Pith Number

pith:ILRCGQ3P

pith:1996:ILRCGQ3PRB4MJPNKP2H5WI2FII

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Globular Clusters in the Inner Regions of NGC5128 (Cen A)

D. Minniti, G. Meylan, M. V. Alonso, P. Goudfrooij, P. Jablonka

arxiv:astro-ph/9604017 v1 · 1996-04-02 · astro-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ILRCGQ3PRB4MJPNKP2H5WI2FII}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

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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	2026-07-04T15:59:37.478129Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

42e223436f8878c4bdaa7e8fdb234542296a0be18ee15e9025dd409874407708

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/9604017 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/9604017v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/9604017 · pith_short_12: ILRCGQ3PRB4M · pith_short_16: ILRCGQ3PRB4MJPNK · pith_short_8: ILRCGQ3P

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/ILRCGQ3PRB4MJPNKP2H5WI2FII \
  | 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: 42e223436f8878c4bdaa7e8fdb234542296a0be18ee15e9025dd409874407708

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d40a84c58d229155c1fbae9a06b6fbbaa62bbe7067638974e3f2931a10adcf3a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1996-04-02T04:23:12Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "2dc9d2534da3b5311794725dd5c230a262c1f3d9d7c28f51d72b8fbbd2213286"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/9604017",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}