Pith Number

pith:FR4OKVU6

pith:2013:FR4OKVU6R3ZHGZIYP72CSWFP5X

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Hunting The Most Distant Stars in the Milky Way: Methods and Initial Results

Andrew A. West, Beth Willman, Jay Strader, John J. Bochanski, Laura Chomiuk

arxiv:1310.7565 v2 · 2013-10-28 · astro-ph.GA

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{FR4OKVU6R3ZHGZIYP72CSWFP5X}

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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	2026-05-18T01:46:48.424333Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

2c78e5569e8ef27365187ff42958afedd28bad8ce6cebe09aec3274747c4f0bd

Aliases

arxiv: 1310.7565 · arxiv_version: 1310.7565v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1310.7565 · pith_short_12: FR4OKVU6R3ZH · pith_short_16: FR4OKVU6R3ZHGZIY · pith_short_8: FR4OKVU6

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/FR4OKVU6R3ZHGZIYP72CSWFP5X \
  | 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: 2c78e5569e8ef27365187ff42958afedd28bad8ce6cebe09aec3274747c4f0bd

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c5aee55e5b9eaca7c6516839f04689185b8f404c816767c7328fca512e6bc02d",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2013-10-28T19:59:59Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "7f863febda052dd927ba7d559be6b3ea75bd02b81737007bd965485c61a4729f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1310.7565",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}