Pith Number

pith:57SR4WDE

pith:2017:57SR4WDE3XJ5PAK5NUJSQUN7DR

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Large Synoptic Survey Telescope Galaxies Science Roadmap

Aaron Robotham, Andrea Grazian, Annette M. N. Ferguson, Aprajita Verma, Benne W. Holwerda, Brant E. Robertson, Camille Avestruz, Chris Lintott, Christopher J. Conselice, Dara J. Norman, Emiliano Merlin, Eric Gawiser, Gaspar Galaz, Graham P. Smith, Gregory F. Snyder, Henry C. Ferguson, Idit Zehavi, Ivan Lacerna, J. Anthony Tyson, Jeffrey A. Newman, Jennifer Lotz, Johan H. Knapen, John P. Stott, Jonathan Davies, Jon Loveday, Kirk D. Borne, Lee Armus, L. Felipe Barrientos, Malcom N. Bremer, Manda Banerji, Mark E. Dickinson, Matt J. Jarvis, Mauro Sereno, Members of the LSST Galaxies Science Collaboration, Michael C. Cooper, Nelson Padilla, Nicola R. Napolitano, Norbert Werner, Patricia B. Tissera, Peter Yoachim, Phil Marshall, Rebecca A. A. Bowler, Ricardo Demarco, Roger Davies, Samir Salim, Samuel J. Schmidt, Simon P. Driver, Sugata Kaviraj, Thomas H. Puzia, Vishal Kasliwal

arxiv:1708.01617 v1 · 2017-08-04 · astro-ph.GA · astro-ph.CO · astro-ph.IM

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{57SR4WDE3XJ5PAK5NUJSQUN7DR}

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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	2026-05-18T00:38:35.382749Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

efe51e5864ddd3d7815d6d132851bf1c42c37ba61d575cae346a98549c65a3fc

Aliases

arxiv: 1708.01617 · arxiv_version: 1708.01617v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1708.01617 · pith_short_12: 57SR4WDE3XJ5 · pith_short_16: 57SR4WDE3XJ5PAK5 · pith_short_8: 57SR4WDE

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/57SR4WDE3XJ5PAK5NUJSQUN7DR \
  | 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: efe51e5864ddd3d7815d6d132851bf1c42c37ba61d575cae346a98549c65a3fc

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "6c633e3ae9f6e5e42414949935b7ce6b339ebfc4b67b75231ddbf582e5d67d41",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.CO",
      "astro-ph.IM"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2017-08-04T18:00:00Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "63b4f94653ea7f2776e3a4b8fb61919a1d1384b05381e4017542343f9dc42f74"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1708.01617",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}