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Re-analysis of the 267 GHz ALMA observations of Venus

I. A. G. Snellen, L. Guzman-Ramirez, M. R. Hogerheijde et al., 2020. Astronomy & Astrophysics 644, L2.

Reduces the ALMA data with the published scripts and shows that the 12th-order polynomial used to flatten the passband creates spurious lines: following the recipe, five other features above 10 sigma appear within 60 km/s of the phosphine frequency. Independent analysis finds a feature at about 2 sigma.

MYS0CQY1PJR4XT7 · mystery · click to copyMPhosphine in the clouds of VenusArticledoi: 10.1051/0004-6361/202039717Checked against the original0

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The central methodological critique of the ALMA detection.

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Snellen, I. A. G., Guzman-Ramirez, L., Hogerheijde, M. R., Hygate, A. P. S., & van der Tak, F. F. S. (2020). Re-analysis of the 267 GHz ALMA observations of Venus. Astronomy & Astrophysics 644, L2. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202039717
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