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pith:IKGGWPEP

pith:2017:IKGGWPEPIEVOSOKD4J3Q75XYBQ

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The Contribution of Faint, Failed and Defunct Stars to the "Stellar" Masses of Galaxies

Paul L. Schechter

arxiv:1712.00393 v1 · 2017-12-01 · astro-ph.GA

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{IKGGWPEPIEVOSOKD4J3Q75XYBQ}

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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	2026-05-18T00:29:06.317150Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

428c6b3c8f412ae93943e2770ff6f80c0e59da08d12d8c1d4d1543d63e3011fd

Aliases

arxiv: 1712.00393 · arxiv_version: 1712.00393v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1712.00393 · pith_short_12: IKGGWPEPIEVO · pith_short_16: IKGGWPEPIEVOSOKD · pith_short_8: IKGGWPEP

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/IKGGWPEPIEVOSOKD4J3Q75XYBQ \
  | 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: 428c6b3c8f412ae93943e2770ff6f80c0e59da08d12d8c1d4d1543d63e3011fd

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "717c160e593d77c9bdb7c91a6302ff08bdd67035a4ebf2172ecdfd552a3878aa",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2017-12-01T16:29:55Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "19c849f9c070c59d05678458c98f9379422385f75c88cbd9839b7ab53dc409ff"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1712.00393",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}