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High accuracy calculations that achieve ``spectroscopic accuracy\"\" (i.e. energy levels and spectra that are accurate to < 1 cm-1) are only possible for a select few molecular systems, and as such these systems are of great fundamental interest as they serve as test cases for state-of-the-art computational methods and strategies for solving the molecular Schrodinger equation. However, in order for these pioneering theoretical approaches to be validated, high-quality experimental spectroscopic data are required for the purpose of benchmarking the calculations. Many of these fundamentally interesting systems are molecular ions making spectroscopic investigations on them particularly challenging due to the difficulty in creating significant quantities of them. To overcome this obstacle, sensitive spectroscopic techniques are required. 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High accuracy calculations that achieve ``spectroscopic accuracy&quot;&quot; (i.e. energy levels and spectra that are accurate to &lt; 1 cm-1) are only possible for a select few molecular systems, and as such these systems are of great fundamental interest as they serve as test cases for state-of-the-art computational methods and strategies for solving the molecular Schrodinger equation. However, in order for these pioneering theoretical approaches to be validated, high-quality experimental spectroscopic data are required for the purpose of benchmarking the calculations. Many of these fundamentally interesting systems are molecular ions making spectroscopic investigations on them particularly challenging due to the difficulty in creating significant quantities of them. To overcome this obstacle, sensitive spectroscopic techniques are required. 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In doing so, rovibrational transition rest frequencies with MHz-level level uncertainty (an improvement over previous measurements by two orders of magnitude) are presented. 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