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Addendum: Phosphine gas in the cloud deck of Venus

Jane S. Greaves, Anita M. S. Richards, William Bains et al., 2021. Nature Astronomy 5(7), 726–728.

Records that standard ALMA calibration was unsuitable for so bright a target and that the observatory issued a revised calibration; re-tests the JCMT line, finding the line minimum at 4.8 sigma against the baseline uncertainty (about 3 sigma under Snellen et al.'s definition).

MYS0CQY1PJR4XT7 · mystery · click to copyMPhosphine in the clouds of VenusArticledoi: 10.1038/s41550-021-01423-yChecked against the original0

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The calibration problem and the revised significance of the JCMT line.

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Greaves, J. S., Richards, A. M. S., Bains, W., Rimmer, P. B., & et al. (2021). Addendum: Phosphine gas in the cloud deck of Venus. Nature Astronomy 5(7), 726–728. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41550-021-01423-y
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