Pith Number

pith:Y2ODBQUI

pith:2017:Y2ODBQUILWXLDVDPMV5LOOSQUV

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Predicting Stellar-Mass Black Hole Populations in Globular Clusters

Carl L. Rodriguez, Frederic A. Rasio, Newlin C. Weatherford, Sourav Chatterjee

arxiv:1712.03979 v3 · 2017-12-11 · astro-ph.SR · astro-ph.GA · gr-qc

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{Y2ODBQUILWXLDVDPMV5LOOSQUV}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T00:06:40.991583Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c69c30c2885daeb1d46f657ab73a50a54973c54c728b95755e17251eef84d225

Aliases

arxiv: 1712.03979 · arxiv_version: 1712.03979v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1712.03979 · pith_short_12: Y2ODBQUILWXL · pith_short_16: Y2ODBQUILWXLDVDP · pith_short_8: Y2ODBQUI

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/Y2ODBQUILWXLDVDPMV5LOOSQUV \
  | 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: c69c30c2885daeb1d46f657ab73a50a54973c54c728b95755e17251eef84d225

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "8cd1b80c187ed34eb9100f54bc9101b05e01353b2c5bb209f885a364cf3e378c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.GA",
      "gr-qc"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.SR",
    "submitted_at": "2017-12-11T19:00:13Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "586e0efc797ea916483ca287ef648cbb29a9a8094002490e71932dd409d886d6"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1712.03979",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}