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pith:HN5VG4TL

pith:2012:HN5VG4TLDSAXNJ4DIIKFSVQBRC

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On the distance of the Magellanic Clouds using Cepheid NIR and optical-NIR Period Wesenheit Relations

2), (2) European Southern Observatory, 4), 5), 7), A.M. Piersimoni (5), Astronomy, Brigham Young University, C.D. Laney (6, F. Caputo (4), F. Primas (2), G. Bono (1, Germany (3) Kiso Observatory, Institute of Astronomy, Italy, Italy), Italy (5) INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Collurania, Italy (6) Dept. of Physics, Japan (4) INAF--OAR, K. Genovali (1), Kiso-machi, L. Inno (1, Mitake, M. Marconi (8), Monte Porzio Catone, M. Romaniello (2) ((1) Dipartimento di Fisica, Munchen, Napoli, N. Matsunaga (3), R. Buonanno (1, Rome, School of Science, South Africa (8) INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Capodimonte, Teramo, The University of Tokyo, Universit\`a di Roma Tor Vergata, USA (7) South African Astronomical Observatory

arxiv:1212.4376 v2 · 2012-12-18 · astro-ph.SR

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First computed	2026-05-18T03:35:01.581388Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
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Canonical hash

3b7b53726b1c8176a7834214595601889fdb06bffaa0a7cb57f5eb07af811086

Aliases

arxiv: 1212.4376 · arxiv_version: 1212.4376v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1212.4376 · pith_short_12: HN5VG4TLDSAX · pith_short_16: HN5VG4TLDSAXNJ4D · pith_short_8: HN5VG4TL

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/HN5VG4TLDSAXNJ4DIIKFSVQBRC \
  | 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: 3b7b53726b1c8176a7834214595601889fdb06bffaa0a7cb57f5eb07af811086

Canonical record JSON

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    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.SR",
    "submitted_at": "2012-12-18T15:16:37Z",
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