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Summary of Significant Accounting Policies - Equity Based Compensation (Details) - RSUs	9 Months Ended
	Sep. 30, 2022
Share based compensation
Vesting period of restricted share units (RSUs)	3 years
Period for measuring market condition of award	3 years

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Represents the period over which changes in the entity's closing stock price and dividends declared on the entity's common stock are measured to determine stockholder returns that represent a market condition upon which an employee's right to exercise an award is contingent.

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Period over which grantee's right to exercise award under share-based payment arrangement is no longer contingent on satisfaction of service or performance condition, in 'PnYnMnDTnHnMnS' format, for example, 'P1Y5M13D' represents reported fact of one year, five months, and thirteen days. Includes, but is not limited to, combination of market, performance or service condition.

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/exampleRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 718
-SubTopic 10
-Section 50
-Paragraph 2
-Subparagraph (a)(1)
-URI https://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=128089324&loc=d3e5070-113901

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