Pith Number

pith:3HYBTQBP

pith:2003:3HYBTQBPTCBGEEALOFWZGBNWRX

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Formation of Massive Black Holes in Dense Star Clusters

2), (2) Astronomisches Rechen-Institut, Frederic A. Rasio (1), Heidelberg), Marc Freitag (1, M. Atakan G\"urkan (1) ((1) Northwestern University

arxiv:astro-ph/0304038 v1 · 2003-04-01 · astro-ph

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Supermassive black hole growth in hierarchically merging nuclear star clusters

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First computed	2026-07-04T14:12:40.210195Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d9f019c02f988262100b716d9305b68dc26827dbe82e4478c68759c3d9fcc939

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/0304038 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/0304038v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/0304038 · pith_short_12: 3HYBTQBPTCBG · pith_short_16: 3HYBTQBPTCBGEEAL · pith_short_8: 3HYBTQBP

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/3HYBTQBPTCBGEEALOFWZGBNWRX \
  | 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: d9f019c02f988262100b716d9305b68dc26827dbe82e4478c68759c3d9fcc939

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "8c82cb4fe00034a85a880f864cea6ed9ac33efa1615bc511917879127ae67f12",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2003-04-01T22:00:03Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "66c18df9556b6d90274bc1b7982bc40cd9a9451df5a580a2f0ad10a261bfb223"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/0304038",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}