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pith:6MA2TKOY

pith:2016:6MA2TKOYXSDXDCKVUEF7HOHOVE

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High-Resolution Imaging of Water Maser Emission in the active galaxies NGC 6240 and M51

Philip G. Edwards, Yoshiaki Hagiwara

arxiv:1602.02534 v1 · 2016-02-08 · astro-ph.GA

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\pithnumber{6MA2TKOYXSDXDCKVUEF7HOHOVE}

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First computed	2026-05-18T01:20:32.011456Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

f301a9a9d8bc87718955a10bf3b8eea917f1979683364cfbf3dee29baf2eae48

Aliases

arxiv: 1602.02534 · arxiv_version: 1602.02534v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1602.02534 · pith_short_12: 6MA2TKOYXSDX · pith_short_16: 6MA2TKOYXSDXDCKV · pith_short_8: 6MA2TKOY

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/6MA2TKOYXSDXDCKVUEF7HOHOVE \
  | 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: f301a9a9d8bc87718955a10bf3b8eea917f1979683364cfbf3dee29baf2eae48

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "17ed5a8ae6b698fb3571795116a211ab53e62226a7f7a9e01903694a87ce2699",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2016-02-08T11:42:09Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "60dcea7ce1e033dabee5fd462035e7e626ff7ab473c766b9bdc59a60316f628e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1602.02534",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}