Pith Number

pith:DXSY25SM

pith:2006:DXSY25SMZDECJV3DXFDWCRRCG6

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Damp Mergers: Recent Gaseous Mergers without Significant Globular Cluster Formation?

Duncan A. Forbes, Jay Strader, Jean P. Brodie, Robert Proctor

arxiv:astro-ph/0612415 v1 · 2006-12-15 · astro-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{DXSY25SMZDECJV3DXFDWCRRCG6}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

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	2026-05-18T04:29:14.769760Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

1de58d764cc8c824d763b94761462237beaf92041d92f7eb79c8bfdf1ce9cc32

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/0612415 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/0612415v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/0612415 · pith_short_12: DXSY25SMZDEC · pith_short_16: DXSY25SMZDECJV3D · pith_short_8: DXSY25SM

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/DXSY25SMZDECJV3DXFDWCRRCG6 \
  | 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: 1de58d764cc8c824d763b94761462237beaf92041d92f7eb79c8bfdf1ce9cc32

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "0dbf66665165ee6dc552043cc8f39a329f0037e25e609bcbf8ea750b49a18abf",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2006-12-15T04:01:44Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "903878a53d6c84afa7a22f5efdee02ee0cc2d1564c3e374294b496ce3041b461"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/0612415",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}