Pith Number

pith:M4JZHJOI

pith:2004:M4JZHJOIJLO5TRA5IH4FSNAITE

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Globular Cluster and Galaxy Formation: M31, the Milky Way and Implications for Globular Cluster Systems of Spiral Galaxies

(2) ANU, (3) AAO, (4) Swinburne, (5) Sao Paolo, (6) Smithsonian, (7) UCSC), B. Barbuy (5), B.K. Gibson (4), D.A. Forbes (4) ((1) ASU, D. Burstein (1), H.C. Lee (4), J. Bland-Hawthorn (3), J.E. Norris (2), J.P. Brodie (7), J.P. Huchra (6), K.C. Freeman (2), M.A. Beasley (4), M.S. Bessell (2), Y. Li (1)

arxiv:astro-ph/0406564 v1 · 2004-06-24 · astro-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{M4JZHJOIJLO5TRA5IH4FSNAITE}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications 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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T04:27:04.439580Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

671393a5c84addd9c41d41f85934089919e23b592a12d49820bd22a70220a6c7

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/0406564 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/0406564v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/0406564 · pith_short_12: M4JZHJOIJLO5 · pith_short_16: M4JZHJOIJLO5TRA5 · pith_short_8: M4JZHJOI

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/M4JZHJOIJLO5TRA5IH4FSNAITE \
  | 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: 671393a5c84addd9c41d41f85934089919e23b592a12d49820bd22a70220a6c7

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "12fee7d0414afb5800dc03ba5a61af2119d6b06531ec059767af9b65bef044d5",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2004-06-24T20:37:58Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "2b295f0cd7f6092f80317913bfc3247daf5f4214adf74f3a0886b66c0be1ca83"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/0406564",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}