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pith:5LWDGLPC

pith:2018:5LWDGLPCAFTGSDDYBVZRJYHGRO
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Steep Hard-X-ray Spectra Indicate Extremely High Accretion Rates in Weak Emission-Line Quasars

(2) U. Washington, (3) Penn State U., (4) Bates College, (5) U. Arizona, (6) Nanjing U., (7) ICRAR-Curtin, (8) Drexel U., (9) Xiamen U.), A.M. Diamond-Stanic (4), Andrea Marlar (1), B. Luo (6), Donald P. Schneider (3), Gordon T. Richards (8), Jianfeng Wu (9) ((1) U. North Texas, Ohad Shemmer (1), R.M. Plotkin (7), S.F. Anderson (2), W.N. Brandt (3), X. Fan (5)

arxiv:1808.01306 v1 · 2018-08-03 · astro-ph.HE · astro-ph.CO · astro-ph.GA

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First computed 2026-05-18T00:03:45.883931Z
Builder pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature Pith Ed25519 (pith-v1-2026-05) · public key
Schema pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

eaec332de20166690c780d7314e0e68b8cad2c1f05667efc58723592d50226c7

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arxiv: 1808.01306 · arxiv_version: 1808.01306v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1808.01306 · pith_short_12: 5LWDGLPCAFTG · pith_short_16: 5LWDGLPCAFTGSDDY · pith_short_8: 5LWDGLPC
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curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/5LWDGLPCAFTGSDDYBVZRJYHGRO \
  | 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: eaec332de20166690c780d7314e0e68b8cad2c1f05667efc58723592d50226c7
Canonical record JSON
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