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pith:1997:MF4TJQME6YNKBOUFNBXIMDG7VA
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Discovery of a Supernova Explosion at Half the Age of the Universe and its Cosmological Implications

A. Fruchter, A.G. Kim, A. Goobar, B. Schaefer, C. Lidman, C.R. Pennypacker, D.E. Groom, G. Aldering, G. Goldhaber, I. M. Hook, M. Della Valle, M.Y. Kim, N. Panagia, N. Walton (The Supernova Cosmology Project), Peter Nugent, P. Ruiz-Lapuente, R.A. Knop, R. G. McMahon, R. Pain, R.S. Ellis, S. Deustua, S. Fabbro, S. Perlmutter

arxiv:astro-ph/9712212 v1 · 1997-12-16 · astro-ph

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Canonical hash

617934c184f61aa0ba85686e860cdfa818dc72ae303ea98336e2393145c5ef31

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/9712212 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/9712212v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/9712212 · pith_short_12: MF4TJQME6YNK · pith_short_16: MF4TJQME6YNKBOUF · pith_short_8: MF4TJQME
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Verify this Pith Number yourself
curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/MF4TJQME6YNKBOUFNBXIMDG7VA \
  | 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: 617934c184f61aa0ba85686e860cdfa818dc72ae303ea98336e2393145c5ef31
Canonical record JSON
{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "2ba46dd5b7f6a5355b45a445d5eadd875d2dfd685ea216f32dd5e964479fd048",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1997-12-16T22:48:09Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "7deeb2f2cdc118c043036262387197b938b435acbd3bdad4011f83f548ef03f2"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/9712212",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}