Pith Number

pith:3Z4TV2PN

pith:2011:3Z4TV2PNFYHC7MXFMRM4ZUMEZE

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When was the Large Magellanic Cloud accreted onto the Galaxy ?

Kenji Bekki

arxiv:1106.2379 v1 · 2011-06-13 · astro-ph.CO

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{3Z4TV2PNFYHC7MXFMRM4ZUMEZE}

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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	2026-05-18T02:01:39.565727Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

de793ae9ed2e0e2fb2e56459ccd184c91ee44a22c0aa7910d6a157be7325ac5d

Aliases

arxiv: 1106.2379 · arxiv_version: 1106.2379v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1106.2379 · pith_short_12: 3Z4TV2PNFYHC · pith_short_16: 3Z4TV2PNFYHC7MXF · pith_short_8: 3Z4TV2PN

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/3Z4TV2PNFYHC7MXFMRM4ZUMEZE \
  | 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: de793ae9ed2e0e2fb2e56459ccd184c91ee44a22c0aa7910d6a157be7325ac5d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "92c7e16fae53e818089d2c04af2c39520021cd0f6388fb6d5a89bc59b921f8df",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.CO",
    "submitted_at": "2011-06-13T03:27:05Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "1ef0918ee651b16b45b30879892b4f06cdb70410e59d361b6fb12a40cc5b85df"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1106.2379",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}