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pith:6FBAZXXI

pith:2016:6FBAZXXIXDBO32JRGB6ALY5UGR

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Formation of Massive Black Holes in Galactic Nuclei: Runaway Tidal Encounters

Andreas H.W. Kuepper, Jeremiah P. Ostriker, Nicholas C. Stone

arxiv:1606.01909 v1 · 2016-06-06 · astro-ph.GA · astro-ph.HE · gr-qc

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:51:17.255177Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

f1420cdee8b8c2ede931307c05e3b43442541011f5ac38dc23defd90d6b3ee8d

Aliases

arxiv: 1606.01909 · arxiv_version: 1606.01909v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1606.01909 · pith_short_12: 6FBAZXXIXDBO · pith_short_16: 6FBAZXXIXDBO32JR · pith_short_8: 6FBAZXXI

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/6FBAZXXIXDBO32JRGB6ALY5UGR \
  | 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: f1420cdee8b8c2ede931307c05e3b43442541011f5ac38dc23defd90d6b3ee8d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f4f411e45faa4d0c53f31f5316820811ab591cff6576979e93e9d5388d3f04b8",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.HE",
      "gr-qc"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2016-06-06T20:00:48Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "5762e2cc36f5777d17b4291de60dd9b1685e71acf0af2f07c0d93d453bec9131"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1606.01909",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}