Pith Number

pith:VELIFCFO

pith:2008:VELIFCFOGSQNZQRKSCKJXFRH3X

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The FIRST-2MASS Red Quasar Survey II: An anomalously high fraction of LoBALs in searches for dust-reddened quasars

Eilat Glikman, Jacqueline Hodge, Mark Lacy, Michael D. Gregg, Richard L. White, Robert H. Becker, Tanya Urrutia

arxiv:0808.3668 v1 · 2008-08-27 · astro-ph

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\pithnumber{VELIFCFOGSQNZQRKSCKJXFRH3X}

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First computed	2026-05-18T04:29:32.975358Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a9168288ae34a0dcc22a90949b9627ddc3320aa1c563a2f7442d9cd03cf02039

Aliases

arxiv: 0808.3668 · arxiv_version: 0808.3668v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.0808.3668 · pith_short_12: VELIFCFOGSQN · pith_short_16: VELIFCFOGSQNZQRK · pith_short_8: VELIFCFO

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/VELIFCFOGSQNZQRKSCKJXFRH3X \
  | 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: a9168288ae34a0dcc22a90949b9627ddc3320aa1c563a2f7442d9cd03cf02039

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "dc2aec17a744d640b2496895e89be3c66cca5b24a1768b97556f8b8c3a79e5d8",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2008-08-27T10:23:25Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "5156e7a3c36fc6806f4789027cfcbbdf917811c589178d407188b19e285af5c7"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "0808.3668",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}