Pith Number

pith:FXTB5WMH

pith:1994:FXTB5WMHXMOU4GBXV2C2IYMDFK

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Microlensing Events of the LMC are Better Explained by Stars within the LMC Than by Machos

Kailash C. Sahu

arxiv:astro-ph/9408047 v1 · 1994-08-15 · astro-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{FXTB5WMHXMOU4GBXV2C2IYMDFK}

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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	2026-07-04T15:56:07.847271Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

2de61ed987bb1d4e1837ae85a461832a8cb1b28e3289f22cbc5b567801b73f89

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/9408047 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/9408047v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/9408047 · pith_short_12: FXTB5WMHXMOU · pith_short_16: FXTB5WMHXMOU4GBX · pith_short_8: FXTB5WMH

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/FXTB5WMHXMOU4GBXV2C2IYMDFK \
  | 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: 2de61ed987bb1d4e1837ae85a461832a8cb1b28e3289f22cbc5b567801b73f89

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c67aa6bfa1256666f01e13407072533698d2a8623b35f3c3f43f68f5685d6ffc",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1994-08-15T20:20:34Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "fb6902b25d089fdf97c9490ef496fb6f2e7a22659269bc94f87a4ee6eb98055d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/9408047",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}