Pith Number

pith:ERXBBYNE

pith:2016:ERXBBYNEHPQX6NDJSI7K7F2ZVM

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The spectroscopic indistinguishability of red giant branch and red clump stars

Keith Hawkins, Thomas Masseron

arxiv:1612.05061 v1 · 2016-12-15 · astro-ph.SR

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ERXBBYNEHPQX6NDJSI7K7F2ZVM}

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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	2026-05-18T00:54:53.508858Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

246e10e1a43be17f3469923eaf9759ab1e4d3ee9cac1341b6b44ceaf639533a1

Aliases

arxiv: 1612.05061 · arxiv_version: 1612.05061v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1612.05061 · pith_short_12: ERXBBYNEHPQX · pith_short_16: ERXBBYNEHPQX6NDJ · pith_short_8: ERXBBYNE

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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/ERXBBYNEHPQX6NDJSI7K7F2ZVM \
  | 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: 246e10e1a43be17f3469923eaf9759ab1e4d3ee9cac1341b6b44ceaf639533a1

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f410306882b5b628058aa3b901d1a012e497c8e911750e02917aa87c000c6606",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.SR",
    "submitted_at": "2016-12-15T13:38:11Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "7935c630f71e9626ca63a009092802def102849f6d06b25dd7717cdec81576e0"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1612.05061",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}