Pith Number

pith:K5FNAA5H

pith:2003:K5FNAA5HCDLPHJ4AJILRWBECE2

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Chaotic Loss Cones, Black Hole Fueling and the M-Sigma Relation

David Merritt (Rutgers), M. Y. Poon (Harvard)

arxiv:astro-ph/0302296 v2 · 2003-02-14 · astro-ph

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\pithnumber{K5FNAA5HCDLPHJ4AJILRWBECE2}

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The evolution of a supermassive binary black hole in an non-spherical nuclear star cluster

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-04T16:36:30.230851Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

574ad003a710d6f3a7804a171b048226b89a3012be82465b30d670e13d71aa00

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/0302296 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/0302296v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/0302296 · pith_short_12: K5FNAA5HCDLP · pith_short_16: K5FNAA5HCDLPHJ4A · pith_short_8: K5FNAA5H

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/K5FNAA5HCDLPHJ4AJILRWBECE2 \
  | 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: 574ad003a710d6f3a7804a171b048226b89a3012be82465b30d670e13d71aa00

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "9d2e48e1b2ace39853cef40046d1f6b5310aee6e33efde4d980d7ce7374cf4b9",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2003-02-14T20:50:15Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "0895f2ef9327a875ce23bd65522036e55cec6d93e9c80ee26a5faad4f7178575"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/0302296",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}