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pith:VRW2GOSF

pith:2015:VRW2GOSFFYMBWHZXAAOEZWLKRG

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The Origin of the Hot Gas in the Galactic Halo: Testing Galactic Fountain Models' X-ray Emission

Alex S. Hill, David B. Henley, Kyujin Kwak, Mordecai-Mark Mac Low, Robin L. Shelton

arxiv:1501.00493 v1 · 2015-01-02 · astro-ph.GA

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\pithnumber{VRW2GOSFFYMBWHZXAAOEZWLKRG}

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First computed	2026-05-18T01:41:14.849893Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ac6da33a452e181b1f37001c4cd96a89aa54454e85f23aa2d54ca89fc0d60894

Aliases

arxiv: 1501.00493 · arxiv_version: 1501.00493v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1501.00493 · pith_short_12: VRW2GOSFFYMB · pith_short_16: VRW2GOSFFYMBWHZX · pith_short_8: VRW2GOSF

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/VRW2GOSFFYMBWHZXAAOEZWLKRG \
  | 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: ac6da33a452e181b1f37001c4cd96a89aa54454e85f23aa2d54ca89fc0d60894

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "ea37b77c1d1b9e74d86ce7ad14f34aee782615720b37bfe366935fe44976f081",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2015-01-02T21:00:09Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "6b956e735ac410f260642395564d6d89a7985469d91b5282866674220c6b4000"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1501.00493",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}