Pith Number

pith:EXZCIUB2

pith:2016:EXZCIUB2MHHSRFGUWLSBZCHLG5

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The mass distribution and gravitational potential of the Milky Way

Paul J. McMillan

arxiv:1608.00971 v3 · 2016-08-02 · astro-ph.GA

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29 papers in Pith

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:55:45.676346Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

25f224503a61cf2894d4b2e41c88eb377bcd30bb70d1917f4db266a87c566233

Aliases

arxiv: 1608.00971 · arxiv_version: 1608.00971v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1608.00971 · pith_short_12: EXZCIUB2MHHS · pith_short_16: EXZCIUB2MHHSRFGU · pith_short_8: EXZCIUB2

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/EXZCIUB2MHHSRFGUWLSBZCHLG5 \
  | 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: 25f224503a61cf2894d4b2e41c88eb377bcd30bb70d1917f4db266a87c566233

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "4e64946c63b3e90eca93a40b3e55d7da5709a6a614751bdb7a65b380e981b008",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2016-08-02T20:00:00Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "7d80d18e111d1314941aded63b1695ba2fb478b8fa837e228da596d091a1df60"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1608.00971",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}