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pith:FE3VDRL6

pith:1997:FE3VDRL6RW5ZRMOBBF6MHNET37

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The Mass Distribution of Stellar Black Holes

Charles D. Bailyn, Jerome A. Orosz, Paolo Coppi, Raj K. Jain

arxiv:astro-ph/9708032 v2 · 1997-08-04 · astro-ph

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First computed	2026-07-04T16:03:10.210126Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

293751c57e8dbb98b1c1097cc3b493dfc8ca3fb03baeca0b20790be51d686177

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/9708032 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/9708032v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/9708032 · pith_short_12: FE3VDRL6RW5Z · pith_short_16: FE3VDRL6RW5ZRMOB · pith_short_8: FE3VDRL6

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/FE3VDRL6RW5ZRMOBBF6MHNET37 \
  | 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: 293751c57e8dbb98b1c1097cc3b493dfc8ca3fb03baeca0b20790be51d686177

Canonical record JSON

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  "metadata": {
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    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1997-08-04T19:13:27Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "58f84a6eede198da2dbba9ed15376b6fc8aaf0e0e8a1d1cadf32a71e80e4facb"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/9708032",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}