Pith Number

pith:A7XCMW27

pith:2014:A7XCMW27QM7FQJHO34OBOLKKBL

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Why the Milky Way's bulge is not only a bar formed from a cold thin disk

A. Gomez, B. Semelin, D. Katz, F. Combes, M. D. Lehnert, M. Haywood, M. Ness, O. N. Snaith, P. Di Matteo

arxiv:1411.1416 v1 · 2014-11-05 · astro-ph.GA

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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	2026-05-18T02:18:21.765028Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

07ee265b5f833e5824eedf1c172d4a0adf4533fbabf2499c1e618b0607fe6ed0

Aliases

arxiv: 1411.1416 · arxiv_version: 1411.1416v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1411.1416 · pith_short_12: A7XCMW27QM7F · pith_short_16: A7XCMW27QM7FQJHO · pith_short_8: A7XCMW27

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/A7XCMW27QM7FQJHO34OBOLKKBL \
  | 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: 07ee265b5f833e5824eedf1c172d4a0adf4533fbabf2499c1e618b0607fe6ed0

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "00c7c4af45090c5a20f49187a9633ede6c501c508ca194a5c3c6edcd91198ca9",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2014-11-05T21:01:08Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "bfe09f8fd9aa35e1efc847bd98fa0a872060c82e7fe94be83d30de78d4a8e900"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1411.1416",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}