Pith Number

pith:5PC2TPAW

pith:2016:5PC2TPAWX6L2MCBBH3FOPYUPGH

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Sizing Up the Milky Way: A Bayesian Mixture Model Meta-Analysis of Photometric Scale Length Measurements

Jeffrey A. Newman, Timothy C. Licquia

arxiv:1607.05281 v2 · 2016-07-18 · astro-ph.GA

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{5PC2TPAWX6L2MCBBH3FOPYUPGH}

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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	2026-05-18T01:00:05.608856Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ebc5a9bc16bf97a608213ecae7e28f31ed42d2c223bdd87374e2386e34ced1d8

Aliases

arxiv: 1607.05281 · arxiv_version: 1607.05281v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1607.05281 · pith_short_12: 5PC2TPAWX6L2 · pith_short_16: 5PC2TPAWX6L2MCBB · pith_short_8: 5PC2TPAW

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/5PC2TPAWX6L2MCBBH3FOPYUPGH \
  | 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: ebc5a9bc16bf97a608213ecae7e28f31ed42d2c223bdd87374e2386e34ced1d8

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "445bb3b71746c609c7fb509166e4bcb9244b72f68864bbf365f8fcd5b90e1708",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2016-07-18T20:00:02Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "43c2431b048947376e3c1c0336da69112be60edacbee9356159c7d6471fce4cc"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1607.05281",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}