Pith Number

pith:IGV3D27R

pith:2014:IGV3D27RZC7M2Y3M3GWW2RE2RZ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Infrared Tip of the Red Giant Branch and Distances to the Maffei/IC 342 Group

Andrew E. Dolphin, Bradley A. Jacobs, Igor D. Karachentsev, Luca Rizzi, Po-Feng Wu, R. Brent Tully

arxiv:1404.2987 v1 · 2014-04-11 · astro-ph.GA

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{IGV3D27RZC7M2Y3M3GWW2RE2RZ}

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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	2026-05-18T02:46:32.597038Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

41abb1ebf1c8becd636cd9ad6d449a8e5127b4dbeab575b07cfcf1002d8c6c93

Aliases

arxiv: 1404.2987 · arxiv_version: 1404.2987v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1404.2987 · pith_short_12: IGV3D27RZC7M · pith_short_16: IGV3D27RZC7M2Y3M · pith_short_8: IGV3D27R

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/IGV3D27RZC7M2Y3M3GWW2RE2RZ \
  | 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: 41abb1ebf1c8becd636cd9ad6d449a8e5127b4dbeab575b07cfcf1002d8c6c93

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c5a45768a144871e21018a3eefbc9c6d207533cbef0dc2a0dd942ee6571af5a0",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2014-04-11T02:40:36Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d818e976007dfea5c84ebc9633d0cca0b86b1c97f4277cb00626bf16ec6c5b57"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1404.2987",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}