Pith Number

pith:RLF5DZQ5

pith:2016:RLF5DZQ5RL2JXDHAAPLUNFNPYU

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The Carnegie-Irvine Galaxy Survey. IV. A Method to Determine the Average Mass Ratio of Mergers That Built Massive Elliptical Galaxies

(2) Kavli Institute for Astronomy, 3), (3) Peking University, (4) GMTO, (5) Shanghai Astronomical Observatory, (6) University of California, Aaron J. Barth (6) ((1) Kavli-IPMU (WPI), Astrophysics, Chien Y. Peng (4), Irvine), Luis C. Ho (2, Song Huang (1), University of Tokyo, Zhao-Yu Li (5)

arxiv:1603.00876 v1 · 2016-03-02 · astro-ph.GA

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{RLF5DZQ5RL2JXDHAAPLUNFNPYU}

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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	2026-05-18T01:16:13.743909Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8acbd1e61d8af49b8ce003d74695afc501c73e3bfa311d55c80c47d5c0d62c33

Aliases

arxiv: 1603.00876 · arxiv_version: 1603.00876v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1603.00876 · pith_short_12: RLF5DZQ5RL2J · pith_short_16: RLF5DZQ5RL2JXDHA · pith_short_8: RLF5DZQ5

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/RLF5DZQ5RL2JXDHAAPLUNFNPYU \
  | 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: 8acbd1e61d8af49b8ce003d74695afc501c73e3bfa311d55c80c47d5c0d62c33

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e10070e45ddf2b81c0421a481871b9daa01eb4e6a102e955f3222abd1ccfca67",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2016-03-02T21:00:01Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d3ffc90c74c99edb047189eb7e122e5b6ff285232d9187c7ade9ad055d13ede4"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1603.00876",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}