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pith:2012:KCS4NPJW2FE2RJNSF7FGHYRTNF
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Further Evidence that Quasar X-Ray Emitting Regions Are Compact: X-Ray and Optical Microlensing in the Lensed Quasar Q J0158-4325

Ana M. Mosquera, Bin Chen, Christopher S. Kochanek, Christopher W. Morgan, Frederic Courbin, George Chartas, Georges Meylan, Jeffrey A. Blackburne, Laura J. Hainline, Malte Tewes, Szymon Kozlowski, Xinyu Dai

arxiv:1205.4727 v1 · 2012-05-21 · astro-ph.CO

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Canonical hash

50a5c6bd36d149a8a5b22fca63e23369778eaf0a4c7740e80da4778ddf81f2aa

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arxiv: 1205.4727 · arxiv_version: 1205.4727v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1205.4727 · pith_short_12: KCS4NPJW2FE2 · pith_short_16: KCS4NPJW2FE2RJNS · pith_short_8: KCS4NPJW
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curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/KCS4NPJW2FE2RJNSF7FGHYRTNF \
  | 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: 50a5c6bd36d149a8a5b22fca63e23369778eaf0a4c7740e80da4778ddf81f2aa
Canonical record JSON
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