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pith:GKPSM6MO

pith:2009:GKPSM6MOB5XI2MECTZZN7T5GVB
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Discovery of a weak magnetic field in the photosphere of the single giant Pollux

C. Catala, C. Charbonnel, C.P. Folsom, E. Alecian, G.A. Wade, J.-F. Donati, J. Power, M. Auriere, P. Petit, R. Cabanac, R. Konstantinova-Antova, S. Van Eck, T. Roudier, W. W. Weiss

arxiv:0907.1423 v1 · 2009-07-09 · astro-ph.SR

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First computed 2026-05-18T02:13:04.447027Z
Builder pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
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Canonical hash

329f26798e0f6e8d30829e72dfcfa6a84490b6f3f75227ada86412c0f34d7f01

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arxiv: 0907.1423 · arxiv_version: 0907.1423v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.0907.1423 · pith_short_12: GKPSM6MOB5XI · pith_short_16: GKPSM6MOB5XI2MEC · pith_short_8: GKPSM6MO
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Verify this Pith Number yourself
curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/GKPSM6MOB5XI2MECTZZN7T5GVB \
  | 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: 329f26798e0f6e8d30829e72dfcfa6a84490b6f3f75227ada86412c0f34d7f01
Canonical record JSON
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