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pith:2016:L4HR5OSLQFEH2JSSPPEDFLQTND
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Spitzer Observations Confirm and Rescue the Habitable-Zone Super-Earth K2-18b for Future Characterization

Andrew W. Howard, Bj\"orn Benneke, Charles Beichman, Courtney Dressing, David R. Ciardi, Erik Petigura, Evan Sinukoff, Heather Knutson, Ian J. M. Crossfield, Jessica Krick, Jessie Christiansen, John Livingston, Joshua E. Schlieder, Michael Werner, Rachel L. Akeson, Varoujan Gorjian

arxiv:1610.07249 v1 · 2016-10-24 · astro-ph.EP

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5f0f1eba4b81487d26527bc832ae1368c45565831e2ed66d8f03a4f59b10701b

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arxiv: 1610.07249 · arxiv_version: 1610.07249v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1610.07249 · pith_short_12: L4HR5OSLQFEH · pith_short_16: L4HR5OSLQFEH2JSS · pith_short_8: L4HR5OSL
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  | 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())"
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