Pith Number

pith:AVLTWODZ

pith:2008:AVLTWODZ5F4P2NBKAAVQJMGVJT

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Are the red halos of galaxies made of low-mass stars? Constraints from subdwarf star counts in the Milky Way halo

C. Flynn, E. Zackrisson

arxiv:0809.2991 v1 · 2008-09-17 · astro-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{AVLTWODZ5F4P2NBKAAVQJMGVJT}

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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	2026-07-04T17:12:46.314228Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

05573b3879e978fd342a002b04b0d54cf4fc7056a96c83634f4db93193e631af

Aliases

arxiv: 0809.2991 · arxiv_version: 0809.2991v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.0809.2991 · pith_short_12: AVLTWODZ5F4P · pith_short_16: AVLTWODZ5F4P2NBK · pith_short_8: AVLTWODZ

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/AVLTWODZ5F4P2NBKAAVQJMGVJT \
  | 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: 05573b3879e978fd342a002b04b0d54cf4fc7056a96c83634f4db93193e631af

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "70bd97e9bb23ee3c7687529efc3f3ca2fb964ecc9d5919a9b7776c8315476651",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2008-09-17T20:00:06Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "def2bf0f4f70e94cee84abe2c306d39a0aa099250c8be4444c38635a118df8c4"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "0809.2991",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}