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MASARU FUKUSHIMA AND TAKASHI ISHIWATA, Faculty of Information Sciences, Hiroshima City University, Asa-Minami, Hiroshima 731-3194, Japan.

We have generated MgNC in supersonic free jet expansions, and measured the laser induced fluorescence excitation spectra of the Mg-N-C bending vibronic bands of the A ² -- X ^{2 +} transition. In addition to the two vibronic bands, 2₀¹, ² ^(+) -- and 2₀², ² -- ^{2 +}, reported by Wright and Miller, the 2₀², µ ² _\frac12 -- ^{2 +} sub-band were found just above the 2₀¹ vibronic band. The most remarkable feature of this newly observed sub-band is unexpected rotational structure on the upper vibronic level, A (020) µ ² _\frac12; i.e.~the rotational levels show splitting into the e and f sub-levels and have different rotational constants on the each rotational sub-level. Introducing the Coriolis coupling terms of -J^\pmG^\mp and S^\pmG^\mp, which could be called the G-uncoupling operator and the spin-Coriolis interaction, respectively, into the rotational Hamiltonian, this unexpected rotational structure has been analyzed quite reasonably.