Pith Number

pith:4QUZDWCF

pith:2015:4QUZDWCF76LNIOTG2G6CULSZP4

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

High-velocity gas towards the LMC resides in the Milky Way halo

K.S. de Boer, K. Werner, P. Richter, T. Rauch

arxiv:1509.08946 v1 · 2015-09-29 · astro-ph.GA

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{4QUZDWCF76LNIOTG2G6CULSZP4}

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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	2026-05-18T01:26:41.297105Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e42991d845ff96d43a66d1bc2a2e597f2c584c8ca028886369a6a2830f24a7ad

Aliases

arxiv: 1509.08946 · arxiv_version: 1509.08946v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1509.08946 · pith_short_12: 4QUZDWCF76LN · pith_short_16: 4QUZDWCF76LNIOTG · pith_short_8: 4QUZDWCF

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/4QUZDWCF76LNIOTG2G6CULSZP4 \
  | 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: e42991d845ff96d43a66d1bc2a2e597f2c584c8ca028886369a6a2830f24a7ad

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "206f96411ca5f741b5e1543d3f214a0d2236767c3d41313d9324c84116d09dfa",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2015-09-29T20:42:50Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "5346e9c3b4586d7ae26206b06b0c55968c0cb3e403661512dc0df10a7628cffc"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1509.08946",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}