Pith Number

pith:ZEK3EDK3

pith:2026:ZEK3EDK3VWKIYKZQRDDASAGOFC

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Intermediate-Mass Black Hole Formation from Hierarchical Mergers in Galactic Nuclei

Amanda Newton, Bao-Minh Hoang, Frederic A. Rasio, Fulya K{\i}ro\u{g}lu, Sanaea C. Rose

arxiv:2602.04176 v3 · 2026-02-04 · astro-ph.GA

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3 papers in Pith

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First computed	2026-07-07T02:19:46.497299Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c915b20d5bad948c2b3088c60900ce288d70bbf226e6d64f7aa5c8f13ff9b84c

Aliases

arxiv: 2602.04176 · arxiv_version: 2602.04176v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2602.04176 · pith_short_12: ZEK3EDK3VWKI · pith_short_16: ZEK3EDK3VWKIYKZQ · pith_short_8: ZEK3EDK3

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/ZEK3EDK3VWKIYKZQRDDASAGOFC \
  | 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: c915b20d5bad948c2b3088c60900ce288d70bbf226e6d64f7aa5c8f13ff9b84c

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "70002d89a5ee45cec1368723a1d86e96ad21d4d70fa02f71f42c6629d6699811",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2026-02-04T03:30:18Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "1c16cf8ef02b8f72b7c80ff7a3974cc826c2f82a07ebbd3a60ae2206f266056f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2602.04176",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}