Pith Number

pith:BX6QHWSS

pith:2007:BX6QHWSSS5SX3ZV3RGQ2HEB5F6

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The Origin of the Arches Stellar Cluster Mass Function

(2) DCU, 3) ((1) KASI, (3) Ferdowsi U.), Jongsoo Kim (1), Mohsen Shadmehri (2, Sami Dib (1)

arxiv:0706.0950 v2 · 2007-06-07 · astro-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{BX6QHWSSS5SX3ZV3RGQ2HEB5F6}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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.

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First computed	2026-07-04T17:04:06.778221Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0dfd03da5297657de6bb89a1a3903d2fb4e5ba2ed75dd9e75bb0e06dd436fdaa

Aliases

arxiv: 0706.0950 · arxiv_version: 0706.0950v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.0706.0950 · pith_short_12: BX6QHWSSS5SX · pith_short_16: BX6QHWSSS5SX3ZV3 · pith_short_8: BX6QHWSS

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/BX6QHWSSS5SX3ZV3RGQ2HEB5F6 \
  | 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: 0dfd03da5297657de6bb89a1a3903d2fb4e5ba2ed75dd9e75bb0e06dd436fdaa

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "1a4a61a9c39e27547482e86ccee97813d41f780f0cfe5a766b7d67e6abd91ec3",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2007-06-07T06:52:14Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "835c3c9411618f6f2d9f5773438061072565b9fb71036cc56524860f65fa103c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "0706.0950",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}