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pith:2009:U2FWJHCZV5K4HPLGW7KPB75LTH
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The Effect of Gas Fraction on the Morphology and Time-scales of Disc Galaxy Mergers

Jennifer M. Lotz (NOAO), Joel R. Primack (UCSC), Patrik Jonsson (UCSC), T.J. Cox (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)

arxiv:0912.1593 v1 · 2009-12-08 · astro-ph.CO

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Canonical hash

a68b649c59af55c3bd66b7d4f0ffab99f2b8779ad52b1e2152a1f854298b09ec

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arxiv: 0912.1593 · arxiv_version: 0912.1593v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.0912.1593 · pith_short_12: U2FWJHCZV5K4 · pith_short_16: U2FWJHCZV5K4HPLG · pith_short_8: U2FWJHCZ
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curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/U2FWJHCZV5K4HPLGW7KPB75LTH \
  | 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: a68b649c59af55c3bd66b7d4f0ffab99f2b8779ad52b1e2152a1f854298b09ec
Canonical record JSON
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