Pith Number

pith:HKANOMGP

pith:2005:HKANOMGP6LJ46EJTPEWNSL2AKD

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Dissipationless Merging and the Assembly of Central Galaxies

Asantha Cooray (UC Irvine), Milos Milosavljevic (Caltech)

arxiv:astro-ph/0503596 v1 · 2005-03-29 · astro-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{HKANOMGP6LJ46EJTPEWNSL2AKD}

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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	2026-05-18T01:07:31.550846Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

3a80d730cff2d3cf1133792cd92f4050f7e4935842d5b47acacec4e4b67cbccf

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/0503596 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/0503596v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/0503596 · pith_short_12: HKANOMGP6LJ4 · pith_short_16: HKANOMGP6LJ46EJT · pith_short_8: HKANOMGP

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/HKANOMGP6LJ46EJTPEWNSL2AKD \
  | 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: 3a80d730cff2d3cf1133792cd92f4050f7e4935842d5b47acacec4e4b67cbccf

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "cf20ab8edf7546ba4e700e8dfbbea61bcf1569788bf3ab8a66c858affefce1d8",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2005-03-29T05:32:03Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "1dc9dc50b74a427468f975793020aa788ff81c68db3655f41bf30cfdbbaaba25"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/0503596",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}