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pith:2021:EGPKNAJFB6N7QTSTU4QU5HEFX5
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The excess of cool supergiants from contemporary stellar evolution models defies the metallicity-independent Humphreys-Davidson limit

Adam S. Jermyn, Avishai Gilkis, Hugues Sana, Iair Arcavi, Laurent Mahy, Lidia M. Oskinova, Tomer Shenar, Varsha Ramachandran

arxiv:2102.03102 v1 · 2021-02-05 · astro-ph.SR

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First computed 2026-07-05T02:15:42.219600Z
Builder pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature Pith Ed25519 (pith-v1-2026-05) · public key
Schema pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

219ea681250f9bf84e53a7214e9c85bf4089a8a5e0c97d3bc59e41d2f9ddb9db

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arxiv: 2102.03102 · arxiv_version: 2102.03102v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2102.03102 · pith_short_12: EGPKNAJFB6N7 · pith_short_16: EGPKNAJFB6N7QTST · pith_short_8: EGPKNAJF
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curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/EGPKNAJFB6N7QTSTU4QU5HEFX5 \
  | 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: 219ea681250f9bf84e53a7214e9c85bf4089a8a5e0c97d3bc59e41d2f9ddb9db
Canonical record JSON
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