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Radio spectroscopy has provided extensive surveys of the 21 cm line of atomic hydrogen, H i (see Kalberla et al. 2005) and the rotational \(J = 1 - 0\) line from the ground state of carbon monoxide (see Dame et al. 2001) for the Milky Way galaxy.
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Wilson, T.L., Rohlfs, K., Hüttemeister, S. (2013). Spectral Line Fundamentals. In: Tools of Radio Astronomy. Astronomy and Astrophysics Library. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-39950-3_12
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