Discovery of water vapour in the carbon star V Cygni from observations with Herschel/HIFI*
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D. A. Neufeld1, E. González-Alfonso2, G. Melnick3, M. Pułecka4, M. Schmidt4, R. Szczerba4, V. Bujarrabal5, J. Alcolea6, J. Cernicharo7, L. Decin8,9, C. Dominik9,15, K. Justtanont10, A. de Koter9,16, A. P. Marston11, K. Menten12, H. Olofsson10,13, P. Planesas5,14, F. L. Schöier10, D. Teyssier11, L. B. F. M. Waters9,8, K. Edwards17, C. McCoey17, R. Shipman18, W. Jellema18, T. de Graauw19, V. Ossenkopf20, R. Schieder20, and S. Philipp12
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