Pith Number

pith:D4J7NRCB

pith:2016:D4J7NRCBKSSEIZPXSQDVE43AIW

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Bayesian Mass Estimates of the Milky Way: including measurement uncertainties with hierarchical Bayes

Aaron Springford, Gwendolyn Eadie, William Harris

arxiv:1609.06304 v3 · 2016-09-20 · astro-ph.GA

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{D4J7NRCBKSSEIZPXSQDVE43AIW}

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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	2026-05-18T00:51:46.184683Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

1f13f6c44154a44465f79407527360458188598eb7c431ad041f976af43ce421

Aliases

arxiv: 1609.06304 · arxiv_version: 1609.06304v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1609.06304 · pith_short_12: D4J7NRCBKSSE · pith_short_16: D4J7NRCBKSSEIZPX · pith_short_8: D4J7NRCB

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/D4J7NRCBKSSEIZPXSQDVE43AIW \
  | 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: 1f13f6c44154a44465f79407527360458188598eb7c431ad041f976af43ce421

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "1234d3af5697f3f6af6839a35eb2e6c678366a1c94f4716d24b55f97139f48cc",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2016-09-20T19:43:52Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ebd020b7ab5345b7aad680518ee8549b5f309aded26922131fd3f441bbf28df6"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1609.06304",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}