Pith Number

pith:CQK3FWEQ

pith:2010:CQK3FWEQFN36XVZGALIWSGK75S

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Anchoring the Universal Distance Scale via a Wesenheit Template

Arne Henden, Daniel J. Majaess, David G. Turner, David J. Lane, Tom Krajci

arxiv:1007.2300 v2 · 2010-07-14 · astro-ph.GA · astro-ph.CO

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{CQK3FWEQFN36XVZGALIWSGK75S}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T04:39:49.201745Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

1415b2d8902b77ebd72602d169195fecb7e0c9cf4909c366b1388c70597060c7

Aliases

arxiv: 1007.2300 · arxiv_version: 1007.2300v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1007.2300 · pith_short_12: CQK3FWEQFN36 · pith_short_16: CQK3FWEQFN36XVZG · pith_short_8: CQK3FWEQ

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/CQK3FWEQFN36XVZGALIWSGK75S \
  | 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: 1415b2d8902b77ebd72602d169195fecb7e0c9cf4909c366b1388c70597060c7

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "48c82c0de28551a2be63d8ddde116c7d7f5e204d4aa971fb9d591c6f454f5508",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.CO"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2010-07-14T11:29:17Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "731ee73826b6866046af3c8f2e4823d6327fb5f5874b5ce613b75e99b24d55aa"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1007.2300",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}