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pith:2000:N5ZFFPASFCBH33GIP2M7V3V2WG
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The Reionization of the Universe by the First Stars and Quasars

Abraham Loeb (Harvard University), Princeton NJ), Rennan Barkana (IAS

arxiv:astro-ph/0010467 v1 · 2000-10-23 · astro-ph

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First computed 2026-07-04T16:17:27.107080Z
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Canonical hash

6f7252bc1228827decc87e99faeebab1b14356817577d5d7afb48826ab39819b

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/0010467 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/0010467v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/0010467 · pith_short_12: N5ZFFPASFCBH · pith_short_16: N5ZFFPASFCBH33GI · pith_short_8: N5ZFFPAS
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Verify this Pith Number yourself
curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/N5ZFFPASFCBH33GIP2M7V3V2WG \
  | 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: 6f7252bc1228827decc87e99faeebab1b14356817577d5d7afb48826ab39819b
Canonical record JSON
{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "0f682c76a82746276db2b345845ef0575e08bf343d41fc31fe460dfae3cfdbca",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2000-10-23T23:00:06Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "4eafcfae49e4344ed593f9a449ad89d7901dc7ba34a17ac562a10cf6588d40bd"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/0010467",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}