Pith Number

pith:C5I5JTOF

pith:2017:C5I5JTOFELLJA5CWV5DMEIDGIN

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The masses and metallicities of stellar haloes reflect galactic merger histories

Eric Bell, Richard D'Souza

arxiv:1705.08442 v2 · 2017-05-23 · astro-ph.GA

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{C5I5JTOFELLJA5CWV5DMEIDGIN}

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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	2026-05-18T00:26:29.958256Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

1751d4cdc522d6907456af46c22066437abe75a0f7d6f14ce925b6db26bd46d1

Aliases

arxiv: 1705.08442 · arxiv_version: 1705.08442v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1705.08442 · pith_short_12: C5I5JTOFELLJ · pith_short_16: C5I5JTOFELLJA5CW · pith_short_8: C5I5JTOF

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/C5I5JTOFELLJA5CWV5DMEIDGIN \
  | 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: 1751d4cdc522d6907456af46c22066437abe75a0f7d6f14ce925b6db26bd46d1

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "fbef9ff8af77ca5529c6a69564bced7c5a52689b617e58dc08def2218b32f5c4",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2017-05-23T17:57:33Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "a2f19ee73769f0549d7d9bfad7a36510f1e3a4cf0282b90262365211f5737a61"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1705.08442",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}