Pith Number

pith:6XPKAFBL

pith:1996:6XPKAFBLEZ4I6XZRNLQ6MWZV7N

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Ages of globular clusters: breaking the age-distance degeneracy with the luminosity function

Paolo Padoan & Raul Jimenez

arxiv:astro-ph/9603060 v1 · 1996-03-14 · astro-ph

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First computed	2026-05-18T01:07:41.098518Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

f5dea0142b26788f5f316ae1e65b35fb52b4b0e4e8e4eaa19c9ef4c873f8d111

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/9603060 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/9603060v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/9603060 · pith_short_12: 6XPKAFBLEZ4I · pith_short_16: 6XPKAFBLEZ4I6XZR · pith_short_8: 6XPKAFBL

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/6XPKAFBLEZ4I6XZRNLQ6MWZV7N \
  | 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: f5dea0142b26788f5f316ae1e65b35fb52b4b0e4e8e4eaa19c9ef4c873f8d111

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "8eefcda7b6de46519663272a9585e37c8d2066d4cdadbf469e70993eda173557",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1996-03-14T01:44:25Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "bf759c3b887988e4a412ad344afdd107c54674f4ba86bef04000e4b7678f9b50"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/9603060",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}