Pith Number

pith:6WMNMAXL

pith:2011:6WMNMAXLCVUSHDRKEESIAF42A6

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

MAD about the Large Magellanic Cloud: preparing for the era of Extremely Large Telescopes

A. D. Mackey, E. Diolaiti, E. Tolstoy, E. Valenti, G. Fiorentino, M. Cignoni

arxiv:1109.0161 v1 · 2011-09-01 · astro-ph.IM · astro-ph.GA

Open paper page JSON Open Graph Bundle Merged state Verified badge What is a Pith Number?

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{6WMNMAXLCVUSHDRKEESIAF42A6}

Prints a linked badge after your title and injects PDF metadata. Compiles on arXiv. Learn more · Embed verified badge

Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

2 Internet Archive

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	2026-05-18T02:00:43.377550Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

f598d602eb1569238e2a212480179a079bb52ba18c7448c451c2d9fa516d15fe

Aliases

arxiv: 1109.0161 · arxiv_version: 1109.0161v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1109.0161 · pith_short_12: 6WMNMAXLCVUS · pith_short_16: 6WMNMAXLCVUSHDRK · pith_short_8: 6WMNMAXL

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/6WMNMAXLCVUSHDRKEESIAF42A6 \
  | 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: f598d602eb1569238e2a212480179a079bb52ba18c7448c451c2d9fa516d15fe

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "db189e2606183bc3122bac59a4c16f281fbe6f84c87fd3a9747fbc5f48322853",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.GA"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.IM",
    "submitted_at": "2011-09-01T11:57:17Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "0af16a4d528183a64f7c90c638d83f86b9799447e9b18f36f6213f76c55b9163"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1109.0161",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}