Pith Number

pith:Y3OV6SAA

pith:2020:Y3OV6SAAFPALBXSKYGIQ62WJP2

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The mass budget for intermediate-mass black holes in dense star clusters

Michael Y. Grudi\'c, Philip F. Hopkins, Yanlong Shi

arxiv:2008.12290 v2 · 2020-08-27 · astro-ph.GA

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{Y3OV6SAAFPALBXSKYGIQ62WJP2}

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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	2026-07-05T02:43:29.880610Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c6dd5f48002bc0b0de4ac1910f6ac97eb898e008e78fb2306fbfc5c3d718d1ca

Aliases

arxiv: 2008.12290 · arxiv_version: 2008.12290v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2008.12290 · pith_short_12: Y3OV6SAAFPAL · pith_short_16: Y3OV6SAAFPALBXSK · pith_short_8: Y3OV6SAA

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/Y3OV6SAAFPALBXSKYGIQ62WJP2 \
  | 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: c6dd5f48002bc0b0de4ac1910f6ac97eb898e008e78fb2306fbfc5c3d718d1ca

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "801830e9127cc0af645de35c1863df9f5f9134bc0ee7b551bb9df17e388874eb",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2020-08-27T17:55:38Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "53326c7dd77c677af8384fc0486285e61ee538d7d02a638f6e89f6ee8f9d7237"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2008.12290",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}