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pith:2004:BMN6DUAGSEL4REBACIO6QVOACD
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The distribution and cosmic evolution of massive black hole spins

Eliot Quataert, Marta Volonteri, & Martin Rees, Piero Madau

arxiv:astro-ph/0410342 v1 · 2004-10-14 · astro-ph

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Canonical hash

0b1be1d0069117c89020121de855c010daa71bf3c0be939a94e56411cdd36ea0

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/0410342 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/0410342v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/0410342 · pith_short_12: BMN6DUAGSEL4 · pith_short_16: BMN6DUAGSEL4REBA · pith_short_8: BMN6DUAG
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Verify this Pith Number yourself
curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/BMN6DUAGSEL4REBACIO6QVOACD \
  | 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: 0b1be1d0069117c89020121de855c010daa71bf3c0be939a94e56411cdd36ea0
Canonical record JSON
{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "26f905f573aba75b168c5d2d4b5eb579795d0d83d7fcb7d41379aa1ffbd46ed5",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2004-10-14T00:49:19Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "0c478d742b978b44392ee7482fbbd8870428d2eb6b10ac0c41b5a4b78d96c587"
  },
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  "source": {
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    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}