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pith:2008:RSYGC4TAXLS2SWFELKE6P47PV3
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Temperature Differences in the Cepheid Instability Strip Require Differences in the Period-Luminosity Relation in Slope and Zero Point

Allan Sandage (Observatories of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, Astronomy, CA, Pasadena, Switzerland), Univ. of Basel, USA) G. A. Tammann (Dept. of Physics

arxiv:0803.3836 v1 · 2008-03-26 · astro-ph

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Canonical hash

8cb0617260bae5a958a45a89e7f3efaef1689af957c152c524843b0dc5e5a4a1

Aliases

arxiv: 0803.3836 · arxiv_version: 0803.3836v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.0803.3836 · pith_short_12: RSYGC4TAXLS2 · pith_short_16: RSYGC4TAXLS2SWFE · pith_short_8: RSYGC4TA
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Verify this Pith Number yourself
curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/RSYGC4TAXLS2SWFELKE6P47PV3 \
  | 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: 8cb0617260bae5a958a45a89e7f3efaef1689af957c152c524843b0dc5e5a4a1
Canonical record JSON
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    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2008-03-26T22:38:44Z",
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  },
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