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pith:3BEAS4CG

pith:2006:3BEAS4CGBU3J7TASJAVVIG2FEN
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The Relation Between Quasar and Merging Galaxy Luminosity Functions and the Merger-Induced Star Formation Rate of the Universe

(2) MPIA), Brant Robertson (1), Lars Hernquist (1), Philip F. Hopkins (1), Rachel S. Somerville (2), Thomas J. Cox (1), & Yuexing Li (1) ((1) Harvard/CfA

arxiv:astro-ph/0602290 v3 · 2006-02-13 · astro-ph

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First computed 2026-05-18T04:29:05.022526Z
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Schema pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d8480970460d369fcc12482b541b45236775a5885852f0cb342ff3248b1eb6a1

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/0602290 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/0602290v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/0602290 · pith_short_12: 3BEAS4CGBU3J · pith_short_16: 3BEAS4CGBU3J7TAS · pith_short_8: 3BEAS4CG
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Verify this Pith Number yourself
curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/3BEAS4CGBU3J7TASJAVVIG2FEN \
  | 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: d8480970460d369fcc12482b541b45236775a5885852f0cb342ff3248b1eb6a1
Canonical record JSON
{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "004ab1802275f7cd010c29af59edfbbba8d15a45d48d31889f413daf627e9e68",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2006-02-13T21:40:48Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "13dbed3e9e97a6973c112a17458836566d206d10359b8094851707634f05a0ce"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
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    "kind": "arxiv",
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  }
}