Pith Number

pith:A65RXZGM

pith:2008:A65RXZGMOTWG7EVO24XQRNNMM2

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Dissipation and Extra Light in Galactic Nuclei: III. 'Core' Ellipticals and 'Missing' Light

(2) NOAO, (3) UT Austin), John Kormendy (3) ((1) CfA, Lars Hernquist (1), Philip F. Hopkins (1), Thomas J. Cox (1), Tod R. Lauer (2)

arxiv:0806.2325 v2 · 2008-06-13 · astro-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{A65RXZGMOTWG7EVO24XQRNNMM2}

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Record completeness

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

The bundle contains the canonical record plus signed events. A mirror can host it anywhere and recompute the same current state with the deterministic merge algorithm.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-04T17:11:16.631813Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

07bb1be4cc74ec6f92aed72f08b5ac6696fbbfbeb379f7b5570023b2f1a8c1b1

Aliases

arxiv: 0806.2325 · arxiv_version: 0806.2325v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.0806.2325 · pith_short_12: A65RXZGMOTWG · pith_short_16: A65RXZGMOTWG7EVO · pith_short_8: A65RXZGM

Agent API

Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/A65RXZGMOTWG7EVO24XQRNNMM2 \
  | 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: 07bb1be4cc74ec6f92aed72f08b5ac6696fbbfbeb379f7b5570023b2f1a8c1b1

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "705cc375ab608fc110d934bb03941467105af46c74446331c5d1c19b00a221a3",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2008-06-13T20:07:20Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "8140877db258ab2829d6d890a6204f1bcc39053e417bf23a0b66b12e2698e951"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "0806.2325",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}