Pith Number

pith:EK56QXLA

pith:2013:EK56QXLA3WBOEV4VZ6E3UPPF6R

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Analysing surveys of our Galaxy -- II. Determining the potential

James J. Binney, Paul J. McMillan

arxiv:1303.5660 v3 · 2013-03-22 · astro-ph.GA

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{EK56QXLA3WBOEV4VZ6E3UPPF6R}

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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	2026-05-18T01:50:59.470630Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

22bbe85d60dd82e25795cf89ba3de5f441797b9bed61f868c06b3f95c992f8e9

Aliases

arxiv: 1303.5660 · arxiv_version: 1303.5660v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1303.5660 · pith_short_12: EK56QXLA3WBO · pith_short_16: EK56QXLA3WBOEV4V · pith_short_8: EK56QXLA

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/EK56QXLA3WBOEV4VZ6E3UPPF6R \
  | 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: 22bbe85d60dd82e25795cf89ba3de5f441797b9bed61f868c06b3f95c992f8e9

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "860e2f56674a7370f55898cfe5eeb79acbf4195d23ffc71f0b1b543bf0ff631d",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2013-03-22T16:25:09Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "541e4da86887c7d8f8c5a1c6aa410226dfabb8808c819bc38cd27b45a1845556"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1303.5660",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}