Pith Number

pith:5HJWVK77

pith:1996:5HJWVK77CTDLLZ4NHJBYZH2NXE

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Structural and dynamical uncertainties in modeling axisymmetric elliptical galaxies

Aaron J. Romanowsky, Christopher S. Kochanek (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)

arxiv:astro-ph/9609202 v2 · 1996-09-30 · astro-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{5HJWVK77CTDLLZ4NHJBYZH2NXE}

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4 Citations 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	2026-05-18T01:40:19.179836Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e9d36aabff14c6b5e78d3a438c9f4db9102cf58204f2e8e4e82f87609f5ab7ee

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/9609202 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/9609202v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/9609202 · pith_short_12: 5HJWVK77CTDL · pith_short_16: 5HJWVK77CTDLLZ4N · pith_short_8: 5HJWVK77

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/5HJWVK77CTDLLZ4NHJBYZH2NXE \
  | 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: e9d36aabff14c6b5e78d3a438c9f4db9102cf58204f2e8e4e82f87609f5ab7ee

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "40b8e02c4833c537dd20d689c062e01460333b560b54dd153de6e699a4fa36f8",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1996-09-30T19:30:24Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e11864554f07965f2e26eb65b975c54e79eb0283108be331a86d78d73671ba01"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/9609202",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}