Pith Number

pith:AGCT4AK4

pith:2007:AGCT4AK4XI4XNEWN7FHQAWH3S5

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Are the Magellanic Clouds on their First Passage about the Milky Way?

(2) KICP, 3, (3) Enrico Fermi Institute, 4), (4) Spitzer Fellow, (5) STScI), Brant Robertson (2, Gurtina Besla (1), Lars Hernquist (1), Nitya Kallivayalil (1), Roeland P. van der Marel (5) & Charles Alcock (1) ((1) Harvard-Smithsonian CfA, T.J. Cox (1)

arxiv:astro-ph/0703196 v1 · 2007-03-08 · astro-ph

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\pithnumber{AGCT4AK4XI4XNEWN7FHQAWH3S5}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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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1 paper in Pith

The VMC survey -- LV. The coherent expansion of the SMC

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-04T15:28:41.178624Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

01853e015cba397692cdf94f0058fb97611e7657dc5876ab41bdfe926096d3ce

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/0703196 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/0703196v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/0703196 · pith_short_12: AGCT4AK4XI4X · pith_short_16: AGCT4AK4XI4XNEWN · pith_short_8: AGCT4AK4

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/AGCT4AK4XI4XNEWN7FHQAWH3S5 \
  | 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: 01853e015cba397692cdf94f0058fb97611e7657dc5876ab41bdfe926096d3ce

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "45a47784d98db7d4a348c0ea1a0f0e49a781f03d96785cbd547a27091d7f1773",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2007-03-08T22:16:54Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "09efdc10f157884f6b5c11ad834d2713905f37fa6c2bca1f41d576e591de2ca6"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/0703196",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}