Pith Number

pith:6N42X7PC

pith:2012:6N42X7PCOUL44EKA56YCIDCOGO

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Metallicity Evolution of Damped Lyman-alpha Systems out to z~5

Alexander J. Mendez, Arthur M. Wolfe, J. Xavier Prochaska, Marcel Neeleman, Marc Rafelski

arxiv:1205.5047 v1 · 2012-05-22 · astro-ph.CO · astro-ph.GA

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\pithnumber{6N42X7PCOUL44EKA56YCIDCOGO}

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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	2026-05-18T03:49:10.136152Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

f379abfde27517ce1140efb0240c4e33aab8db3790f41c59c59692bcf46e05b5

Aliases

arxiv: 1205.5047 · arxiv_version: 1205.5047v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1205.5047 · pith_short_12: 6N42X7PCOUL4 · pith_short_16: 6N42X7PCOUL44EKA · pith_short_8: 6N42X7PC

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/6N42X7PCOUL44EKA56YCIDCOGO \
  | 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: f379abfde27517ce1140efb0240c4e33aab8db3790f41c59c59692bcf46e05b5

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "164b0e89fa2854b4aa74902604f80364bc216f5b50222efb7f7767c0cc7c01eb",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.GA"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.CO",
    "submitted_at": "2012-05-22T20:28:43Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "7b48331d5e4ad4b07ed5af0a4b4113d2a27d5ea91410434009d72d71a297ea3f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1205.5047",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}