Pith Number

pith:WSXI6OBL

pith:2005:WSXI6OBL3MWP3V7T4HLVPKVUK2

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Blue Stragglers as Stellar Collision Products: the Angular Momentum Question

Alison Sills, Melvyn B. Davies, Tim Adams

arxiv:astro-ph/0501142 v1 · 2005-01-10 · astro-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{WSXI6OBL3MWP3V7T4HLVPKVUK2}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

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	2026-07-04T16:50:34.908210Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b4ae8f382bdb2cfdd7f3e1d757aab4568801b83e51d04012b6e3b1fb401fe5e5

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/0501142 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/0501142v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/0501142 · pith_short_12: WSXI6OBL3MWP · pith_short_16: WSXI6OBL3MWP3V7T · pith_short_8: WSXI6OBL

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/WSXI6OBL3MWP3V7T4HLVPKVUK2 \
  | 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: b4ae8f382bdb2cfdd7f3e1d757aab4568801b83e51d04012b6e3b1fb401fe5e5

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "5cf14059a6b43252fd5f698dbb17f80a695605e1896bc97a5cc806384401771c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2005-01-10T16:06:40Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "3e14100a6b9dfcb907ee88d05f73532ed3eefaed1facf386fb5c002b32c548c6"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/0501142",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}