Pith Number

pith:HPQK6LVG

pith:2024:HPQK6LVGXHJYF7JKNTRPKBRTC5

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Beyond the Goldilocks Zone: Identifying Critical Features in Massive Black Hole Formation

Brandon Pries, Elizabeth Mone, John Wise, Sandrine Ferrans

arxiv:2412.08829 v2 · 2024-12-12 · astro-ph.GA · astro-ph.CO

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\pithnumber{HPQK6LVGXHJYF7JKNTRPKBRTC5}

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Direct Collapse Black Hole Candidates from Decaying Dark Matter

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-05T10:18:11.526008Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

3be0af2ea6b9d382fd2a6ce2f5063317431ac0c4a15b4ad7e56e5e9ba19c9b39

Aliases

arxiv: 2412.08829 · arxiv_version: 2412.08829v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2412.08829 · pith_short_12: HPQK6LVGXHJY · pith_short_16: HPQK6LVGXHJYF7JK · pith_short_8: HPQK6LVG

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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/HPQK6LVGXHJYF7JKNTRPKBRTC5 \
  | 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: 3be0af2ea6b9d382fd2a6ce2f5063317431ac0c4a15b4ad7e56e5e9ba19c9b39

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f33721476dc2faaea3316719625641d43c28a6ca40b4d2544b9c8349a77488ac",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.CO"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2024-12-12T00:02:57Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "41a09afafd4b44244167b5fb3755a70ae0ebbf770bad8673c0858bea68a698e4"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2412.08829",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}