Submitted by PHealthy t3_124xb33 in askscience
seriousnotshirley t1_je2h9rb wrote
Reply to comment by adamginsburg in Is NaCl relatively common in the galaxy/universe? by PHealthy
It was 15 years ago so I probably mis-remembered it. My chem professor did a lot of rotational spectroscopy and had invited someone from HEXOS to give a presentation.
I know the stuff I looked at at room temp looked like a bunch of noise. I tried writing some algorithms to help fix parameters of the molecule to match observed spectra and it went badly above something like 50 K. I'm surprised you were able to pick out transitions near a star! Nice work.
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