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Article Contents
1 Introduction: The Galactic hidden matter problem and the baryons
2 Detection mode of extended H2 clouds: Principle
3 Refraction by Galactic hidden gas
4 Diffractive scintillation: Fresnel diffraction applied to a stellar source and a Galactic screen
5 Diffractive scintillation: A simple, pedagogical (and realistic) screen example
6 General discussion of the scintillation regimes
7 Possible configurations for detectable diffractive scintillation
8 Optical depths and event rates for diffractive and refractive scintillations
9 Feasibility of observations
10 Foreground effects, background to the signal
11 Observation specifications and strategy
12 Data flow and analysis
13 Studies to be done, developments and perspectives
14 Conclusions
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