Pith Number

pith:AOFBKAI6

pith:2005:AOFBKAI6BLS5BLYOY3R6VHHRIM

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The Milky Way Tomography with SDSS: I. Stellar Number Density Distribution

Alyson Brooks, Atsuko Nitta, Branimir Sesar, Constance M. Rockosi, Dan Long, David Schlegel, Donald G. York, Donald Schneider, Douglas Finkbeiner, Eric H. Neilsen, Gillian R. Knapp, Howard J. Brewington, James E. Gunn, J. Brinkmann, J.C. Barentine, Jr., Jurek Krzesinski, Mario Juric, Masataka Fukugita, Michael Harvanek, Nicholas Bond, Nikhil Padmanabhan, Robert H. Lupton, S.J. Kleinman, Stephanie A. Snedden, Takahiro Sumi, Zeljko Ivezic

arxiv:astro-ph/0510520 v2 · 2005-10-18 · astro-ph

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

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{AOFBKAI6BLS5BLYOY3R6VHHRIM}

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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	2026-05-18T03:47:43.324124Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

038a15011e0ae5d0af0ec6e3ea9cf14330671e75dd6b565e0e05424d92884115

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/0510520 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/0510520v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/0510520 · pith_short_12: AOFBKAI6BLS5 · pith_short_16: AOFBKAI6BLS5BLYO · pith_short_8: AOFBKAI6

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/AOFBKAI6BLS5BLYOY3R6VHHRIM \
  | 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: 038a15011e0ae5d0af0ec6e3ea9cf14330671e75dd6b565e0e05424d92884115

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "23496d064a146642555f8e40b15bf09f1437c70e3a52e2a8fed7cce12561813a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2005-10-18T13:25:48Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "2d4c86d66bef9d13f56e0d383d7d0695a99a59de2a0b9e8e3b06c93f08c6da80"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/0510520",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}