Pith Number

pith:VC4DRLTU

pith:2012:VC4DRLTUMMDDYYKUWBZZTJPRHW

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Mass loss of stars in star clusters: an energy source for dynamical evolution

Mark Gieles (Cambridge)

arxiv:1209.2071 v1 · 2012-09-10 · astro-ph.SR · astro-ph.GA

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VC4DRLTUMMDDYYKUWBZZTJPRHW}

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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	2026-05-18T03:45:53.825053Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a8b838ae7463063c6154b07399a5f13d9561d029b1deb93a153ae7984520669b

Aliases

arxiv: 1209.2071 · arxiv_version: 1209.2071v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1209.2071 · pith_short_12: VC4DRLTUMMDD · pith_short_16: VC4DRLTUMMDDYYKU · pith_short_8: VC4DRLTU

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/VC4DRLTUMMDDYYKUWBZZTJPRHW \
  | 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: a8b838ae7463063c6154b07399a5f13d9561d029b1deb93a153ae7984520669b

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "2bf26b9bf7fa516d759b8e9911bb567ece1f44e2a259b57bd4a7edfaf7b2d5fe",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.GA"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.SR",
    "submitted_at": "2012-09-10T17:33:19Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "48eed13c2eab7c21387a8b96ff99bb532087f90abe77292d0eeebf5b50287d55"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1209.2071",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}