Pith Number

pith:2JVWHCXC

pith:2000:2JVWHCXCQVL5UKQINTLXIUGJYM

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Death of Stellar Baryonic Dark Matter Candidates

Brian Fields, David Graff, Katherine Freese

arxiv:astro-ph/0007444 v1 · 2000-07-28 · astro-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{2JVWHCXCQVL5UKQINTLXIUGJYM}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

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	2026-07-04T14:10:32.307626Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d26b638ae28557da2a086cd77450c9c33c0d63a2cfa5b588b0445e05cb1a51b0

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/0007444 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/0007444v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/0007444 · pith_short_12: 2JVWHCXCQVL5 · pith_short_16: 2JVWHCXCQVL5UKQI · pith_short_8: 2JVWHCXC

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/2JVWHCXCQVL5UKQINTLXIUGJYM \
  | 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: d26b638ae28557da2a086cd77450c9c33c0d63a2cfa5b588b0445e05cb1a51b0

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "2ccec0e0274a4076b07d7014390e7000c53eb4da3a7f51fff106910f42861766",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2000-07-28T16:53:27Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "878f07ebdad44d8c5ec3c4ed370d6f870848cdd9311e73c409ead40a15433e5f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/0007444",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}