Pith Number

pith:6PWI4QA3

pith:1999:6PWI4QA3A4GVJBR6JW3CY4OD5O

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Monte Carlo Simulations of Globular Cluster Evolution - II. Mass Spectra, Stellar Evolution and Lifetimes in the Galaxy

Cody P. Nave, Frederic A. Rasio (MIT), Kriten J. Joshi

arxiv:astro-ph/9912155 v3 · 1999-12-08 · astro-ph

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\pithnumber{6PWI4QA3A4GVJBR6JW3CY4OD5O}

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4 Citations 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	2026-05-18T01:40:12.328978Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

f3ec8e401b070d54863e4db62c71c3ebb0025aa693cf7e46ec06bf4a4dbe33b5

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/9912155 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/9912155v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/9912155 · pith_short_12: 6PWI4QA3A4GV · pith_short_16: 6PWI4QA3A4GVJBR6 · pith_short_8: 6PWI4QA3

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/6PWI4QA3A4GVJBR6JW3CY4OD5O \
  | 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: f3ec8e401b070d54863e4db62c71c3ebb0025aa693cf7e46ec06bf4a4dbe33b5

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "dc464816a0eead206d038b0a73269bfd344e0be119700203e65de711f66598cd",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1999-12-08T07:47:56Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "1394a5cd82a5310380d66cbef82d24b87c0940b30f8f065d4da95271b7d69223"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/9912155",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}