Pith Number

pith:F4MG7ABJ

pith:2019:F4MG7ABJOS56CGVZUOFGAXCHNX

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Light Element Discontinuities Suggest an Early Termination of Star Formation in the Globular Cluster NGC 6402 (M14)

Christian I. Johnson, John I. Bailey III, Mario Mateo, Nelson Caldwell, R. Michael Rich

arxiv:1903.01951 v1 · 2019-03-05 · astro-ph.SR · astro-ph.GA

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\pithnumber{F4MG7ABJOS56CGVZUOFGAXCHNX}

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First computed	2026-05-17T23:51:29.613506Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

2f186f802974bbe11ab9a38a605c476df6978cdc7d4bcb48d4d81fde216707e7

Aliases

arxiv: 1903.01951 · arxiv_version: 1903.01951v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1903.01951 · pith_short_12: F4MG7ABJOS56 · pith_short_16: F4MG7ABJOS56CGVZ · pith_short_8: F4MG7ABJ

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/F4MG7ABJOS56CGVZUOFGAXCHNX \
  | 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: 2f186f802974bbe11ab9a38a605c476df6978cdc7d4bcb48d4d81fde216707e7

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e643489b0ef907fe519e0e3e6208b35bed2f8c9389ef6e90bb2dcc8b4209602a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.GA"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.SR",
    "submitted_at": "2019-03-05T17:36:00Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "6f2c3f1cbbe08c5f539791f5adef9263bafe25b1ac12d2b3cc55b018b942da2f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1903.01951",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}