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pith:2003:E6W2DPL5IFS6HAIZI22W2ILVBW
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Surveying the Inner Halo of the Galaxy with 2MASS-Selected Horizontal Branch Candidates

(2) Michigan State University), J. B. Roll (1) ((1) Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, M. J. Geller (1), M. J. Kurtz (1), S. J. Kenyon (1), T. C. Beers (2), Warren R. Brown (1)

arxiv:astro-ph/0309794 v2 · 2003-09-29 · astro-ph

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Canonical hash

27ada1bd7d4165e3811946b56d21750d843764ede4780d753bff44d100d2dabc

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/0309794 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/0309794v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/0309794 · pith_short_12: E6W2DPL5IFS6 · pith_short_16: E6W2DPL5IFS6HAIZ · pith_short_8: E6W2DPL5
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Verify this Pith Number yourself
curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/E6W2DPL5IFS6HAIZI22W2ILVBW \
  | 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: 27ada1bd7d4165e3811946b56d21750d843764ede4780d753bff44d100d2dabc
Canonical record JSON
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    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2003-09-29T20:07:31Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b64184b465837b53516a6d694e95130d9e56f0133d8910dbcab86b7b5c84dff5"
  },
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  "source": {
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    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
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