Pith Number

pith:BXZEDGNB

pith:2026:BXZEDGNBXZ75F53DVEO3O5LF4R

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Kinematic hints of a nuclear bar in the Milky Way

Arianna Vasini, Francisco Nogueras-Lara, Jason L. Sanders, Karl Fiteni, Marco Donati, Mathias Schultheis, Mattia C. Sormani, Rainer Sch\"odel, Victor P. Debattista, Xingchen Li, Zi-Xuan Feng

arxiv:2605.16105 v1 · 2026-05-15 · astro-ph.GA

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

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{BXZEDGNBXZ75F53DVEO3O5LF4R}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

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	2026-05-20T00:01:52.945909Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0df24199a1be7fd2f763a91db77565e47ff8b947f385f28df74155fd9ea89446

Aliases

arxiv: 2605.16105 · arxiv_version: 2605.16105v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2605.16105 · pith_short_12: BXZEDGNBXZ75 · pith_short_16: BXZEDGNBXZ75F53D · pith_short_8: BXZEDGNB

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/BXZEDGNBXZ75F53DVEO3O5LF4R \
  | 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: 0df24199a1be7fd2f763a91db77565e47ff8b947f385f28df74155fd9ea89446

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "927bf7c2542d8f877eefc227bd5865fd412a1eb3f9141b010e4a717aa0e4642a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2026-05-15T15:55:05Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "2cf5f4ef9808e9eb85e31b6dc7354e1aecfff1dff6f5359c6dc3ef162c6582c2"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2605.16105",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}