Pith Number

pith:5CVRYYEH

pith:1996:5CVRYYEHCBDNTSZERYHLMUB36D

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The photometric structure of the inner Galaxy

(2) Astron.Inst, (3) Princeton Univ. Obs., CH, David Spergel (3) ((1) Dpt.Theoret.Phys., James Binney (1), Ortwin Gerhard (2), Oxford, UK, Univ.Basel, USA)

arxiv:astro-ph/9609066 v1 · 1996-09-09 · astro-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{5CVRYYEHCBDNTSZERYHLMUB36D}

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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	2026-05-18T01:40:19.291942Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e8ab1c60871046d9cb248e0eb6503bf0d8c2d1fd57babd6588f1426c9e8a2aef

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/9609066 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/9609066v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/9609066 · pith_short_12: 5CVRYYEHCBDN · pith_short_16: 5CVRYYEHCBDNTSZE · pith_short_8: 5CVRYYEH

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/5CVRYYEHCBDNTSZERYHLMUB36D \
  | 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: e8ab1c60871046d9cb248e0eb6503bf0d8c2d1fd57babd6588f1426c9e8a2aef

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "455887a875bc40bbc983423fc4367673d620ae51f9c7d4d6942543866f04c0e9",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1996-09-09T07:03:15Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "477790711c21f691d734cfe2c256249b23e1b3d5a071e8d749f74085da487d65"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/9609066",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}