Pith Number

pith:HGVIT57K

pith:2001:HGVIT57KD72YC7YEQHJUXQRJMN

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The Distance to the Magellanic Clouds

Bohdan Paczynski

arxiv:astro-ph/0104182 v2 · 2001-04-10 · astro-ph

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Geometrical Distances of Extragalactic Binaries through Spectroastrometry

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First computed	2026-07-04T14:11:08.164290Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

39aa89f7ea1ff5817f0481d34bc229634ac23d62b1ff3b8e7808bc906835a1cb

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/0104182 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/0104182v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/0104182 · pith_short_12: HGVIT57KD72Y · pith_short_16: HGVIT57KD72YC7YE · pith_short_8: HGVIT57K

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/HGVIT57KD72YC7YEQHJUXQRJMN \
  | 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: 39aa89f7ea1ff5817f0481d34bc229634ac23d62b1ff3b8e7808bc906835a1cb

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "97d54996e3ee8bb0800fee6ee6737772a19d6665807b9be30a9f596b0c9c760d",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2001-04-10T20:11:56Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "50b294f4298ecbde15444e88c9d9bf4445215138ccd22343346a35654a1064f8"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/0104182",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}