Pith Number

pith:3Q2PHB4T

pith:2017:3Q2PHB4TX2ISMAE2HOHWFA242Q

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The Pristine survey I: Mining the Galaxy for the most metal-poor stars

Alan W. McConnachie, Anke Arentsen, Carlos Allende Prieto, David S. Aguado, Edouard J. Bernard, Eline Tolstoy, Elisabetta Caffau, Else Starkenburg, Jonay I. Gonzalez Hernandez, Julio F. Navarro, Kim A. Venn, Kris Youakim, Morgan Fouesneau, Nicolas Longeard, Nicolas Martin, Oliver Franke, Pascale Jablonka, Patrick Cote, Patrick Francois, Piercarlo Bonifacio, Raymond G. Carlberg, Rodrigo A. Ibata, Ruben Sanchez-Janssen, Stephen D. J. Gwyn, Vanessa Hill

arxiv:1705.01113 v1 · 2017-05-02 · astro-ph.GA · astro-ph.IM · astro-ph.SR

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{3Q2PHB4TX2ISMAE2HOHWFA242Q}

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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	2026-05-18T00:38:02.795359Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

dc34f38793be9126009a3b8f62835cd403316959570bbb2deb8be3110a81ccfd

Aliases

arxiv: 1705.01113 · arxiv_version: 1705.01113v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1705.01113 · pith_short_12: 3Q2PHB4TX2IS · pith_short_16: 3Q2PHB4TX2ISMAE2 · pith_short_8: 3Q2PHB4T

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/3Q2PHB4TX2ISMAE2HOHWFA242Q \
  | 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: dc34f38793be9126009a3b8f62835cd403316959570bbb2deb8be3110a81ccfd

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a86ee1752b52e19bfd58c16d791bf98d7126210c75dc944c2ee7ba7a07d70357",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.IM",
      "astro-ph.SR"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2017-05-02T18:02:34Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "5bb43760c8d6cba7ae28c563bcfbc6ed6e5614459d99ace8189511b562284919"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1705.01113",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}