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pith:DXBR36A3

pith:2017:DXBR36A3NR6FRENODNFDTQ6H7L
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The Initial Masses of the Red Supergiant Progenitors to Type-II Supernovae

Ben Davies, Emma Beasor

arxiv:1709.06116 v2 · 2017-09-18 · astro-ph.SR

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First computed 2026-05-18T00:27:12.864116Z
Builder pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature Pith Ed25519 (pith-v1-2026-05) · public key
Schema pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

1dc31df81b6c7c5891ae1b4a39c3c7faf8213a6d5b3d10bc3568db93846e57e8

Aliases

arxiv: 1709.06116 · arxiv_version: 1709.06116v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1709.06116 · pith_short_12: DXBR36A3NR6F · pith_short_16: DXBR36A3NR6FRENO · pith_short_8: DXBR36A3
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Verify this Pith Number yourself
curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/DXBR36A3NR6FRENODNFDTQ6H7L \
  | 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: 1dc31df81b6c7c5891ae1b4a39c3c7faf8213a6d5b3d10bc3568db93846e57e8
Canonical record JSON
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    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.SR",
    "submitted_at": "2017-09-18T18:28:31Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "2eeeb88e885240bf9c83f4ebf609f924dc9b5719b028bb45a1949cdc385bc5eb"
  },
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  "source": {
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    "kind": "arxiv",
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  }
}