Pith Number

pith:INKC62TQ

pith:2018:INKC62TQC2MD7G5PKLIDT2IINL

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The Next Generation Virgo Cluster Survey (NGVS). XVIII. Measurement and Calibration of Surface Brightness Fluctuation Distances for Bright Galaxies in Virgo (and Beyond)

E.W. Peng, G. Raimondo, J.C. Cuillandre, J.C. Roediger, J.P. Blakeslee, L. Ferrarese, Michele Cantiello, P. Cote, P.R. Durrell, S. Gwyn

arxiv:1802.05526 v1 · 2018-02-15 · astro-ph.GA

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\pithnumber{INKC62TQC2MD7G5PKLIDT2IINL}

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:18:51.904763Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

43542f6a7016983f9baf52d039e9086acb30c891b5cbc006c860d2cb4220d41c

Aliases

arxiv: 1802.05526 · arxiv_version: 1802.05526v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1802.05526 · pith_short_12: INKC62TQC2MD · pith_short_16: INKC62TQC2MD7G5P · pith_short_8: INKC62TQ

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/INKC62TQC2MD7G5PKLIDT2IINL \
  | 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: 43542f6a7016983f9baf52d039e9086acb30c891b5cbc006c860d2cb4220d41c

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "669c84915a3fc9878acf2257c94c0c2082e53d5e7eacfd2337080d960ab26243",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2018-02-15T13:38:39Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e695fa82e47f887c766c5b1a7a4c8de70dfacdecca49d673a081c230052a1646"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1802.05526",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}