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pith:OGDLRDQT

pith:1996:OGDLRDQT7WGWK5KJK3TK6DY4AW
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The Opacity of the Lyman Alpha Forest and Implications for Omega_{baryon} and the Ionizing Background

D. H. Weinberg, J. Miralda-Escude, J. P. Ostriker, L. Hernquist, M. Rauch, N. Katz, R. Cen, T. A. Barlow, W. L. W. Sargent

arxiv:astro-ph/9612245 v1 · 1996-12-31 · astro-ph

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First computed 2026-07-04T15:48:11.921742Z
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Canonical hash

7186b88e13fd8d65754956e6af0f1c059b5d78d592c24440545567a370cd99e2

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/9612245 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/9612245v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/9612245 · pith_short_12: OGDLRDQT7WGW · pith_short_16: OGDLRDQT7WGWK5KJ · pith_short_8: OGDLRDQT
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Verify this Pith Number yourself
curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/OGDLRDQT7WGWK5KJK3TK6DY4AW \
  | 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: 7186b88e13fd8d65754956e6af0f1c059b5d78d592c24440545567a370cd99e2
Canonical record JSON
{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "5185286fd84dd2da6e60de1cc6b6900fe52139e750f1a4a3ebeea26940114986",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1996-12-31T18:23:05Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e4f9e97dad896707f7bceba52dfb1c46e07412f80ee7a0f0cd7ba84c81bfa7d4"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/9612245",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}