Pith Number

pith:XR5OAYHW

pith:2017:XR5OAYHWMVDNQK6DWGRLCEO2N5

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Hierarchical Bayesian inference of the Initial Mass Function in Composite Stellar Populations

G. Popping, L.V.E. Koopmans, M. Dries, R.S. Somerville, S.C. Trager

arxiv:1711.07192 v1 · 2017-11-20 · astro-ph.GA

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{XR5OAYHWMVDNQK6DWGRLCEO2N5}

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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	2026-05-18T00:30:11.988255Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

bc7ae060f66546d82bc3b1a2b111da6f504e866a22fb50d4aa6c3909e0dde2b7

Aliases

arxiv: 1711.07192 · arxiv_version: 1711.07192v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1711.07192 · pith_short_12: XR5OAYHWMVDN · pith_short_16: XR5OAYHWMVDNQK6D · pith_short_8: XR5OAYHW

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/XR5OAYHWMVDNQK6DWGRLCEO2N5 \
  | 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: bc7ae060f66546d82bc3b1a2b111da6f504e866a22fb50d4aa6c3909e0dde2b7

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "eb268475bde9f14ea912d09454ab52875c9e8a3e406aed37783cd810297d6c0d",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2017-11-20T08:24:20Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "4994bc023c3fcde7937084eabf839e72ea6f1404ece44ca51d36a860e13c25ea"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1711.07192",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}