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pith:1994:A42E72LKSY2UI4TXTGSJ5PMCXX
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Gravitational Collapse of Small-Scale Structure as the Origin of the Lyman Alpha Forest

Jeremiah P. Ostriker, Jordi Miralda-Escude, Michael Rauch (Princeton University Observatory, NJ USA), Princeton, Renyue Cen

arxiv:astro-ph/9409017 v1 · 1994-09-08 · astro-ph

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Canonical hash

07344fe96a963544727799a49ebd82bdef519c169b9e29c04b78f1626985ad7e

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arxiv: astro-ph/9409017 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/9409017v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/9409017 · pith_short_12: A42E72LKSY2U · pith_short_16: A42E72LKSY2UI4TX · pith_short_8: A42E72LK
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Verify this Pith Number yourself
curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/A42E72LKSY2UI4TXTGSJ5PMCXX \
  | 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: 07344fe96a963544727799a49ebd82bdef519c169b9e29c04b78f1626985ad7e
Canonical record JSON
{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "4d38a361a0e2ce5d3705b0024d4e0cdd38d75d8040a6e15ceae0f25b5ed56be3",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1994-09-08T14:45:33Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "3ee48f68fbc8745e4df2d38077f1d50e0d3bec5e8d02ec8fa82d88bf162f8335"
  },
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  "source": {
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    "kind": "arxiv",
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  }
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