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At room temperature, the gas phase molecular spectroscopy of polyatomic molecules is dramatically limited by the rotational congestion. The discovery, more than twenty five years ago of the rotational cooling effect in supersonic jets, combined with laser techniques [1], has renewed molecular spectroscopy. The study of supersonic jets belongs traditionally to fluid dynamic. The connection with molecular spectroscopists has been slow, mainly because the behaviour of the internal degrees of freedom of polyatomic molecules in a jet is of a minor importance for fluid dynamic.
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Jost, R. (1996). The Cooling Of Internal Degrees Of Freedom Of Polyatomic Molecules in Supersonic Free Jets. In: Fausto, R. (eds) Low Temperature Molecular Spectroscopy. NATO ASI Series, vol 483. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-0281-7_10
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