Pith Number

pith:3IK5SO72

pith:1997:3IK5SO72VQ5LWXLMHBEJLTCC6C

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Near infrared star counts as a test of Galactic bar structure

Cambridge, Gerard Gilmore (Institute of Astronomy, M. Unavane, UK)

arxiv:astro-ph/9710316 v1 · 1997-10-28 · astro-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{3IK5SO72VQ5LWXLMHBEJLTCC6C}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T01:40:16.548470Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

da15d93bfaac3abb5d6c384895cc42f0af7ae8ad8cb2883acdd124484f984e9e

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/9710316 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/9710316v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/9710316 · pith_short_12: 3IK5SO72VQ5L · pith_short_16: 3IK5SO72VQ5LWXLM · pith_short_8: 3IK5SO72

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/3IK5SO72VQ5LWXLMHBEJLTCC6C \
  | 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: da15d93bfaac3abb5d6c384895cc42f0af7ae8ad8cb2883acdd124484f984e9e

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "79e8e770b41ff44e6cc9a040eb997e671ee03169ec60db755525016f476aeba7",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1997-10-28T11:52:39Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d9bf6509ad0b68defc5f86317cc0e186a5755c7308904b1dabbdfa66b5991a7b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/9710316",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}