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pith:RD5Z7MQ4

pith:2018:RD5Z7MQ4OKJOXQ3OPA43VO7LES

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A Model for Anisotropic Interstellar Scattering and its Application to Sgr A*

Dimitrios Psaltis, Geoff Bower, Lia Medeiros, Lindy Blackburn, Michael Johnson, Ramesh Narayan

arxiv:1805.01242 v1 · 2018-05-03 · astro-ph.HE

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:16:52.089525Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

88fb9fb21c7292ebc36e7839babbeb249db34f18407819d34ce5885cb318cddf

Aliases

arxiv: 1805.01242 · arxiv_version: 1805.01242v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1805.01242 · pith_short_12: RD5Z7MQ4OKJO · pith_short_16: RD5Z7MQ4OKJOXQ3O · pith_short_8: RD5Z7MQ4

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curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/RD5Z7MQ4OKJOXQ3OPA43VO7LES \
  | 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: 88fb9fb21c7292ebc36e7839babbeb249db34f18407819d34ce5885cb318cddf

Canonical record JSON

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  "metadata": {
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    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.HE",
    "submitted_at": "2018-05-03T11:56:47Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "826e5e64bfc45ee2794f7d5f7e948e928789c0a5e801572d1004def3011da4fd"
  },
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  "source": {
    "id": "1805.01242",
    "kind": "arxiv",
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  }
}