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pith:2009:LA3RPRM3MXLXNCCHH4CDKM3DLD
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The Effect of Mass Ratio on the Morphology and Time-scales of Disc Galaxy Mergers

Jennifer M. Lotz (NOAO), Joel R. Primack (UCSC), Patrik Jonsson (UCSC), T.J. Cox (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)

arxiv:0912.1590 v1 · 2009-12-08 · astro-ph.CO

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583717c59b65d77688473f0435336358ed582c3e9558843416942c9d6181d54e

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arxiv: 0912.1590 · arxiv_version: 0912.1590v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.0912.1590 · pith_short_12: LA3RPRM3MXLX · pith_short_16: LA3RPRM3MXLXNCCH · pith_short_8: LA3RPRM3
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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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Canonical record JSON
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