Pith Number

pith:62GECGLN

pith:2012:62GECGLNIMNIXP63YX5IDIFXCE

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Intermediate mass black holes in AGN disks: I. Production & Growth

B. McKernan, H. B. Perets, K. E. S. Ford, W. Lyra

arxiv:1206.2309 v1 · 2012-06-11 · astro-ph.GA · astro-ph.EP

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\pithnumber{62GECGLNIMNIXP63YX5IDIFXCE}

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2 papers in Pith

Thick Disks, Thin Hopes: Suppressed Capture and Merger Rates in AGN

GWTC-2.1: Deep Extended Catalog of Compact Binary Coalescences Observed by LIGO and Virgo During the First Half of the Third Observing Run

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First computed	2026-05-18T01:56:59.802016Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

f68c41196d431a8bbfdbc5fa81a0b7110608311cdcfcf792186d73d5e16ae148

Aliases

arxiv: 1206.2309 · arxiv_version: 1206.2309v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1206.2309 · pith_short_12: 62GECGLNIMNI · pith_short_16: 62GECGLNIMNIXP63 · pith_short_8: 62GECGLN

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/62GECGLNIMNIXP63YX5IDIFXCE \
  | 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: f68c41196d431a8bbfdbc5fa81a0b7110608311cdcfcf792186d73d5e16ae148

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "214c476471f720b4cf1c5d5af0ca6c72154a750fb57c5d15503caf74d4f1feed",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.EP"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2012-06-11T18:38:06Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "2d36d9242a354888eab4c8ca8c93ff65a1ec0f23cc13906b6c09c5f3bdbee1d3"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1206.2309",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}