Pith Number

pith:3RJRZNEA

pith:2018:3RJRZNEADIUQW7E2EWV2B2VEIL

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

TRGB distances to galaxies in front of the Virgo cluster

Edward J. Shaya, Igor D. Karachentsev, Lidia N. Makarova, Luca Rizzi, R. Brent Tully

arxiv:1804.00469 v1 · 2018-04-02 · astro-ph.GA

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{3RJRZNEADIUQW7E2EWV2B2VEIL}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

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	2026-05-18T00:14:13.851205Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

dc531cb4801a290b7c9a25aba0eaa442e19528c443a792aaefb0937e24744f67

Aliases

arxiv: 1804.00469 · arxiv_version: 1804.00469v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1804.00469 · pith_short_12: 3RJRZNEADIUQ · pith_short_16: 3RJRZNEADIUQW7E2 · pith_short_8: 3RJRZNEA

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/3RJRZNEADIUQW7E2EWV2B2VEIL \
  | 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: dc531cb4801a290b7c9a25aba0eaa442e19528c443a792aaefb0937e24744f67

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "500064acf1dad4d2c5e7f75b629915c94bc16eba45f46b4c6974d632e50d38da",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2018-04-02T12:12:47Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "bec9a3dcc104c52be14233bb84d95f89722dc419cacba31fbeb0ac3ed961869d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1804.00469",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}