Pith Number

pith:TNER7VAT

pith:2014:TNER7VATSPUSR7BVHVQE5GDDLJ

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Evidence for Two Distinct Stellar Initial Mass Functions : Probing for Clues to the Dichotomy

Dennis Zaritsky (Steward Obs., Janet E. Colucci (Carnegie Obs.), Peter M. Pessev (Gemini South), Rebecca A. Bernstein (Carnegie Obs.), Rupali Chandar (U. Toledo), U. Arizona)

arxiv:1409.3235 v1 · 2014-09-10 · astro-ph.GA

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{TNER7VATSPUSR7BVHVQE5GDDLJ}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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	2026-05-18T01:42:03.621613Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

9b491fd41393e928fc353d604e98635a4dfffbb72f75b77c20b580c5b77ba46b

Aliases

arxiv: 1409.3235 · arxiv_version: 1409.3235v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1409.3235 · pith_short_12: TNER7VATSPUS · pith_short_16: TNER7VATSPUSR7BV · pith_short_8: TNER7VAT

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/TNER7VATSPUSR7BVHVQE5GDDLJ \
  | 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: 9b491fd41393e928fc353d604e98635a4dfffbb72f75b77c20b580c5b77ba46b

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "591707db195062d30c54f020054d689660ec56a2a3a6f66b98755f12fa584bc6",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2014-09-10T20:00:34Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "35e8d54b0d77ed234d697363cad7d0438d7d973f1c674ee8b9638c121e6072c3"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1409.3235",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}