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A Method for Unravelling Complex Spectra

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ONE of the central features of any spectroscopic investigation is the problem of unscrambling the patterns of lines. In general one has some knowledge of individual line shades and the physical principles through which the spectra are built up, but one does not know how the particular components or line patterns are intermixed and shifted with respect to one another. This communication describes a systematic correlation method for decomposing complex, high-resolution spectra made up of many interleaving and overlapping lines.

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  1. Department of Chemistry, Princeton University, and Bell Telephone Laboratories, Murray Hill, New Jersey

    LELAND C. ALLEN

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ALLEN, L. A Method for Unravelling Complex Spectra. Nature 196, 663–664 (1962). https://doi.org/10.1038/196663a0

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