Pith Number

pith:5JCYJKCI

pith:2018:5JCYJKCINOSSC3LT5SJE4E3ZXG

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Weighing the two stellar components of the Galactic Bulge

E. Valenti, M. Zoccali, O.A. Gonzalez

arxiv:1807.06377 v1 · 2018-07-17 · astro-ph.GA

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{5JCYJKCINOSSC3LT5SJE4E3ZXG}

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:02:33.779181Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ea4584a8486ba5216d73ec924e1379b993a6b9187adee0d8ae55bbce22556f2d

Aliases

arxiv: 1807.06377 · arxiv_version: 1807.06377v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1807.06377 · pith_short_12: 5JCYJKCINOSS · pith_short_16: 5JCYJKCINOSSC3LT · pith_short_8: 5JCYJKCI

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/5JCYJKCINOSSC3LT5SJE4E3ZXG \
  | 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: ea4584a8486ba5216d73ec924e1379b993a6b9187adee0d8ae55bbce22556f2d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "8b7509425c44c3bec8fc5a641740479abfa67ad6cf7e4159d6a5fe873a24be0e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2018-07-17T12:20:23Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "a735fbd85cc52ce19e57d6ea3dd2ecb26cf11a3e56592ca25a298753693011ae"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1807.06377",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}