Pith Number

pith:6QPSD5YD

pith:2017:6QPSD5YDTE4IQ5QFOSWZO4YNY6

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The Illustris Simulation: Supermassive Black Hole - Galaxy Connection Beyond the Bulge

Bur\c{c}in Mutlu-Pakdil, Ian B. Hewitt, Joel C. Berrier, Lauren E. Koval, Marc S. Seigar, Patrick Treuthardt

arxiv:1711.03958 v1 · 2017-11-10 · astro-ph.GA

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{6QPSD5YDTE4IQ5QFOSWZO4YNY6}

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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	2026-05-18T00:27:18.107302Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

f41f21f703993888760574ad97730dc7960fdaa7b6d7258aaf6e2f0697238d16

Aliases

arxiv: 1711.03958 · arxiv_version: 1711.03958v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1711.03958 · pith_short_12: 6QPSD5YDTE4I · pith_short_16: 6QPSD5YDTE4IQ5QF · pith_short_8: 6QPSD5YD

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/6QPSD5YDTE4IQ5QFOSWZO4YNY6 \
  | 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: f41f21f703993888760574ad97730dc7960fdaa7b6d7258aaf6e2f0697238d16

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "9dfeb35f14535b31282d48c41ca37bd4000adb9da13d77ea297fcb916f08e2ee",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2017-11-10T18:38:37Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "6da809b55cdae68c2c3573a599ed008d11b92417d7e3c9235ddb549bcbd98d4a"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1711.03958",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}