Pith Number

pith:4XSTAZD5

pith:2017:4XSTAZD5K3N46AR2ERPA2KTZIH

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The Structure of the Distant Kuiper Belt in a Nice Model Scenario

Cory J. Shankman, J. J. Kavelaars, Mike Alexandersen, Ramon Brasser, Rosemary E. Pike, Samantha Lawler

arxiv:1701.07041 v1 · 2017-01-24 · astro-ph.EP

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{4XSTAZD5K3N46AR2ERPA2KTZIH}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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	2026-05-18T00:49:09.563878Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e5e530647d56dbcf023a245e0d2a7941e24f66aaa98edc7aebf2870cd84eaf10

Aliases

arxiv: 1701.07041 · arxiv_version: 1701.07041v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1701.07041 · pith_short_12: 4XSTAZD5K3N4 · pith_short_16: 4XSTAZD5K3N46AR2 · pith_short_8: 4XSTAZD5

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/4XSTAZD5K3N46AR2ERPA2KTZIH \
  | 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: e5e530647d56dbcf023a245e0d2a7941e24f66aaa98edc7aebf2870cd84eaf10

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "284b3e257a0bf497a7687215ceb282031302a27099629319a1250c8d5c7dfe96",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.EP",
    "submitted_at": "2017-01-24T19:10:45Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "bd7e20c1cd53d6d625d2bc2a868626670bee27aa086e83b72ff085d90f1faaaa"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1701.07041",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}