Pith Number

pith:FIVG7XW2

pith:2017:FIVG7XW2MIERFNUD2MYKAT5SNQ

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Initial Mass Function Variability (or not) Among \\ Low-Velocity Dispersion, Compact Stellar Systems

Aaron J. Romanowsky, Alexa Villaume, Charlie Conroy, Jean Brodie, Pieter van Dokkum

arxiv:1710.11144 v1 · 2017-10-30 · astro-ph.GA

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\pithnumber{FIVG7XW2MIERFNUD2MYKAT5SNQ}

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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	2026-05-18T00:29:24.547988Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

2a2a6fdeda620912b683d330a04fb26c03cafcda7ae48c7656f13e0929852ccf

Aliases

arxiv: 1710.11144 · arxiv_version: 1710.11144v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1710.11144 · pith_short_12: FIVG7XW2MIER · pith_short_16: FIVG7XW2MIERFNUD · pith_short_8: FIVG7XW2

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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/FIVG7XW2MIERFNUD2MYKAT5SNQ \
  | 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: 2a2a6fdeda620912b683d330a04fb26c03cafcda7ae48c7656f13e0929852ccf

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "8711a06f1439ba9cb19bd63eefc2b8e16f49f4d0dc2301c13eaf28df8369faae",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2017-10-30T18:00:13Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "3acca5f9f1f5b8e0e27cae073540fc27f1c237a840ebb10248d47fcba8699f88"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1710.11144",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}