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UP to the present at Tromsoe and Oslo we have observed and measured about 170 vibrational bands and atomic lines in the auroral luminescence; but only the somewhat stronger ones have been obtained with spectrographs having a dispersion sufficiently great to give the wave-length with the accuracy wanted for a reliable identification of the lines.
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VEGARD, L. An Auroral Spectrogram Obtained at Oslo on February 23. Nature 165, 1012–1013 (1950). https://doi.org/10.1038/1651012c0
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