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pith:67SPOFVG

pith:2010:67SPOFVGFW653FGHGMI2ZNK3MQ

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The Black Hole Mass Distribution in the Galaxy

Dimitrios Psaltis, Feryal Ozel, Jeffrey E. McClintock, Ramesh Narayan

arxiv:1006.2834 v2 · 2010-06-14 · astro-ph.GA

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First computed	2026-05-18T02:06:53.581357Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

f7e4f716a62dbddd94c73311acb55b6407a08217956611897916b4e9cbd485b6

Aliases

arxiv: 1006.2834 · arxiv_version: 1006.2834v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1006.2834 · pith_short_12: 67SPOFVGFW65 · pith_short_16: 67SPOFVGFW653FGH · pith_short_8: 67SPOFVG

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/67SPOFVGFW653FGHGMI2ZNK3MQ \
  | 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: f7e4f716a62dbddd94c73311acb55b6407a08217956611897916b4e9cbd485b6

Canonical record JSON

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    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2010-06-14T20:06:49Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f489b3e8438ac031bbf4ff51e28ce8f6db14ac7a208d4c5b3b2e1768292df5ea"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1006.2834",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}