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pith:VB5YPBRO

pith:2018:VB5YPBROQLF3MC2635GELLFPIQ

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Investigating the Blue Straggler Stars radial distribution in globular clusters with Monte Carlo simulations

A. Sollima, F. R. Ferraro

arxiv:1811.11174 v1 · 2018-11-27 · astro-ph.GA · astro-ph.SR

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\pithnumber{VB5YPBROQLF3MC2635GELLFPIQ}

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First computed	2026-05-17T23:58:01.492648Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a87b87862e82cbb60b5edf4c45acaf440477213f11457cc13e5781b8f4cf391a

Aliases

arxiv: 1811.11174 · arxiv_version: 1811.11174v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1811.11174 · pith_short_12: VB5YPBROQLF3 · pith_short_16: VB5YPBROQLF3MC26 · pith_short_8: VB5YPBRO

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/VB5YPBROQLF3MC2635GELLFPIQ \
  | 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: a87b87862e82cbb60b5edf4c45acaf440477213f11457cc13e5781b8f4cf391a

Canonical record JSON

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  "metadata": {
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    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.SR"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2018-11-27T18:05:05Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f92dd6968e51cd15299ce53b9719cb5fdd7a332174901ece915cd44bca9da9fa"
  },
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  "source": {
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    "kind": "arxiv",
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  }
}