Pith Number

pith:A5W4M6IJ

pith:1996:A5W4M6IJ5ZW5NRPPJSL2HB4TE2

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The observed distribution function of peculiar velocities of galaxies

Cambridge MA), India & CfA, Pune, Somak Raychaudhury (IUCAA, William C. Saslaw (NRAO & University of Virginia)

arxiv:astro-ph/9602001 v1 · 1996-02-01 · astro-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{A5W4M6IJ5ZW5NRPPJSL2HB4TE2}

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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	2026-07-04T15:59:34.510289Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

076dc67909ee6dd6c5ef4c97a3879326b1f210cb63fc6a02c72649e2d257c170

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/9602001 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/9602001v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/9602001 · pith_short_12: A5W4M6IJ5ZW5 · pith_short_16: A5W4M6IJ5ZW5NRPP · pith_short_8: A5W4M6IJ

Agent API

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/A5W4M6IJ5ZW5NRPPJSL2HB4TE2 \
  | 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: 076dc67909ee6dd6c5ef4c97a3879326b1f210cb63fc6a02c72649e2d257c170

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "1c33b7b73cc4f14ff2f3a315116bb6b810a78844ca551d2e97b4abadfb46fb93",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1996-02-01T12:24:12Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d283dbb8d6a84381bfc5b33d6969b85284ee69426a5f9ab14da12578ef13240b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/9602001",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}