Pith Number

pith:ZA36FHQC

pith:2017:ZA36FHQCP3I7LX4CXUD3OBENCI

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The Global Mass Functions of 35 Galactic globular clusters: II. Clues on the Initial Mass Function and Black Hole Retention Fraction

Antonio Sollima, Holger Baumgardt

arxiv:1708.09530 v2 · 2017-08-31 · astro-ph.GA

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ZA36FHQCP3I7LX4CXUD3OBENCI}

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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	2026-05-18T00:31:59.535752Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c837e29e027ed1f5df82bd07b7048d122bddc7864ca8053084f74c74e5467771

Aliases

arxiv: 1708.09530 · arxiv_version: 1708.09530v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1708.09530 · pith_short_12: ZA36FHQCP3I7 · pith_short_16: ZA36FHQCP3I7LX4C · pith_short_8: ZA36FHQC

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/ZA36FHQCP3I7LX4CXUD3OBENCI \
  | 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: c837e29e027ed1f5df82bd07b7048d122bddc7864ca8053084f74c74e5467771

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f3047c55a02c6170be4699b6d8ad8f94f872f08efb45e443dffb9cd7c83c06a7",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2017-08-31T01:46:26Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "599e3dcfca78b7cbf78e1c2ac1ebe6bb8f8548256bac1c21043d9b75de683f89"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1708.09530",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}