Pith Number

pith:DWXGTFEE

pith:2003:DWXGTFEEBKG3CU5PHZV7FEAIGW

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The Selection of Tenured Astronomers in France

France), Gary A. Mamon (IAP, Paris

arxiv:astro-ph/0303552 v4 · 2003-03-25 · astro-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{DWXGTFEEBKG3CU5PHZV7FEAIGW}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

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	2026-05-18T01:21:56.877740Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

1dae6994840a8db153af3e6bf29008359200f5fcbe450580a6bf3590bff901dc

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/0303552 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/0303552v4 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/0303552 · pith_short_12: DWXGTFEEBKG3 · pith_short_16: DWXGTFEEBKG3CU5P · pith_short_8: DWXGTFEE

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/DWXGTFEEBKG3CU5PHZV7FEAIGW \
  | 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: 1dae6994840a8db153af3e6bf29008359200f5fcbe450580a6bf3590bff901dc

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "338739796f9f611884b1820d824121c38d59fffb70a0cb8fc09d8e6d3c1c0d37",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2003-03-25T15:47:59Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ed8c5f04aa395daf7c177ed4630afadeb6fa333d94f36792582eefbfaaf72c04"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/0303552",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 4
  }
}