Astronomy Reports -- August 2005

The Minimum Stellar Mass in Early Galaxies
E. O. Vasil'ev and Yu. A. Shchekinov
pp. 587-594    Full Text: PDF (215 kB)

Determination of the Chemical Composition in HII Regions of Blue Compact Dwarf Galaxies Using an Optimized Photoionization Modeling Method
V. V. Holovatyi and B. Ya. Melekh
pp. 595-603    Full Text: PDF (241 kB)

The Motion of Halo Stars in Dynamical Numerical Models of Open Clusters
V. M. Danilov
pp. 604-610    Full Text: PDF (179 kB)

The Afterglow of a Dense Molecular Cloud after the Passage of a Cosmological Gamma-Ray Burst
M. V. Barkov and G. S. Bisnovatyi-Kogan
pp. 611-623    Full Text: PDF (685 kB)

Masers in the Cool Molecular Cloud L 379
M. I. Pashchenko and E. E. Lekht
pp. 624-633    Full Text: PDF (544 kB)

Meridional Circulation in Young Massive Stars with Laminar Rotation
E. I. Staritsin
pp. 634-643    Full Text: PDF (291 kB)

The Mass Spectrum of Black Holes in Close Binary Systems
A. I. Bogomazov, M. K. Abubekerov, and V. M. Lipunov
pp. 644-653    Full Text: PDF (221 kB)

The Phase Matrix for Scattering in a Weak Magnetic Field. The Hanle Effect
D. N. Rachkovskii
pp. 654-658    Full Text: PDF (160 kB)

Quasibiennial Oscillations of the North–South Asymmetry
O. G. Badalyan, V. N. Obridko, J. Rybák, and J. Sýkora
pp. 659-670    Full Text: PDF (1395 kB)