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pith:VKIJIG2Z

pith:2005:VKIJIG2ZT4KVOOCTJM76AEPQ7P
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A Unified, Merger-Driven Model for the Origin of Starbursts, Quasars, the Cosmic X-Ray Background, Supermassive Black Holes and Galaxy Spheroids

(2) Carnegie-Mellon, (3) MPA Garching), Brant Robertson (1), Lars Hernquist (1), Philip F. Hopkins (1), Thomas J. Cox (1), Tiziana Di Matteo (2), Volker Springel (3) ((1) Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

arxiv:astro-ph/0506398 v3 · 2005-06-16 · astro-ph

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Builder pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
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Schema pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

aa90941b599f155738534b3fe011f0fbf1877ac46b2fd13df9279aea11d5777b

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/0506398 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/0506398v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/0506398 · pith_short_12: VKIJIG2ZT4KV · pith_short_16: VKIJIG2ZT4KVOOCT · pith_short_8: VKIJIG2Z
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Verify this Pith Number yourself 
curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/VKIJIG2ZT4KVOOCTJM76AEPQ7P \
  | 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: aa90941b599f155738534b3fe011f0fbf1877ac46b2fd13df9279aea11d5777b
Canonical record JSON 
{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "fc48b5546f88b9fcd7ab52e77725b6d0cd3cab6b2ebda0a87dbbf58c3c43e1b9",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2005-06-16T20:18:57Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "551e1bb53763e93916f4f028990662e0a8ade3d088ad23932039a9ebd0bf58b3"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/0506398",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}