Pith Number

pith:6JVNZPGI

pith:1996:6JVNZPGIZEAVG5RCJF6XTSPWBU

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Kinematics and Metallicities of Globular Clusters in M104

D.A. Hanes (Queen's Univ), D. Carter (RGO), J.J. Kavelaars (Queen's Univ), K.M. Ashman (Kansas), R.M. Sharples (Durham), S.E. Zepf (Berkeley), T.J. Bridges (RGO)

arxiv:astro-ph/9609176 v1 · 1996-09-25 · astro-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{6JVNZPGIZEAVG5RCJF6XTSPWBU}

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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	2026-05-18T01:07:40.758056Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

f26adcbcc8c901537622497d79c9f60d3be531f3586afc595c8f82024e12cb83

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/9609176 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/9609176v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/9609176 · pith_short_12: 6JVNZPGIZEAV · pith_short_16: 6JVNZPGIZEAVG5RC · pith_short_8: 6JVNZPGI

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/6JVNZPGIZEAVG5RCJF6XTSPWBU \
  | 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: f26adcbcc8c901537622497d79c9f60d3be531f3586afc595c8f82024e12cb83

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "4a0a53acee1ceb66f7fcce7fe986445a20c7094241d4d60dcbc71fb98e09e151",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1996-09-25T16:07:02Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d6d03164af79951c433305b4f4fde0503a41f7ac8a3dfb82d816b272c8646fc0"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/9609176",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}