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pith:VWBSEXQQ

pith:2018:VWBSEXQQ4GLHEVPEPSLCJLTTP5

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Identification of Low Surface Brightness Tidal Features in Galaxies Using Convolutional Neural Networks

Annette M. N. Ferguson, Chris J. Lintott, Mike Walmsley, Robert G. Mann

arxiv:1811.11616 v1 · 2018-11-28 · astro-ph.GA · astro-ph.IM

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First computed	2026-05-17T23:59:40.523634Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ad83225e10e1967255e47c9624ae737f5d0491b2dce6d76a46d6ceb6a89269b5

Aliases

arxiv: 1811.11616 · arxiv_version: 1811.11616v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1811.11616 · pith_short_12: VWBSEXQQ4GLH · pith_short_16: VWBSEXQQ4GLHEVPE · pith_short_8: VWBSEXQQ

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/VWBSEXQQ4GLHEVPEPSLCJLTTP5 \
  | 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: ad83225e10e1967255e47c9624ae737f5d0491b2dce6d76a46d6ceb6a89269b5

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "2d5a8e9c7352f5b1198dee4f5a15aba1f89427d4384546ad144824ac5b1082ed",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.IM"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2018-11-28T15:15:19Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "dcabe7cb0f5b19f50d30eeb4d0e71982fdf340903be1d63d9ad657b888bb7b68"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1811.11616",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}