Pith Number

pith:3IQ2NU2Y

pith:2014:3IQ2NU2Y4UW6D4B55YS3NSQ77S

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The Most Distant Stars in the Milky Way

Andrew A. West, Beth Willman, Jay Strader, John J. Bochanski, Nelson Caldwell, Robyn Sanderson, Warren Brown

arxiv:1407.2610 v1 · 2014-07-09 · astro-ph.SR · astro-ph.GA

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{3IQ2NU2Y4UW6D4B55YS3NSQ77S}

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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	2026-05-18T02:48:00.329309Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

da21a6d358e52de1f03dee25b6ca1ffc9dabd716722307bc33f708680cfc6dc5

Aliases

arxiv: 1407.2610 · arxiv_version: 1407.2610v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1407.2610 · pith_short_12: 3IQ2NU2Y4UW6 · pith_short_16: 3IQ2NU2Y4UW6D4B5 · pith_short_8: 3IQ2NU2Y

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/3IQ2NU2Y4UW6D4B55YS3NSQ77S \
  | 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: da21a6d358e52de1f03dee25b6ca1ffc9dabd716722307bc33f708680cfc6dc5

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "137569bc0c6b849e0fbb2a6a523c137610beca9f827bdacede59a556ab0d20c3",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.GA"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.SR",
    "submitted_at": "2014-07-09T20:00:09Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "fff3a33a645f0f00862ca2dd79a5cd292fcaf829afaa6ca34f4cef9fd4c7e1aa"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1407.2610",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}