Pith Number

pith:BCVKF5SR

pith:2012:BCVKF5SR65UFZYCSCXFOJJ7WQL

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The Galaxy Optical Luminosity Function from the AGN and Galaxy Evolution Survey (AGES)

Arjun Dey, Buell T. Jannuzi, Christine Jones, Christopher S. Kochanek, Daniel J. Eisenstein, John Moustakas, Michael J. I. Brown, Nelson Caldwell, Richard J. Cool, Ryan C. Hickox, Stephen S. Murray, William R. Forman

arxiv:1201.2954 v1 · 2012-01-12 · astro-ph.CO

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{BCVKF5SR65UFZYCSCXFOJJ7WQL}

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T01:58:49.391386Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

08aaa2f651f7685ce05215cae4a7f682faca2b6e5d7e79a6f43246ff3dc47320

Aliases

arxiv: 1201.2954 · arxiv_version: 1201.2954v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1201.2954 · pith_short_12: BCVKF5SR65UF · pith_short_16: BCVKF5SR65UFZYCS · pith_short_8: BCVKF5SR

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/BCVKF5SR65UFZYCSCXFOJJ7WQL \
  | 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: 08aaa2f651f7685ce05215cae4a7f682faca2b6e5d7e79a6f43246ff3dc47320

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "147309cda08764dea4c378e977ea7b0cf21cdfaaf56f7ac8ef47abb167725e68",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.CO",
    "submitted_at": "2012-01-12T19:26:10Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "7fbe1f1bbad828b415e7f8409070af32dfb80211aac9dbec04c74dc4cb6610ae"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1201.2954",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}