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The "Terrascope": On the Possibility of Using the Earth as an Atmospheric Lens

David Kipping

arxiv:1908.00490 v2 · 2019-08-01 · astro-ph.IM · astro-ph.EP

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arxiv: 1908.00490 · arxiv_version: 1908.00490v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1908.00490 · pith_short_12: RLVBJBW75ZVE · pith_short_16: RLVBJBW75ZVESFC5 · pith_short_8: RLVBJBW7
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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())"
# expect: 8aea1486dfee6a49145de8bacf9e42491a6090781b6ddae6d90c2ea79fd556bb
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