Pith Number

pith:EXZXKSKM

pith:2016:EXZXKSKMLH36O5F6YD5GWFNFHZ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Is the Dark Halo of the Milky Way Prolate?

A.A. Williams (Cambridge), A. Bowden (Cambridge), N.W. Evans (Cambridge)

arxiv:1604.06885 v1 · 2016-04-23 · astro-ph.GA

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{EXZXKSKMLH36O5F6YD5GWFNFHZ}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T01:13:47.606463Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

25f375494c59f7e774bec0fa6b15a53e4249d9dd1311a4f2d6c7a4d3bfd6ad41

Aliases

arxiv: 1604.06885 · arxiv_version: 1604.06885v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1604.06885 · pith_short_12: EXZXKSKMLH36 · pith_short_16: EXZXKSKMLH36O5F6 · pith_short_8: EXZXKSKM

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/EXZXKSKMLH36O5F6YD5GWFNFHZ \
  | 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: 25f375494c59f7e774bec0fa6b15a53e4249d9dd1311a4f2d6c7a4d3bfd6ad41

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "2ebee921a9fd9f3ed32a34af39c1a040b5a380352a0d33aa58360448892de0ff",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2016-04-23T09:48:18Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "02a18a69c19b5a9cada35d4c0bb87ca52f2b1a98cd733bdd5584177f26fd8238"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1604.06885",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}