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5 August 2025 at 12:18 pm #630893
Robin Leadbeater
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So no detectable gas. (The positioning of the label in fig 2 indicating the band where CN should appear is unfortunate. At a casual glance it looks like the hot pixel there is a signal. Given that they took 6 spectra it is surprising they did not remove them)