Pith Number

pith:DPZ7ZZMJ

pith:2017:DPZ7ZZMJWYZCUAJRQVWAVAODMU

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Galactic Archeology with RAVE and TGAS

Matthias Steinmetz, the RAVE Collaboration

arxiv:1710.08559 v1 · 2017-10-24 · astro-ph.GA

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{DPZ7ZZMJWYZCUAJRQVWAVAODMU}

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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	2026-05-18T00:07:43.546360Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

1bf3fce589b6322a0131856c0a81c36510c8e68ab5e0590dc5d8935b152022fb

Aliases

arxiv: 1710.08559 · arxiv_version: 1710.08559v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1710.08559 · pith_short_12: DPZ7ZZMJWYZC · pith_short_16: DPZ7ZZMJWYZCUAJR · pith_short_8: DPZ7ZZMJ

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/DPZ7ZZMJWYZCUAJRQVWAVAODMU \
  | 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: 1bf3fce589b6322a0131856c0a81c36510c8e68ab5e0590dc5d8935b152022fb

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "2d78dd808579487d65c84acf3450d5a6126f368e98735bde0930c8c85e891bfb",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2017-10-24T00:37:30Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "c03523ef886c4b8e6b7ee21f67b0904c2db843a690e8d622326101d2f217c0e2"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1710.08559",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}