Comment on "calculated vibrational states of ozone up to dissociation" [J. Chem. Phys. 144, 074302 (2016)]

Researchers shared their views on the findings of the ‘calculated vibrational states of ozone up to dissociation’ study. They found that for the atomic mass calculation, we found that our computed energy levels agree with those of the original authors of the study. The researchers observed that their vibrational levels computed using nuclear masses showed the opposite trend than that of the original study. It was also observed that specifically, for two isotopes of oxygen, ¹⁶O and ¹⁷O, the masses used in the original study corresponded to the bare nuclei, while for the ¹⁸O isotope, the atomic mass was used as reported.