Pith Number

pith:B4I6DCRH

pith:2014:B4I6DCRHJPYIXDPUKYLPXZWQWT

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The hunt for the Milky Way's accreted disc

(2) University of Surrey, (3) ETH Zurich, Antonio Pipino (3), Gregory R. Ruchti (1), Justin I. Read (2), Sofia Feltzing (1), Sweden, Switzerland), Thomas Bensby (1) ((1) Lund Observatory, UK

arxiv:1407.4464 v1 · 2014-07-16 · astro-ph.GA

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{B4I6DCRHJPYIXDPUKYLPXZWQWT}

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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	2026-05-18T01:42:36.003532Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0f11e18a274bf08b8df45616fbe6d0b4df59c55bf8ce65b0926057dbb58af9e3

Aliases

arxiv: 1407.4464 · arxiv_version: 1407.4464v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1407.4464 · pith_short_12: B4I6DCRHJPYI · pith_short_16: B4I6DCRHJPYIXDPU · pith_short_8: B4I6DCRH

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/B4I6DCRHJPYIXDPUKYLPXZWQWT \
  | 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: 0f11e18a274bf08b8df45616fbe6d0b4df59c55bf8ce65b0926057dbb58af9e3

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "377d932a2ebed7a732681798342fb234254de59a5e705f4e3920d4a8a44a99cc",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2014-07-16T20:00:24Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "1f8809d4c917516f918a24c741160f830552f0b4deffc19bfc3ac757bd256cb8"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1407.4464",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}