Pith Number

pith:VRQZPIXA

pith:2007:VRQZPIXAGI5ETVMSTZWEQFF6JS

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Shaping the Globular Cluster Mass Function by Stellar-Dynamical Evaporation

Dean E. McLaughlin, S. Michael Fall

arxiv:0704.0080 v4 · 2007-04-01 · astro-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VRQZPIXAGI5ETVMSTZWEQFF6JS}

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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	2026-05-18T04:36:42.352894Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ac6197a2e0323a49d5929e6c4814be4c9ce68448d2230301ee5b08a3a6120780

Aliases

arxiv: 0704.0080 · arxiv_version: 0704.0080v4 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.0704.0080 · pith_short_12: VRQZPIXAGI5E · pith_short_16: VRQZPIXAGI5ETVMS · pith_short_8: VRQZPIXA

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/VRQZPIXAGI5ETVMSTZWEQFF6JS \
  | 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: ac6197a2e0323a49d5929e6c4814be4c9ce68448d2230301ee5b08a3a6120780

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "5c77a929acfa41fdff9abd515a023d23820e8721a8a37da32f84431ff63f947e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2007-04-01T10:20:37Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "514f1b66ceeebcdf18f0a80469a02da001355397fb8e1fca23ada7a2803f073b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "0704.0080",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 4
  }
}