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pith:F3KV3GKY

pith:2012:F3KV3GKYFCTGMILM5IKAJZMTDH
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Cosmic dust in MgII absorbers

Brice M\'enard, Masataka Fukugita

arxiv:1204.1978 v2 · 2012-04-09 · astro-ph.CO · astro-ph.GA

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Canonical hash

2ed55d995828a666216cea1404e59319f3e5a8d83a70be00a7e2a4e4c84fc920

Aliases

arxiv: 1204.1978 · arxiv_version: 1204.1978v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1204.1978 · pith_short_12: F3KV3GKYFCTG · pith_short_16: F3KV3GKYFCTGMILM · pith_short_8: F3KV3GKY
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Verify this Pith Number yourself
curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/F3KV3GKYFCTGMILM5IKAJZMTDH \
  | 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: 2ed55d995828a666216cea1404e59319f3e5a8d83a70be00a7e2a4e4c84fc920
Canonical record JSON
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  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a6b38d58a5818e6123a02fd29ead03532b24a05eea8ee9ca89266deb988a596e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.GA"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.CO",
    "submitted_at": "2012-04-09T20:00:05Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "58827587e03ed9c6d4d3bf7ddf0e37a476c0ac9d56e3c871fa7ffb1e9ebac91e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1204.1978",
    "kind": "arxiv",
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  }
}