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pith:2002:HCXWTCYSFQX7GPJLNAYX2VK3MP
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The runaway growth of intermediate-mass black holes in dense star clusters

Simon F. Portegies Zwart (Amsterdam), Steve L.W. McMillan (Drexel)

arxiv:astro-ph/0201055 v2 · 2002-01-04 · astro-ph

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First computed 2026-07-04T15:22:56.815206Z
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Canonical hash

38af698b122c2ff33d2b68317d555b63c9e2430818c17a2f23e015c3c4274ad0

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/0201055 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/0201055v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/0201055 · pith_short_12: HCXWTCYSFQX7 · pith_short_16: HCXWTCYSFQX7GPJL · pith_short_8: HCXWTCYS
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Verify this Pith Number yourself
curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/HCXWTCYSFQX7GPJLNAYX2VK3MP \
  | 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: 38af698b122c2ff33d2b68317d555b63c9e2430818c17a2f23e015c3c4274ad0
Canonical record JSON
{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "dd9a97ca47626f84239e6b5c1d692c6b3053f167ed8b600b84470cdd0742027a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2002-01-04T18:55:00Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ebfb9568b423a3fbe445b7100a0a0892d0f60e13969d660cbe0213c3693b396e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
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    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}