Pith Number

pith:VMI43OU2

pith:2017:VMI43OU2UA4BUW2KWU3ZP2U4PA

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Galaxy Interactions Trigger Rapid Black Hole Growth: an unprecedented view from the Hyper Suprime-Cam Survey

Adrian M. Price-Whelan, Alexie Leauthaud, Andy D. Goulding, Elinor Medezinski, Jenny E. Greene, Johnny Greco, Rachel Bezanson, Sean Johnson, Yoshiki Matsuoka

arxiv:1706.07436 v2 · 2017-06-22 · astro-ph.GA · astro-ph.HE

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VMI43OU2UA4BUW2KWU3ZP2U4PA}

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Record completeness

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

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	2026-05-18T00:26:29.781979Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ab11cdba9aa0381a5b4ab53797ea9c780075d864654cc63f16e5de9df9b0498e

Aliases

arxiv: 1706.07436 · arxiv_version: 1706.07436v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1706.07436 · pith_short_12: VMI43OU2UA4B · pith_short_16: VMI43OU2UA4BUW2K · pith_short_8: VMI43OU2

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/VMI43OU2UA4BUW2KWU3ZP2U4PA \
  | 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: ab11cdba9aa0381a5b4ab53797ea9c780075d864654cc63f16e5de9df9b0498e

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a404c241cb4656bd6c56b87ba74099eca2e1bee7f47474f2bf9bb82b551de189",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.HE"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2017-06-22T18:00:07Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "a9d2cec30af922745c4495e7ca4c8af372ca0b903ea46ef98ada18dcdeca8964"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1706.07436",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}