Pith Number

pith:RI2U7L4I

pith:2002:RI2U7L4IKRRTKHK24YSM4EIP3Y

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Globular cluster formation from gravitational tidal effects of merging and interacting galaxies

Duncan A. Forbes, K. Bekki, M. A. Beasley, W. J. Couch

arxiv:astro-ph/0206008 v1 · 2002-06-02 · astro-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{RI2U7L4IKRRTKHK24YSM4EIP3Y}

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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	2026-07-04T16:30:07.567437Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8a354faf885463351d5ae624ce110fde10c03e374847608fea7e33b3f9162540

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/0206008 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/0206008v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/0206008 · pith_short_12: RI2U7L4IKRRT · pith_short_16: RI2U7L4IKRRTKHK2 · pith_short_8: RI2U7L4I

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/RI2U7L4IKRRTKHK24YSM4EIP3Y \
  | 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: 8a354faf885463351d5ae624ce110fde10c03e374847608fea7e33b3f9162540

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "98dde8f72d3a95b57251954d90bf0b8bb9bf54b600eaaca6b5d341101b65effc",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2002-06-02T07:47:48Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "542968ab37c241ef1c2b6e81af3d0950fb48f5969cd96c9622872a8309b1fe2a"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/0206008",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}