Pith Number

pith:466TW6V6

pith:2004:466TW6V6KTO3DWDZRSD5L6BWU6

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Explaining the mysterious age gap of globular clusters in the Large Magellanic Cloud

D. A. Forbes, G. S. Da Costa, K. Bekki, M. A. Beasley, M. Chiba, W. J. Couch

arxiv:astro-ph/0406443 v1 · 2004-06-20 · astro-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{466TW6V6KTO3DWDZRSD5L6BWU6}

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-04T16:44:03.052802Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e7bd3b7abe54ddb1d8798c87d5f836a7850045747849d15d01b9b3e414946b38

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/0406443 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/0406443v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/0406443 · pith_short_12: 466TW6V6KTO3 · pith_short_16: 466TW6V6KTO3DWDZ · pith_short_8: 466TW6V6

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/466TW6V6KTO3DWDZRSD5L6BWU6 \
  | 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: e7bd3b7abe54ddb1d8798c87d5f836a7850045747849d15d01b9b3e414946b38

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c53f3dcfbd2fb738c8be1b279bb66d68eded9f883e6e860e0beda21f720aaf31",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2004-06-20T08:56:30Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "493f7d284b1a2874151f6aad96430e39f5991812df135f6e2e85a9a585248fad"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/0406443",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}