Pith Number

pith:FTGKLWEM

pith:1995:FTGKLWEMW3SXZBOXLXAFV2WGKU

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

On the deprojection of the Galactic bulge

CH), James Binney (Dpt.Theoret.Phys., Ortwin Gerhard (Astron.Inst, Oxford, UK), Univ.Basel

arxiv:astro-ph/9508115 v1 · 1995-08-25 · astro-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{FTGKLWEMW3SXZBOXLXAFV2WGKU}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T01:40:22.830571Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

2ccca5d88cb6e57c85d75dc05aeac6553d92785bf7d85b76ddd500e86a03b23a

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/9508115 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/9508115v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/9508115 · pith_short_12: FTGKLWEMW3SX · pith_short_16: FTGKLWEMW3SXZBOX · pith_short_8: FTGKLWEM

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/FTGKLWEMW3SXZBOXLXAFV2WGKU \
  | 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: 2ccca5d88cb6e57c85d75dc05aeac6553d92785bf7d85b76ddd500e86a03b23a

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f4cb6a99c88474a39ad57d8b059c1f9d512e9b8d68225be243a45b4950a90d4a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1995-08-25T08:38:43Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "04efb5088963b7dea488d18a7c943b2ed1c327495fc25071795ea879472f08c1"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/9508115",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}