Pith Number

pith:5LNIF6PT

pith:2014:5LNIF6PTF2DCSYKNEE6Z6LOKSA

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The Distortion of the Cosmic Microwave Background by the Milky Way

Benjamin C. Bromley, Benjamin Czaja

arxiv:1407.5686 v1 · 2014-07-21 · astro-ph.CO

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{5LNIF6PTF2DCSYKNEE6Z6LOKSA}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T01:42:33.312945Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

eada82f9f32e8629614d213d9f2dca901edfa6a85d8ea39c2c026e55fa303ef5

Aliases

arxiv: 1407.5686 · arxiv_version: 1407.5686v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1407.5686 · pith_short_12: 5LNIF6PTF2DC · pith_short_16: 5LNIF6PTF2DCSYKN · pith_short_8: 5LNIF6PT

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/5LNIF6PTF2DCSYKNEE6Z6LOKSA \
  | 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: eada82f9f32e8629614d213d9f2dca901edfa6a85d8ea39c2c026e55fa303ef5

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "cced30031414097d0400f76f9bc10cec01a91f64fe14596b7e06ab50abb6de47",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.CO",
    "submitted_at": "2014-07-21T22:59:23Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "680c212a3dbbbbd35bc761c5fcbab9f90ea6de900070555095946bf1b8da6897"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1407.5686",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}