{"paper":{"title":"The First Detection of Blue Straggler Stars in the Milky Way Bulge","arxiv_id":"1105.4176","primary_cat":"astro-ph.GA","submitted_at":"2011-05-20T21:00:22+00:00","version_compiled":"v1"},"notice":"Every quoted sentence is the authors' text from the arXiv listing abstract. Labels and probabilities are the outputs of classifier-1.13-20260917 on the question bank abstract-p1-20260923, exactly as returned. 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