Pith Number

pith:RPVNQ6DL

pith:2015:RPVNQ6DLNPPJ5OOOJQPSZ2LWHE

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A comparison of black hole growth in galaxy mergers with Gasoline and Ramses

Fabio Governato, Fr\'ed\'eric Bournaud, Jillian Bellovary, J. M. Gabor, Marta Volonteri, Pedro R. Capelo, Thomas Quinn

arxiv:1508.02224 v1 · 2015-08-10 · astro-ph.GA

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\pithnumber{RPVNQ6DLNPPJ5OOOJQPSZ2LWHE}

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First computed	2026-05-18T01:10:10.243606Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8bead8786b6bde9eb9ce4c1f2ce97639353234275bbf0ea9ee9352b514dfb4d1

Aliases

arxiv: 1508.02224 · arxiv_version: 1508.02224v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1508.02224 · pith_short_12: RPVNQ6DLNPPJ · pith_short_16: RPVNQ6DLNPPJ5OOO · pith_short_8: RPVNQ6DL

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/RPVNQ6DLNPPJ5OOOJQPSZ2LWHE \
  | 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: 8bead8786b6bde9eb9ce4c1f2ce97639353234275bbf0ea9ee9352b514dfb4d1

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "3a95381d70423acbe2fb8aa6a1339108a1b2bc5d1411daab6f4e753b38eb5f8f",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2015-08-10T12:43:52Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "dd9325e7e39b638c7a315a5d5dac95906373e1fb75118c4b969b27f93d077b37"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1508.02224",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}