Pith Number

pith:5W3LGOVY

pith:2014:5W3LGOVY44O6T3QOLG33YGH4DA

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Dissecting the Gaseous Halos of z~2 Damped Ly$\alpha$ Systems with Close Quasar Pairs

Adam Myers, Joseph F. Hennawi, J. Xavier Prochaska, Kate H. R. Rubin, Marie Wingyee Lau, Robert A. Simcoe

arxiv:1411.6016 v1 · 2014-11-21 · astro-ph.GA · astro-ph.CO

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{5W3LGOVY44O6T3QOLG33YGH4DA}

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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	2026-05-18T01:35:49.700621Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

edb6b33ab8e71de9ee0e59b7bc18fc1837214c7d6ca4c2e51f4c6b26ef027149

Aliases

arxiv: 1411.6016 · arxiv_version: 1411.6016v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1411.6016 · pith_short_12: 5W3LGOVY44O6 · pith_short_16: 5W3LGOVY44O6T3QO · pith_short_8: 5W3LGOVY

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/5W3LGOVY44O6T3QOLG33YGH4DA \
  | 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: edb6b33ab8e71de9ee0e59b7bc18fc1837214c7d6ca4c2e51f4c6b26ef027149

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "6aa8e636c6415ae163c0873650b4b86df5b395d807486043047e651b06ec600e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.CO"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2014-11-21T21:00:16Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "2c086c5b58f435840e476c5c33e640a2df9a9fd9a97702df452183e06bff9ae7"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1411.6016",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}