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  • 1Purple Mountain Observatory, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, China; Chinese Center for Antarctic Astronomy, Nanjing 210008, China; School of Astronomy and Space Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230029, China.

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