Astrophysics

As might be expected, the aforementioned spectroscopy of small fundamental molecules was the foundations of molecular astrophysics. However, the difficulty of modeling highly perturbed excited vibrational states resulted in many lines missing from the quantum mechanically calculated astrophysical catalogs.

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