Pith Number

pith:45IQJ2B7

pith:1995:45IQJ2B7QHE3WOG2TIBCYXCERD

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Weak Lensing and the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

Albert Stebbins, Joshua A. Frieman, Tim McKay

arxiv:astro-ph/9510012 v2 · 1995-10-03 · astro-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{45IQJ2B7QHE3WOG2TIBCYXCERD}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

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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	2026-05-18T04:24:36.732789Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e75104e83f81c9bb38da9a022c5c4488c53c3376525935a37eda107de269bef6

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/9510012 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/9510012v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/9510012 · pith_short_12: 45IQJ2B7QHE3 · pith_short_16: 45IQJ2B7QHE3WOG2 · pith_short_8: 45IQJ2B7

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/45IQJ2B7QHE3WOG2TIBCYXCERD \
  | 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: e75104e83f81c9bb38da9a022c5c4488c53c3376525935a37eda107de269bef6

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "dd96d5a162e238a3e1d1948300132613083b93432519d451c018c82ff87f7c95",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1995-10-03T23:14:08Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "402d79bd760127f897656268113435333a26fe782ac5094609e4f31ac4ae9c19"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/9510012",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}