Pith Number

pith:BQGTJNRP

pith:2014:BQGTJNRPD3SSDEHYQHBKMXJVWD

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Trigonometric Parallaxes of Star Forming Regions in the Scutum Spiral Arm

A. Brunthaler, A. Sanna, B. Zhang, K. Immer, K. M. Menten, M. J. Reid, M. Sato, T. M. Dame, Y. W. Wu

arxiv:1408.0513 v1 · 2014-08-03 · astro-ph.GA

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\pithnumber{BQGTJNRPD3SSDEHYQHBKMXJVWD}

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First computed	2026-05-18T01:42:25.932193Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0c0d34b62f1ee52190f881c2a65d35b0e1423766b85db72ad8bffe71736918d8

Aliases

arxiv: 1408.0513 · arxiv_version: 1408.0513v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1408.0513 · pith_short_12: BQGTJNRPD3SS · pith_short_16: BQGTJNRPD3SSDEHY · pith_short_8: BQGTJNRP

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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/BQGTJNRPD3SSDEHYQHBKMXJVWD \
  | 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: 0c0d34b62f1ee52190f881c2a65d35b0e1423766b85db72ad8bffe71736918d8

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "167ca42c62d2c5f713fe5cd3ef048f4ec42245a94b47b428b16aa61b5a9f5627",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2014-08-03T17:12:33Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "daefae25b1204fbd83acaaa6eccd52c9362ed85e0e9f2b2ed7361e5f428d5d6f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1408.0513",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}