Pith Number

pith:5ZSLYM2S

pith:1998:5ZSLYM2SOWYQVPDLD6MPEJIMTU

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Star cluster ecology III: Runaway collisions in young compact star clusters

Junichiro Makino (Tokyo), Piet Hut (IAS), Simon Portegies Zwart (Tokyo), Stephen L. W. McMillan (Drexel)

arxiv:astro-ph/9812006 v2 · 1998-12-01 · astro-ph

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\pithnumber{5ZSLYM2SOWYQVPDLD6MPEJIMTU}

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First computed	2026-07-04T14:16:23.626343Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ee64bc335275b10abc6b1f98f2250c9d0958a13a55582123dc1be62f44bf6564

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/9812006 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/9812006v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/9812006 · pith_short_12: 5ZSLYM2SOWYQ · pith_short_16: 5ZSLYM2SOWYQVPDL · pith_short_8: 5ZSLYM2S

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/5ZSLYM2SOWYQVPDLD6MPEJIMTU \
  | 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: ee64bc335275b10abc6b1f98f2250c9d0958a13a55582123dc1be62f44bf6564

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "058e9ceaf57461a5e46287979d7b2479ba11586d9a46f7b72719f202a870add3",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1998-12-01T05:55:36Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "4faaeb2f7603e0b99b070a00ae36f50b457c2ce73b17ae002f6afbddd81bcc8c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/9812006",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}