Precise Frequencies of H_2^16O Lines Protected for Radio Astronomy
(2025) The Astrophysical Journal. Supplement Series — Vol. 280, n° 2, p. 47 (2025)
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Tóbiás, Roland 
Diouf, Meissa L. Ubachs, Wim
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- Precise frequency values have been determined for H2 O 16 radio lines appearing in protected line lists of the International Astronomical Union and the Panel on Frequency Allocations of the US National Academy of Sciences. The improved precision is attributable to a spectroscopic network built from a large set of near-infrared Lamb-dip lines augmented with a handful of ultra-high-accuracy rotational transitions. The ultraprecise H2 O 16 network contains 376 Lamb-dip lines recorded previously via our frequency-comb-locked cavity-enhanced spectrometer. During the present study, a total of 55 target lines have been (re)measured at high accuracy. Due to our network-assisted measurements, the accuracy has been significantly improved with respect to previous direct radio-frequency measurements for all the protected lines of H2 O16 above 750 GHz. Furthermore, 43 of these protected transitions now benefit from the accuracy of the new near-infrared Lamb dips reported in this paper.
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Altman, A., Tóbiás, R., Bogomolov, A., Diouf, M. L., Cozijn, F., Császár, A. G., Lauzin, C., & Ubachs, W. (2025). Precise Frequencies of H_2^16O Lines Protected for Radio Astronomy. The Astrophysical Journal. Supplement Series, 280(2), 47. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4365/adfc68 (Original work published 2025)