Pith Number

pith:CUZ2A4ZI

pith:2017:CUZ2A4ZIRYFVV56DV5A73PROHU

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Diffuse Ionized Gas in the Milky Way Disk

Dana S. Balser, L. D. Anderson, Matteo Luisi, T. M. Bania, Trey V. Wenger

arxiv:1709.09232 v1 · 2017-09-26 · astro-ph.GA

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{CUZ2A4ZIRYFVV56DV5A73PROHU}

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Record completeness

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4 Citations open

5 Replications 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	2026-05-18T00:30:41.039447Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

1533a073288e0b5af7c3af41fdbe2e3d2c80ffe01f43656bd2e5e7150b7858f4

Aliases

arxiv: 1709.09232 · arxiv_version: 1709.09232v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1709.09232 · pith_short_12: CUZ2A4ZIRYFV · pith_short_16: CUZ2A4ZIRYFVV56D · pith_short_8: CUZ2A4ZI

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/CUZ2A4ZIRYFVV56DV5A73PROHU \
  | 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: 1533a073288e0b5af7c3af41fdbe2e3d2c80ffe01f43656bd2e5e7150b7858f4

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d65636759950b816ceeaf52be64a74bd14ab31a79e2f593cc8bd7786ffb3d602",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2017-09-26T19:32:01Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "cac726f4308f857215e0e90cc1748b0ba6cb0dc732cb9da52f2ad6baaed21eb4"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1709.09232",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}