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# Observation of thermal Hawking radiation and its temperature in an analogue black hole

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## Acknowledgements

We thank the participants of the LITP Analogue Gravity Workshop for their conversations. We thank I. Carusotto, R. Parentani, D. Marolf and F. Michel for comments. This work was supported by the Israel Science Foundation.

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### Contributions

J.R.M.d.N. and J.S. designed and built the experimental apparatus. J.R.M.d.N., K.G. and V.I.K. performed theoretical calculations. J.S. acquired the data. K.G., V.I.K. and J.S. analysed the data. J.R.M.d.N. performed the numerical simulations. J.R.M.d.N. and J.S. wrote the manuscript with input from all authors.

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Correspondence to Jeff Steinhauer.

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Muñoz de Nova, J.R., Golubkov, K., Kolobov, V.I. et al. Observation of thermal Hawking radiation and its temperature in an analogue black hole. Nature 569, 688–691 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-019-1241-0

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