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pith:2019:RUPY6JMZADTZUT54EUV4UFFOCJ
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Near-infrared spectroscopy of the massive stellar population of W51: evidence for multi-seeded star formation

A. Bik, A. Pasquali, A. Stolte, M. Zhang, S. -W. Wu, Th. Henning, W. Brandner

arxiv:1902.05460 v1 · 2019-02-14 · astro-ph.SR · astro-ph.GA

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8d1f8f259900e79a4fbc252bca14ae127e2eaaed83c9c619821d28808975fcbb

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arxiv: 1902.05460 · arxiv_version: 1902.05460v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1902.05460 · pith_short_12: RUPY6JMZADTZ · pith_short_16: RUPY6JMZADTZUT54 · pith_short_8: RUPY6JMZ
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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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