Pith Number

pith:Z7B7XIWF

pith:1996:Z7B7XIWFGF2EBI7KPQQGARJVT6

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

A new method to determine Globular Cluster ages

Paolo Padoan, Raul Jimenez

arxiv:astro-ph/9602014 v1 · 1996-02-02 · astro-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{Z7B7XIWFGF2EBI7KPQQGARJVT6}

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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	2026-05-18T01:07:41.167517Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

cfc3fba2c5317440a3ea7c206045359fa93a2b04c6732a7a44f4ec3ade414111

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/9602014 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/9602014v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/9602014 · pith_short_12: Z7B7XIWFGF2E · pith_short_16: Z7B7XIWFGF2EBI7K · pith_short_8: Z7B7XIWF

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/Z7B7XIWFGF2EBI7KPQQGARJVT6 \
  | 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: cfc3fba2c5317440a3ea7c206045359fa93a2b04c6732a7a44f4ec3ade414111

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "956ea2cf620b773f2cd59dd1f820f1b0ed681be901bb71e2fd0ca2fd9438e6c9",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1996-02-02T18:38:26Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b3e38921859394df907a3abf53df965786bf99c02ee4755adbe9b573a8e11671"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/9602014",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}