Pith Number

pith:ACIO7EWN

pith:2015:ACIO7EWNXVO5IVAHBMHYSA6PDQ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Extended distribution functions for our Galaxy

James Binney, Jason L. Sanders

arxiv:1501.02227 v2 · 2015-01-09 · astro-ph.GA

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ACIO7EWNXVO5IVAHBMHYSA6PDQ}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T01:59:53.364488Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0090ef92cdbd5dd454070b0f8903cf1c38cce95520679d60cf16bcefaffb1268

Aliases

arxiv: 1501.02227 · arxiv_version: 1501.02227v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1501.02227 · pith_short_12: ACIO7EWNXVO5 · pith_short_16: ACIO7EWNXVO5IVAH · pith_short_8: ACIO7EWN

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/ACIO7EWNXVO5IVAHBMHYSA6PDQ \
  | 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: 0090ef92cdbd5dd454070b0f8903cf1c38cce95520679d60cf16bcefaffb1268

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "8eb2c9fdf4efcdd27be4ffbaa0cf2b03ffe427ea3c97c0c3a5735d2b21939641",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2015-01-09T18:50:11Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "645190701a193b3528ecdf19578ac19090d7861dc2986c54954a2a9007905851"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1501.02227",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}