Pith Number

pith:I5BZAM6T

pith:2015:I5BZAM6TEDFFOIHG3LACE6ZMHM

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The distribution function of the Galaxy's dark halo

James Binney, Tilmann Piffl

arxiv:1509.06877 v1 · 2015-09-23 · astro-ph.GA

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{I5BZAM6TEDFFOIHG3LACE6ZMHM}

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Record completeness

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

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	2026-05-18T01:28:45.737468Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

47439033d320ca5720e6dac0227b2c3b18011aca71a7a344ca98d11226a3be3e

Aliases

arxiv: 1509.06877 · arxiv_version: 1509.06877v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1509.06877 · pith_short_12: I5BZAM6TEDFF · pith_short_16: I5BZAM6TEDFFOIHG · pith_short_8: I5BZAM6T

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/I5BZAM6TEDFFOIHG3LACE6ZMHM \
  | 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: 47439033d320ca5720e6dac0227b2c3b18011aca71a7a344ca98d11226a3be3e

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "44a6422a4bd607b081d80953ffeb9678c993355a8d12c141150fc1935289892c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2015-09-23T08:22:28Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "bfec8b0a339a4b0f0318880c9a8069328916aabab989a0dd4f32c2cc9309855d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1509.06877",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}