Pith Number

pith:4TCXWCV4

pith:2016:4TCXWCV4GHM2SIHQI3MZT3GACR

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Evolution of the Mass and Luminosity Functions of Globular Star Clusters

Paul Goudfrooij, S. Michael Fall (STScI)

arxiv:1611.09876 v1 · 2016-11-29 · astro-ph.SR · astro-ph.GA

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{4TCXWCV4GHM2SIHQI3MZT3GACR}

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:56:11.618934Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e4c57b0abc31d9a920f046d999ecc0146462e263903a79bef7b72e79ee60f1ef

Aliases

arxiv: 1611.09876 · arxiv_version: 1611.09876v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1611.09876 · pith_short_12: 4TCXWCV4GHM2 · pith_short_16: 4TCXWCV4GHM2SIHQ · pith_short_8: 4TCXWCV4

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/4TCXWCV4GHM2SIHQI3MZT3GACR \
  | 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: e4c57b0abc31d9a920f046d999ecc0146462e263903a79bef7b72e79ee60f1ef

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e47708804b3b306475315775aa7cbd7239a9eefb0590abc134703930a47f9429",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.GA"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.SR",
    "submitted_at": "2016-11-29T21:05:48Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "244f41ceb089890dc0326f326624ace801e2d3a0ee4830428d6b802aa6027208"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1611.09876",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}