Pith Number

pith:5CE3Y2EW

pith:1996:5CE3Y2EWQL4RC2HJIGCR3UGHGA

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The Peculiar Motions of Early-Type Galaxies in Two Distant Regions. IV. The Photometric Fitting Procedure

D. Burstein, E. Bertschinger, G. Baggley, G. Wegner, M. Colless, R.K. McMahan Jr., R.L. Davies, R.P. Saglia

arxiv:astro-ph/9609089 v1 · 1996-09-12 · astro-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{5CE3Y2EWQL4RC2HJIGCR3UGHGA}

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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	2026-05-18T01:07:40.816860Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e889bc689682f91168e941851dd0c7302e508e5603b48ad621af7a857565e931

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/9609089 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/9609089v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/9609089 · pith_short_12: 5CE3Y2EWQL4R · pith_short_16: 5CE3Y2EWQL4RC2HJ · pith_short_8: 5CE3Y2EW

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/5CE3Y2EWQL4RC2HJIGCR3UGHGA \
  | 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: e889bc689682f91168e941851dd0c7302e508e5603b48ad621af7a857565e931

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "bc6ba8ddd58b9d96b5ec2e641debd86dbc6801acbae694bce897f404a1c33db4",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1996-09-12T17:05:27Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "c0e0e80f8f608c136614c8691e24b714a627e532efcead658a1778dbcd47860e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/9609089",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}