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Caption: Fig. 1.
Origin band of the ﹩^{2}\Pi \leftarrow X^{2}\Pi ﹩ electronic transition of C﹩_{6}﹩H in the gas phase (bottom) compared to astronomical spectra measured toward five different stars. The absorption features observed in the latter are stellar lines.
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