Pith Number

pith:MEYAKTRC

pith:2016:MEYAKTRCZK2VPPKGKAIUFTRQHB

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The Next Generation Virgo Cluster Survey (NGVS). XIII. The Luminosity and Mass Function of Galaxies in the Core of the Virgo Cluster and the Contribution from Disrupted Satellites

Alan W. McConnachie, Alessandro Boselli, Andres Jordan, Ariane Lancon, Chengze Liu, Eric Emsellem, Hongxin Zhang, James E. Taylor, J. Christopher Mihos, Jean-Charles Cuillandre, Joel Roediger, John P. Blakeslee, Laura Ferrarese, Lauren A. MacArthur, Patrick Cote, Patrick R. Durrell, Pierre-Alain Duc, Puragra Guhathakurta, Ruben Sanchez-Janssen, S. Boissier, S.D.J. Gwyn, Simona Mei, Stephane Courteau, Thomas H. Puzia

arxiv:1604.06462 v1 · 2016-04-21 · astro-ph.GA

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\pithnumber{MEYAKTRCZK2VPPKGKAIUFTRQHB}

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First computed	2026-05-18T01:12:29.432433Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6130054e22cab557bd46501142ce30385968a6d074312d9be7a22389d0a2dd7a

Aliases

arxiv: 1604.06462 · arxiv_version: 1604.06462v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1604.06462 · pith_short_12: MEYAKTRCZK2V · pith_short_16: MEYAKTRCZK2VPPKG · pith_short_8: MEYAKTRC

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/MEYAKTRCZK2VPPKGKAIUFTRQHB \
  | 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: 6130054e22cab557bd46501142ce30385968a6d074312d9be7a22389d0a2dd7a

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "17f363a7e03871a8d88447fe0d62a2f6cea6d74f0282485fad76b2bae58e9855",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2016-04-21T20:00:05Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "225349017ca1b2d28c4816bda5b04334d8889fce8a684ffccad0925aee048e8c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1604.06462",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}