Pith Number

pith:XIK6VV7U

pith:2014:XIK6VV7UJUZ2MET25HWVX4PUSF

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Growth and activity of black holes in galaxy mergers with varying mass ratios

Fabio Governato, Jillian M. Bellovary, Lucio Mayer, Marta Volonteri, Massimo Dotti, Pedro R. Capelo

arxiv:1409.0004 v2 · 2014-08-29 · astro-ph.GA

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{XIK6VV7UJUZ2MET25HWVX4PUSF}

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T01:42:11.614478Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ba15ead7f44d33a6127ae9ed5bf1f49173159ebf52dc8cd22561d8c88e664bc7

Aliases

arxiv: 1409.0004 · arxiv_version: 1409.0004v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1409.0004 · pith_short_12: XIK6VV7UJUZ2 · pith_short_16: XIK6VV7UJUZ2MET2 · pith_short_8: XIK6VV7U

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/XIK6VV7UJUZ2MET25HWVX4PUSF \
  | 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: ba15ead7f44d33a6127ae9ed5bf1f49173159ebf52dc8cd22561d8c88e664bc7

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d5230e96c7b7b100098fb70e26ba733ae7f2ad8edca5daf8311db4eec7e6066e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2014-08-29T20:00:01Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "8b8fd3a505d9845dca0996044b9b2b6779b88b07a3e50560a95cb811fe220a65"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1409.0004",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}