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pith:2018:OXDXYMLAR4U7F5DCE4L2IRHCNF
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The evolution of the UV-to-mm extragalactic background light: evidence for a top-heavy initial mass function?

4) ((1) Kapteyn Astronomical Institute, Carlos S. Frenk (2), Carlton M. Baugh (2), Cedric G. Lacey (2), Claudia del P. Lagos (3, Copenhagen), Durham University (3) ICRAR, Shaun Cole (2), University of Groningen (2) ICC, UWA (4) ASTRO3D (5) DAWN, William. I. Cowley (1)

arxiv:1808.05208 v4 · 2018-08-15 · astro-ph.GA

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Canonical hash

75c77c31608f29f2f4622717a444e26961d2847e42cd461da8a3a53bb1a6d42b

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arxiv: 1808.05208 · arxiv_version: 1808.05208v4 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1808.05208 · pith_short_12: OXDXYMLAR4U7 · pith_short_16: OXDXYMLAR4U7F5DC · pith_short_8: OXDXYMLA
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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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