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pith:WRFMC5EK

pith:1998:WRFMC5EKQ2RAVOXOF4GNZ22BVB
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Evolution of Cluster X-Ray Luminosities and Radii: Results from the 160 Square Degree ROSAT Survey

A.Hornstrup, A.Vikhlinin, B.R.McNamara, C.Jones, H.Quintana, W.Forman

arxiv:astro-ph/9803101 v1 · 1998-03-10 · astro-ph

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Canonical hash

b44ac1748a86a20abaee2f0cdceb41a86390464ee4548fdf29c58baaab1fda94

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arxiv: astro-ph/9803101 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/9803101v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/9803101 · pith_short_12: WRFMC5EKQ2RA · pith_short_16: WRFMC5EKQ2RAVOXO · pith_short_8: WRFMC5EK
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curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/WRFMC5EKQ2RAVOXOF4GNZ22BVB \
  | 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: b44ac1748a86a20abaee2f0cdceb41a86390464ee4548fdf29c58baaab1fda94
Canonical record JSON
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