Pith Number

pith:OBDJAWR3

pith:1998:OBDJAWR34JJMBWN52LDCTHKNQE

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Supermassive Black Holes and the Evolution of Galaxies

A. Dressler, A. V. Filippenko, D. Richstone, E. A. Ajhar, G. Bower, J. Kormendy, J. Magorrian, K. Gebhardt, L. C. Ho, R. Bender, R. Green, S. M. Faber, S. Tremaine, T. Lauer

arxiv:astro-ph/9810378 v1 · 1998-10-23 · astro-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{OBDJAWR34JJMBWN52LDCTHKNQE}

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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.

Cited by

3 papers in Pith

Constraints on the extreme mass-ratio inspiral population from LISA data

PEARLS: Two Distinct Populations of AGN Hosts Moving Between Star Formation and Quiescence

Statistical evidence for massive black hole recoils in active galactic nuclei

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T04:22:32.198728Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

7046905a3be252c0d9bdd2c6299d4d81129fd5e20d12a170cc5aa6962b851833

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/9810378 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/9810378v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/9810378 · pith_short_12: OBDJAWR34JJM · pith_short_16: OBDJAWR34JJMBWN5 · pith_short_8: OBDJAWR3

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/OBDJAWR34JJMBWN52LDCTHKNQE \
  | 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: 7046905a3be252c0d9bdd2c6299d4d81129fd5e20d12a170cc5aa6962b851833

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "74a735f2b80412be4d07e96b0428b089e606b8704218b0d37edac295721232be",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1998-10-23T00:03:55Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e46d0c75f45a2af8219f6b190c2c9d25d1fb64fb017a7c6a9dd8230d8086eb67"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/9810378",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}