Pith Number

pith:LWX5ULMK

pith:2004:LWX5ULMKFBULBP6LMSGEYKSJ6F

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The Stellar Initial Mass Function in the Galactic Center

Donald F. Figer

arxiv:astro-ph/0409415 v1 · 2004-09-16 · astro-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{LWX5ULMKFBULBP6LMSGEYKSJ6F}

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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	2026-05-18T01:27:16.607852Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

5dafda2d8a2868b0bfcb648c4c2a49f16534da71d24d8b95f44322373d1a2c6b

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/0409415 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/0409415v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/0409415 · pith_short_12: LWX5ULMKFBUL · pith_short_16: LWX5ULMKFBULBP6L · pith_short_8: LWX5ULMK

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/LWX5ULMKFBULBP6LMSGEYKSJ6F \
  | 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: 5dafda2d8a2868b0bfcb648c4c2a49f16534da71d24d8b95f44322373d1a2c6b

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a20e93b09231e9a45ac927b5cbeeaaa1e3542769604e51a076c76b625ff49e44",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2004-09-16T20:37:41Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "75175c115bf4da30e8ef96ec7055d13359d7a7acdf8569495a9d3adb57d2b39a"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/0409415",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}