Pith Number

pith:5U3QVZBT

pith:2011:5U3QVZBTXVHFA3IKURPCMUZXRD

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A new LMC K-band distance from precision measurements of nearby red clump stars

C. D. Laney, G. Pietrzynski, M. D. Joner

arxiv:1109.4800 v1 · 2011-09-22 · astro-ph.SR · astro-ph.CO

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{5U3QVZBTXVHFA3IKURPCMUZXRD}

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T02:00:26.645489Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ed370ae433bd4e506d0aa45e26533788e21ed468c83ce6e7426c5b5796ac5054

Aliases

arxiv: 1109.4800 · arxiv_version: 1109.4800v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1109.4800 · pith_short_12: 5U3QVZBTXVHF · pith_short_16: 5U3QVZBTXVHFA3IK · pith_short_8: 5U3QVZBT

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/5U3QVZBTXVHFA3IKURPCMUZXRD \
  | 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: ed370ae433bd4e506d0aa45e26533788e21ed468c83ce6e7426c5b5796ac5054

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "2a3f81f6d1a36e8bddaffc19bdc54fa02edb08d4b5fe4b7b3aa7662fbd92bc85",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.CO"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.SR",
    "submitted_at": "2011-09-22T13:17:42Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ade66282ffa23561988e328efca2c75642a27097675da7b21720e13d6d676323"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1109.4800",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}