[kortex]

Very cool finding that IMHO goes beyond coincidence. Some are saying the authors compared "two completely different plots" - this is a strange thing to say. Both plots have an X axis of wavelength, that's obviously the same. There's some ambiguity of the units on the Y axis, since the BB is in W/m^3 while histogram is unitless.

However it's really not a stretch to consider the BB as some relative intensity. So it's totally reasonable to overlay these plots.

A possible way to reconcile this would be to model some gas mixture composition and determine the aggregate spectra of that, and that would be in W/m^3.

E: downvote(s), do you have a rebuttal, or just think I'm wrong?