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bibcode

(reference code for a journal article)

A bibcode is a type of reference code to identify journal articles, used by some astrophysics journal-article repositories and indexes, consisting of 19 ascii characters used as follows:

Unused characters are filled with periods. Some databases that make use of it:

Example bibcode: 1996AAS...189.0603B


(reference)
Further reading:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bibcode
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs_doc/help_pages/data.html
http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/guide/refcode/refcode-paper.html
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2003lisa.conf...59G/abstract

Referenced by page:
American Association of Variable Star Observers (AAVSO)

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