Pith Number

pith:LRKPHYFG

pith:1998:LRKPHYFGB6VGPP4XNTWO2HANAV

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The Formation of Giant Elliptical Galaxies and Their Globular Cluster Systems

(DAO & OCIW), Michael J. West (Saint Mary's University & CITA), Patrick Cote (DAO & Caltech), Ronald O. Marzke

arxiv:astro-ph/9804319 v1 · 1998-04-29 · astro-ph

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Formation of rotating supergiants via stellar mergers in dense clusters: Implications for black hole natal spins

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T04:28:57.226657Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

5c54f3e0a60faa67bf976ceced1c0d056613bbac6be154f6fb754cd936ac45bb

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/9804319 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/9804319v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/9804319 · pith_short_12: LRKPHYFGB6VG · pith_short_16: LRKPHYFGB6VGPP4X · pith_short_8: LRKPHYFG

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/LRKPHYFGB6VGPP4XNTWO2HANAV \
  | 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: 5c54f3e0a60faa67bf976ceced1c0d056613bbac6be154f6fb754cd936ac45bb

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "905491cdc2a35b4af086bd7288b9b7d46d65da8880a4d0fdf77ad9edb30d9fb8",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1998-04-29T23:08:31Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "95da79024bffd9f40146b862bae1e7076e6c0cafec4637572dc4377d7c48c1a4"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/9804319",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}