Pith Number

pith:HQ7VTKNW

pith:2018:HQ7VTKNWHYJCCCCGQX6OEF4UUN

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Estimating the Mass of the Milky Way Using the Ensemble of Classical Satellite Galaxies

Ekta Patel, Gurtina Besla, Kaisey Mandel, Sangmo Tony Sohn

arxiv:1803.01878 v1 · 2018-03-05 · astro-ph.GA

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{HQ7VTKNWHYJCCCCGQX6OEF4UUN}

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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	2026-05-18T00:17:04.389425Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

3c3f59a9b63e1221084685fce21794a346541a3a0c22a47899a18941e0e8d473

Aliases

arxiv: 1803.01878 · arxiv_version: 1803.01878v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1803.01878 · pith_short_12: HQ7VTKNWHYJC · pith_short_16: HQ7VTKNWHYJCCCCG · pith_short_8: HQ7VTKNW

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/HQ7VTKNWHYJCCCCGQX6OEF4UUN \
  | 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: 3c3f59a9b63e1221084685fce21794a346541a3a0c22a47899a18941e0e8d473

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "6396588e2288eda1d03e2dc2b1949a02f34a972e160751901f2223f0198a8bf3",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2018-03-05T19:02:58Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "8685196f5f8ad7a2be871654e8fb5f31cb89b0e3ef6f4397def227be1abf98cf"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1803.01878",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}