Pith Number

pith:VDHEXPFI

pith:2010:VDHEXPFIGOAWXWXNYL5HPGIDUP

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Intermediate-Mass Black Holes in Early Globular Clusters

Annibale D'Ercole, Enrico Vesperini, Francesca D'Antona, Stephen L.W. McMillan

arxiv:1003.3470 v1 · 2010-03-17 · astro-ph.GA

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VDHEXPFIGOAWXWXNYL5HPGIDUP}

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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	2026-05-18T02:08:26.183729Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a8ce4bbca833816bdaedc2fa779903a3ca5d4e70304b8e4f0c8bb3101238a999

Aliases

arxiv: 1003.3470 · arxiv_version: 1003.3470v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1003.3470 · pith_short_12: VDHEXPFIGOAW · pith_short_16: VDHEXPFIGOAWXWXN · pith_short_8: VDHEXPFI

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/VDHEXPFIGOAWXWXNYL5HPGIDUP \
  | 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: a8ce4bbca833816bdaedc2fa779903a3ca5d4e70304b8e4f0c8bb3101238a999

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "57fa90d275996368c2a52577be37a989d3bb4ad59ec40bdd23cf2c57ba237928",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2010-03-17T20:52:03Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d7af75bf89a295080f63c462e55bf9d63f08f57a9ba84a3b0cbd57d1c5e8f562"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1003.3470",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}