Pith Number

pith:HQDG47DZ

pith:2014:HQDG47DZ243OHCLZCB7JFJRK2Q

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The Size of Star Clusters Accreted by the Milky Way

Alison Sills, Jeremy J. Webb, Meghan Miholics

arxiv:1409.5150 v1 · 2014-09-17 · astro-ph.GA

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{HQDG47DZ243OHCLZCB7JFJRK2Q}

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4 Citations open

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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	2026-05-18T01:42:01.603159Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

3c066e7c79d736e38979107e92a62ad40c3cedffa35eeee16b4cad4536c1bb11

Aliases

arxiv: 1409.5150 · arxiv_version: 1409.5150v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1409.5150 · pith_short_12: HQDG47DZ243O · pith_short_16: HQDG47DZ243OHCLZ · pith_short_8: HQDG47DZ

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/HQDG47DZ243OHCLZCB7JFJRK2Q \
  | 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: 3c066e7c79d736e38979107e92a62ad40c3cedffa35eeee16b4cad4536c1bb11

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "cceea54ef1566136c6752e04e725bf5d81fed28798201169420e43e465c34e61",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2014-09-17T21:21:01Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "fa7906a3cc41b96c777377c63ff645cba44bb3409d31aed45e8d1b10aa66e7cc"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1409.5150",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}