some aspects of typographic style within the text
The following expressions should always be abbreviated unless they come at the beginning of a sentence (e.g. Sect., Sects., Fig., Figs., Col., Cols.). Table is never abbreviated.
Abbreviations of concepts, methods, instruments, observatories, etc. may be used throughout the text but the full wording with the abbreviation in parentheses should be given once in the Abstract (if appropriate) and/or once at the first place of mention in the main text (usually in the Introduction).
Examples: ...very long baseline interferometry (VLBI)...; ... Westerbork Radio Telescope (WRT)...
Figures and tables
Figures submitted to the Journal must be of very good quality to ensure accuracy and clarity in the final published copy, and should preferably be in Postscript form. Artwork should be in good focus, with clean, clear numbers and letters and sharp black lines. Thin lines, particularly in figures requiring considerable reduction, should be avoided. Because of the size of the Journal, the production office will reduce most figures to fit a one-column format (88 mm).
If lettered parts of a figure (e.g., 1a, 1b, 1c, etc.) are referred to in the figure legend, each part of the figure should be labelled with the appropriate letter within the image area.
As far as possible, authors should plan the size and shape of each figure so that after reduction they will fit the column width (max. 88 mm). If necessary, figures may extend across the entire page width (max. 180 mm). Intermediate widths with a side caption are also possible (max. 120 mm).
The illustrations should be placed at the top of the column and flush-left according to layout conventions.
Authors should check that laser-printed originals of these figures (especially for grayscales) are acceptable.
Authors using PostScript (".ps") or Encapsulated PostScript (".eps") files for figures are requested to send these with the final version of their manuscripts directly to the publisher by e-mail/ftp after final acceptance of the paper by the editors. If you have colour illustrations in your manuscript, please send files in CMYK if possible.
Coloured figures: Please note that the publisher needs a hardcopy of the colour figure(s). Authors will be expected to make a contribution towards the cost of four-colour reproduction and printing. The present rates (without VAT) are 610 euros for the first page of coloured illustrations (irrespective of the size and number of the figures) and 300 euros for each additional page.
Figure captions: Part figures should be numbered by boldface letters (a, b, c etc.). The following examples will illustrate the required style.
Fig. 1. Spectrum of the cosmic blackbody radiation in the radio window.
Fig. 4. a) Blackman-Tuckey power spectra of sunspot areas. b) FFT power spectra of sunspot areas.
Figures provided as colour figures by the authors but in black & white in the print edition may be of poor quality. If so, authors and readers are invited to consult the online edition where figures appear in colour.
Tables: The tables should be prepared using LaTeX (see examples in the instructions that accompany the macro package). They should be presented like the following model:
Tables to be published only in electronic form at the CDS should preferably be prepared in plain ASCII, as described above (Preparation of the electronic tables); TeX, LateX or FITS formats are acceptable, but the data will be converted to ASCII format which is used for the distribution.
Please note that the tables should keep the same numbering as in the paper. However tables which are published only in electronic form need not fit on a printed page: it is therefore not necessary to split a table having many columns into a set of smaller tables having each a part of the original columns, a single table containing all parameters being generally more efficient for searches and data processing.
Footnotes
These should be kept to a minimum and numbered consecutively with arabic numerals as superscript but without any parentheses.
Literature citations
The following examples illustrate the required style in the main text: (Copernicus 1986); (Copernicus & Galilei 1988); (Hubble et al. 1985; Newton et al. 1987; Ptolemaus & Copernicus 1989a, 1989b, 1992); Recently Galilei et al. (1992, 1993) showed that...
For frequently cited papers an abbreviated form of citation is recommended, e.g. Paper I, Paper II.
Appendices
First-order (boldface) headings should be styled as shown in the following examples:
(a) Only one appendix, additional heading optional:
Appendix
Appendix: Derivation of Eq. (6)
(b) Two or more appendices, additional headings optional:
Appendix A
Appendix B: Distribution of cosmic rays
References
In preparing the reference list please adhere to the following format. Attention should be paid to the order of the items in each reference and to the punctuation used. Please see Sect. 4 in the User's Guide that comes with the new macro package.
