Pith Number

pith:4RIC6N6Y

pith:2017:4RIC6N6YQFKTQVYUDB4LESUTS3

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Disk Heating, Galactoseismology, and the Formation of Stellar Halos

Adrian M. Price-Whelan, Allyson A. Sheffield, Branimir Sesar, Chervin Laporte, Kathryn V. Johnston, Maria Bergemann, Rachael S. Beaton, Sanjib Sharma, Steven R. Majewski, Ting S. Li

arxiv:1709.00491 v1 · 2017-09-01 · astro-ph.GA

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{4RIC6N6YQFKTQVYUDB4LESUTS3}

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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	2026-05-18T00:36:07.918603Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e4502f37d881553857141878b24a9396cecd3ffa2971a496ec49a2a2d2253afc

Aliases

arxiv: 1709.00491 · arxiv_version: 1709.00491v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1709.00491 · pith_short_12: 4RIC6N6YQFKT · pith_short_16: 4RIC6N6YQFKTQVYU · pith_short_8: 4RIC6N6Y

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/4RIC6N6YQFKTQVYUDB4LESUTS3 \
  | 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: e4502f37d881553857141878b24a9396cecd3ffa2971a496ec49a2a2d2253afc

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "146ba1e30633f83ca5bddbd5711ffb32a2a39a18bc62470a1c74a93d8e0c57b4",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2017-09-01T21:39:44Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "340987ca5abca449117108d07c18ac52b02001b605be703da51018aaf72e3a41"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1709.00491",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}