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pith:2018:36OVKVFNTBZXG53XKPR5IIMQIX
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Challenges in reconciling observations and theory of the brightest high-energy flare ever of 3C 279

Bottacini, Dario Gasparrini, Elena Pian, Markus B\"ottcher, Werner Collmar

arxiv:1807.04046 v1 · 2018-07-11 · astro-ph.HE

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First computed 2026-05-18T00:10:58.194176Z
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Canonical hash

df9d5554ad987373777753e3d4219045e17a9f4c8bec417fce3db68e6b3a8e88

Aliases

arxiv: 1807.04046 · arxiv_version: 1807.04046v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1807.04046 · pith_short_12: 36OVKVFNTBZX · pith_short_16: 36OVKVFNTBZXG53X · pith_short_8: 36OVKVFN
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Verify this Pith Number yourself
curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/36OVKVFNTBZXG53XKPR5IIMQIX \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: df9d5554ad987373777753e3d4219045e17a9f4c8bec417fce3db68e6b3a8e88
Canonical record JSON
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    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.HE",
    "submitted_at": "2018-07-11T09:56:30Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b4e3efcfbe4322a83e686c7a5c520634e21a9957aad652ccf8fffbbb13f86f1c"
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  }
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