Pith Number

pith:2XF4LSLV

pith:2012:2XF4LSLV5F3WZDVCAVYHR473V2

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The Vertical X-shaped Structure in the Milky Way: Evidence from a Simple Boxy Bulge Model

Juntai Shen (Shanghai Astronomical Observatory), Zhao-Yu Li

arxiv:1206.3779 v2 · 2012-06-17 · astro-ph.GA · astro-ph.CO

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{2XF4LSLV5F3WZDVCAVYHR473V2}

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T01:56:52.080164Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d5cbc5c975e9776c8ea2057078f3fbaebe6a28852c6bbba70d873bfadbdb9768

Aliases

arxiv: 1206.3779 · arxiv_version: 1206.3779v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1206.3779 · pith_short_12: 2XF4LSLV5F3W · pith_short_16: 2XF4LSLV5F3WZDVC · pith_short_8: 2XF4LSLV

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/2XF4LSLV5F3WZDVCAVYHR473V2 \
  | 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: d5cbc5c975e9776c8ea2057078f3fbaebe6a28852c6bbba70d873bfadbdb9768

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "3a5e01ea47d44d2c71503607c2308199315c1f410a9c02d6a390e18be5624831",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.CO"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2012-06-17T18:12:59Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "06b5f8b74a5cf3a0aa39becde6ad49253c24b5885593c3ad195ede95272aed4a"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1206.3779",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}