Pith Number

pith:3X4F3FCI

pith:2006:3X4F3FCI7FAJOCVOMMC2FOS4DN

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Trends in the Globular Cluster Luminosity Function of Early-Type Galaxies

Andres Jordan, Daniela Villegas, David Merritt, Dean E. McLaughlin, Eric W. Peng, John L. Tonry, John P. Blakeslee, Laura Ferrarese, Michael J. West, Patrick Cote, Simona Mei

arxiv:astro-ph/0609371 v1 · 2006-09-13 · astro-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{3X4F3FCI7FAJOCVOMMC2FOS4DN}

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4 Citations 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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T04:28:57.754982Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ddf85d9448f940970aae6305a2ba5c1b4fb873c36548b6cd7f52854a5555b9fa

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/0609371 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/0609371v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/0609371 · pith_short_12: 3X4F3FCI7FAJ · pith_short_16: 3X4F3FCI7FAJOCVO · pith_short_8: 3X4F3FCI

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/3X4F3FCI7FAJOCVOMMC2FOS4DN \
  | 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: ddf85d9448f940970aae6305a2ba5c1b4fb873c36548b6cd7f52854a5555b9fa

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "ed9ed781958689179de11ac362d3ac05db81c5ce14291f9009d10cbe3af240c3",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2006-09-13T20:01:13Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ea0288cf129e07a4a287a2f32f8ffe082832d1c54dc71e8a935b6fe63d922729"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/0609371",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}