Pith Number

pith:6NM2BFJP

pith:2018:6NM2BFJPP6HEXVDDWWJCZWZYHM

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Quantifying the Smoothness of the Stellar Halo: A Link to Accretion History

Lachlan Lancaster, N. Wyn Evans, Vasily Belokurov

arxiv:1804.09181 v1 · 2018-04-24 · astro-ph.GA

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{6NM2BFJPP6HEXVDDWWJCZWZYHM}

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Record completeness

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3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

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	2026-05-17T23:55:58.961151Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

f359a0952f7f8e4bd463b5922cdb383b2c23b1964d035f49a1abb5da95edd42a

Aliases

arxiv: 1804.09181 · arxiv_version: 1804.09181v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1804.09181 · pith_short_12: 6NM2BFJPP6HE · pith_short_16: 6NM2BFJPP6HEXVDD · pith_short_8: 6NM2BFJP

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/6NM2BFJPP6HEXVDDWWJCZWZYHM \
  | 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: f359a0952f7f8e4bd463b5922cdb383b2c23b1964d035f49a1abb5da95edd42a

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d74b8ba7d1c9ed72c902e64d44d7011d6bf10f87b8ec788f58b1c67040cb4b4b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2018-04-24T18:00:00Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "a7fc264caca199f959ad45d45a891b5a0dcc1ebff0c813538ced56b6d1563b2e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1804.09181",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}