Pith Number

pith:BNDLZQI3

pith:1997:BNDLZQI3UMF6S6TZ7FSPFQLKUV

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

On the evolution of the galactic globular cluster system

E. Vesperini

arxiv:astro-ph/9702067 v1 · 1997-02-06 · astro-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{BNDLZQI3UMF6S6TZ7FSPFQLKUV}

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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	2026-05-18T01:40:18.198661Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0b46bcc11ba30be97a79f964f2c16aa549950f2a59e47f4b078151c595eae832

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/9702067 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/9702067v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/9702067 · pith_short_12: BNDLZQI3UMF6 · pith_short_16: BNDLZQI3UMF6S6TZ · pith_short_8: BNDLZQI3

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/BNDLZQI3UMF6S6TZ7FSPFQLKUV \
  | 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: 0b46bcc11ba30be97a79f964f2c16aa549950f2a59e47f4b078151c595eae832

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "3301030690b030549624d6611599fec2a15c7efd1fbd6131204187e48170a7dc",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1997-02-06T22:05:32Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e79a6d410c12bd705f233332d4a1a85edd98165eb648d5943d900e9455bc8a65"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/9702067",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}