Bohr, N., Einstein, A., & Fermi, E. 1992, MNRAS, 301, 257 (BEF)
Curie, M., & Curie, P. 1991, A&A, 248, 612
de Gaulle, C. 1996, Solar Phys. (Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press)
Heisenberg, W., & West, C. N. 1993, Australian J. Phys., 537, 36 (Paper III)
Laurel, S., & Hardy, O. 1994, Active Galactic Nuclei, in The Evolution and Distribution of Galaxies, ed. W. Churchill, F. D. Roosevelt, & J. Stalin (New York: Wiley), 210
Simplified abbreviations of frequently used journals
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Adv. Space Res. |
Advances in Space Research |
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ARA&A |
Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics |
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AJ |
Astronomical Journal (the) |
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Astro. Lett. |
Astronomical Letters |
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AZh |
Astronomiceskij Zhurnal |
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A&A |
A&AS Astronomy and Astrophysics (Letters indicated by the number) |
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A&AS |
A&AS Astronomy and Astrophysics Supplement Series |
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ApJ |
Astrophysical Journal (the) (Letters indicated by the number) |
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ApJS |
Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series (the) |
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Ap&SS |
Astrophysics and Space Science |
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Australian J. Phys. |
Australian Journal of Physics |
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BAAS |
Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society |
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Comput. Phys. Commun. |
Computer Physics Communications |
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IAU Circ. |
International Astronomical Union, Circular |
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IBVS |
International Bulletin of Variable Stars |
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Icarus |
Icarus |
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J. Comput. Phys. |
Journal of Computational Physics |
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JRASC 0 |
Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada |
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MNRAS |
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society |
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MmRAS |
Memoirs of the Royal Astronomical Society |
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Nature |
Nature |
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New Astron. |
New Astronomy |
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Phys. Rev. A, B, C, D |
Physical Review A, B, C, D |
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Phys. Rep. |
Physics Reports |
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Planet. Space Sci. |
Planetary & Space Sciences |
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PASJ |
Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan |
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PASP |
Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific |
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QJRAS |
Quarterly Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society |
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Rep. Prog. Phys. |
Reports on Progress in Physics |
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Science |
Science |
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Sol. Phys. |
Solar Physics |
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Soviet Astron. Lett. |
Soviet Astronomy Letters |
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Space Sci. Rev. |
Space Science Reviews |
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Z. Astrophys. |
Zeitschrift für Astrophysik |
Units, symbols and nomenclature
In general, authors should leave the mark-up of the manuscript to the publisher's editorial staff since they try to follow a uniform procedure to which the typesetters are accustomed. However, authors can considerably help the publisher by observing the following rules:
a) The text should make clear distinctions between physical variables, mathematical symbols, units of measurement, abbreviations, chemical formulae, etc.
b) Italic and boldface should be used appropriately to identify physical or mathematical variables. In general, variables are set in light italic, vectors in boldface italic. Physical constants such as the speed of light, the Boltzmann constant, the Hubble constant and the solar mass are also set in light italic.
c) Italic should never be used for units of measurement e.g. km, erg cm-?/SUP>, s-1or for chemical formulae unless, of course, these items fall within a passage that is entirely in italic.
d) As far as possible italic should be avoided for the following: mathematical signs such as "d" (total differential), "e" (base of natural logarithm), "i" (imaginary unit), "pi" (3.14159..), and abbreviations used as subscripts or superscripts to variables, but serving merely as labels, e.g. Qd (d = dust), me (e=electron). However, in conformity with the rest of the text, italic should be used if the subscripts or superscripts are variables in themselves.
e) For common units of measurement (SI and non-SI), standard abbreviations should be used. Unusual units may, at the authors' discretion, be written in full, at least at the first mention. Some traditional, non-SI units persist in the astronomy literature. Some are acceptable (e.g. erg, angström/? but others are obsolescent and should be avoided (e.g. micron/ ). Compound units in which the meaning "per" is implied can be written using either a solidus or a negative index: A&A prefers the latter style, e.g. km s-1 instead of km/s.
f) For the correct naming of astronomical objects outside the solar system, it is suggested that authors refer to the recommendations on nomenclature given by the International Astronomical Union at
http://cdsweb.u-strasbg.fr/Dic/how.htx
6. Astronomical objects
In order to improve the integration of A&A with the astronomical databases, authors are kindly requested to use the \object LaTeX command to link the astronomical objects discussed in their work to the general interest tools developed in the community (notably the astronomical database SIMBAD and the interactivemapping facility ALADIN developed at CDS Strasbourg). Please see the A&A Document Class documentation (aadoc.pdf or aadoc.ps) for details.
Note that CDS provides authors with web-based tools for testing the validity of the astronomical objects tagged in their paper. See http://vizier.u-strasbg.fr/viz-bin/Object
Editorial Board
See also Website of the Board of Directors of A&A.
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
C. BERTOUT
Astronomy & Astrophysics Editorial Office
Observatoire de Paris,
61 avenue de l'Observatoire
F-75014 Paris
France
Tel.: (33-1) 43 29 05 41
Fax: (33-1) 43 29 05 57
e-mail: aanda.paris@obspm.fr
Editorial Assistants: Mrs J. MARTIN and Mrs. M. ROUGEOT
ASSOCIATE EDITORS
J.E. Beckman
F. Combes
A. Jones
N. Langer
W. Schmidt
S.N. Shore
M. Walmsley (Associate Editor-in-Chief)
LETTER EDITOR
P. SCHNEIDER
Astronomy & Astrophysics Letters Editorial Office
Institut für Astrophysik
Universität Bonn
Auf dem Hügel 71
D-53121 Bonn
Germany
Tel.: (49) 228-73 36 75
Fax: (49) 228-73 19 11
e-mail: aal@aanda.astro.uni-bonn.de
Editorial Assistant: Mrs. N. SCHMIDT
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Chairman: Aa. Sandqvist (Sweden)
Vice Chairman: P.E. Nissen (Denmark)
M. Arnould (Belgium)
K.S. de Boer (Germany)
M. Breger (Austria)
C. Cesarsky (ESO)
G. di Cocco (Italy)
M. Créz?(France)
E.J. de Geus (The Netherlands)
P. Harmanec (Czech Republic)
L. Leedjärv (Estonia)
G. Meynet (Switzerland)
F. Moreno-Insertis (Spain)
M. Paparo (Hungary)
H. Sol (France)
I. Tuominen (Finland)
R. Tylenda (Poland)
J. Ventura (Greece)
A. Zensus (Germany)
J. Zverko (Slovak Republic)
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