Pith Number

pith:6IBXE2OI

pith:2015:6IBXE2OITL42E5BQRU4HQWIDMS

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The Milky Way without X: An alternative interpretation of the double red clump in the Galactic bulge

Chul Chung, Seok-Joo Joo, Young-Wook Lee

arxiv:1508.05942 v1 · 2015-08-24 · astro-ph.GA

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{6IBXE2OITL42E5BQRU4HQWIDMS}

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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	2026-05-18T01:31:31.223422Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

f2037269c89af9a274308d387859036492d1dd3b9419456fce111daec2b87c06

Aliases

arxiv: 1508.05942 · arxiv_version: 1508.05942v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1508.05942 · pith_short_12: 6IBXE2OITL42 · pith_short_16: 6IBXE2OITL42E5BQ · pith_short_8: 6IBXE2OI

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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/6IBXE2OITL42E5BQRU4HQWIDMS \
  | 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: f2037269c89af9a274308d387859036492d1dd3b9419456fce111daec2b87c06

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "4c281a8e2b3f95d1ba010240b641b9c70a0db41481072676cb8a49181e3bf784",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2015-08-24T20:04:56Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "97d7678b63b785491639ea82c0fc32eee8111ad256043a7a30d174ad99ee7f71"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1508.05942",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}