Pith Number

pith:CJOAYA2L

pith:2018:CJOAYA2LRFIZKLXH3JZNTVRF5Z

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The Mira-based distance to the Galactic centre

David M. Nataf, Luca Casagrande, Nadia Zakamska, Peter R. Wood, Wenzer Qin

arxiv:1808.01294 v1 · 2018-08-03 · astro-ph.SR · astro-ph.GA

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{CJOAYA2LRFIZKLXH3JZNTVRF5Z}

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4 Citations 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	2026-05-18T00:05:13.763372Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

125c0c034b8951952ee7da72d9d625ee4d682101ad2e2a9a512f66595c2f5a3c

Aliases

arxiv: 1808.01294 · arxiv_version: 1808.01294v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1808.01294 · pith_short_12: CJOAYA2LRFIZ · pith_short_16: CJOAYA2LRFIZKLXH · pith_short_8: CJOAYA2L

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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/CJOAYA2LRFIZKLXH3JZNTVRF5Z \
  | 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: 125c0c034b8951952ee7da72d9d625ee4d682101ad2e2a9a512f66595c2f5a3c

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c9b650f2d4084e53f193252ffb8fe0ba16c1506b359073f349b596ea86d974d8",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.GA"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.SR",
    "submitted_at": "2018-08-03T18:06:10Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e6e0135777f78e83f78c89882ee4669daf0d5d516147bd6a5a8bb5475bac248c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1808.01294",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}