Pith Number

pith:UU3W2V6K

pith:1997:UU3W2V6KYNW2PGIHMUTCA2LNMF

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Stability Criteria for Mass Transfer in Binary Stellar Evolution

E. P. J. van den Heuvel (CHEAF, E. S. Phinney (Caltech), G. E. Soberman, University of Amsterdam)

arxiv:astro-ph/9703016 v1 · 1997-03-04 · astro-ph

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The Contribution of Disrupted Dense Star Clusters to Gaia's Compact Object Binaries

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First computed	2026-07-04T15:50:38.867353Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a5376d57cac36da79907652620696d61790b89861c0960623d775ce70afd076e

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/9703016 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/9703016v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/9703016 · pith_short_12: UU3W2V6KYNW2 · pith_short_16: UU3W2V6KYNW2PGIH · pith_short_8: UU3W2V6K

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/UU3W2V6KYNW2PGIHMUTCA2LNMF \
  | 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: a5376d57cac36da79907652620696d61790b89861c0960623d775ce70afd076e

Canonical record JSON

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  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "7f803f31ac041dd24dd902f38e437309e5e1d5109b1e54449fcc6cba26597ffb",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1997-03-04T21:49:35Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "aeb3d4e714d2fddcb8b9a949ba452d80a7856fc9afff4eee4dda6556c8452e9c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/9703016",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}