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pith:4PAFI4LB

pith:2016:4PAFI4LBCXLSLIPADZELJ5TQ2K
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AstroSat - a multi-wavelength astronomy satellite

A. R. Rao, D. Bhattacharya, K. P. Singh

arxiv:1608.06051 v1 · 2016-08-22 · astro-ph.IM

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First computed 2026-05-18T01:08:22.449657Z
Builder pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature Pith Ed25519 (pith-v1-2026-05) · public key
Schema pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e3c054716115d725a1e01e48b4f670d281fea1c7029e09bb7e070bc1dd093345

Aliases

arxiv: 1608.06051 · arxiv_version: 1608.06051v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1608.06051 · pith_short_12: 4PAFI4LBCXLS · pith_short_16: 4PAFI4LBCXLSLIPA · pith_short_8: 4PAFI4LB
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Verify this Pith Number yourself
curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/4PAFI4LBCXLSLIPADZELJ5TQ2K \
  | 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: e3c054716115d725a1e01e48b4f670d281fea1c7029e09bb7e070bc1dd093345
Canonical record JSON
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    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.IM",
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