Pith Number

pith:RQWR7GMT

pith:2018:RQWR7GMTDLC5PTTNLFT7OPF32U

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The Formation of Compact Elliptical Galaxies in The Vicinity of A Massive Galaxy: The Role of Ram-pressure Confinement

Chelsea Spengler, James W. Wadsley, Joseph Caruana, Karl Fiteni, Luis C. Ho, Mark A. Norris, Min Du, Patrick Cote, Peter Erwin, Samuel W. F. Earp, Thomas R. Quinn, Victor P. Debattista

arxiv:1811.06778 v2 · 2018-11-16 · astro-ph.GA

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{RQWR7GMTDLC5PTTNLFT7OPF32U}

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First computed	2026-05-17T23:47:59.101554Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8c2d1f99931ac5d7ce6d5967f73cbbd509dfc296eabb0c7e3687c93eabe17369

Aliases

arxiv: 1811.06778 · arxiv_version: 1811.06778v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1811.06778 · pith_short_12: RQWR7GMTDLC5 · pith_short_16: RQWR7GMTDLC5PTTN · pith_short_8: RQWR7GMT

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/RQWR7GMTDLC5PTTNLFT7OPF32U \
  | 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: 8c2d1f99931ac5d7ce6d5967f73cbbd509dfc296eabb0c7e3687c93eabe17369

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a1e396d0017da4e92b69fbc3c7980402cb23dfc8ffed0b6b9380bb8008713a6c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2018-11-16T12:22:13Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "0ac20aeaf4342ae03e84978f2227ebd40bb58e25b5b5a992bd29ae8f58d76cf8"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1811.06778",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}