Pith Number

pith:2JADETKU

pith:2012:2JADETKUWRNIUWH5AOMNWHBQ52

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

A Bayesian Approach to Locating the Red Giant Branch Tip Magnitude (Part II); Distances to the Satellites of M31

Alan W. McConnachie, Annette M. N. Ferguson, Anthony R. Conn, Daniel B. Zucker, David Valls-Gabaud, Geraint F. Lewis, Mark A. Fardal, Mike J. Irwin, Nial Tanvir, Nicolas F. Martin, Quentin A. Parker, Rodrigo A. Ibata, Scott C. Chapman

arxiv:1209.4952 v1 · 2012-09-22 · astro-ph.CO · astro-ph.GA · astro-ph.IM

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{2JADETKUWRNIUWH5AOMNWHBQ52}

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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	2026-05-18T01:54:19.930663Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d240324d54b45a8a58fd0398db1c30eeb5e3826e48dd3763b9f67cf07f960189

Aliases

arxiv: 1209.4952 · arxiv_version: 1209.4952v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1209.4952 · pith_short_12: 2JADETKUWRNI · pith_short_16: 2JADETKUWRNIUWH5 · pith_short_8: 2JADETKU

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/2JADETKUWRNIUWH5AOMNWHBQ52 \
  | 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: d240324d54b45a8a58fd0398db1c30eeb5e3826e48dd3763b9f67cf07f960189

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "71fab9257495ddc94276401e2c9eaf553ec77b320bad41d3c8caa15cd128c5c4",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.GA",
      "astro-ph.IM"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.CO",
    "submitted_at": "2012-09-22T02:24:48Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "122c6f9d6fcb156893482a2d6931728e34b9eeb6d0444bf381094d86c54fe227"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1209.4952",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}