Pith Number

pith:2IQVVLOB

pith:2008:2IQVVLOBFRV4BNEFM6SHBODKZT

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Mergers of luminous early-type galaxies in the local universe and gravitational wave background

F. S. Liu, J. L. Han, Z. L. Wen

arxiv:0810.5200 v2 · 2008-10-29 · astro-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{2IQVVLOBFRV4BNEFM6SHBODKZT}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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The bundle contains the canonical record plus signed events. A mirror can host it anywhere and recompute the same current state with the deterministic merge algorithm.

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First computed	2026-05-18T04:29:25.605384Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d2215aadc12c6bc0b48567a470b86acce841d593ac6c179af8283d6068a1a91b

Aliases

arxiv: 0810.5200 · arxiv_version: 0810.5200v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.0810.5200 · pith_short_12: 2IQVVLOBFRV4 · pith_short_16: 2IQVVLOBFRV4BNEF · pith_short_8: 2IQVVLOB

Agent API

Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/2IQVVLOBFRV4BNEFM6SHBODKZT \
  | 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: d2215aadc12c6bc0b48567a470b86acce841d593ac6c179af8283d6068a1a91b

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "355d9cc51fd19e984aeb5cb42e4e21bb6bafb8ceb41e657913db678978d4b500",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2008-10-29T06:16:50Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "954b985eb6a84e310ccfedf4735f84c2a85a010c946df5850dd5c6ab9dec6de9"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "0810.5200",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}