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Caption: Figure 23.
The observed hyperfine intensity ratios and their uncertainties for HCN (1–0) and N2H+ (1–0). The solid line represents the locus of LTE ratios for various optical depths, with optically thin ratios (0.2, 0.6) at the lower left, and optically thick ratios (1.0, 1.0) at the upper right.
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