Pith Number

pith:IVEDWLKO

pith:2012:IVEDWLKONZHG43MZEMLAJUX5HP

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

ARGOS II: The Galactic Bulge Survey

D. Yong, E. Athanassoula, E. Wylie de Boer, G. Lewis, J. Bland Hawthorn, K. Freeman, L. Kiss, M. Asplund, M. Ness, R. Ibata, R. Lane

arxiv:1212.1541 v1 · 2012-12-07 · astro-ph.GA

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{IVEDWLKONZHG43MZEMLAJUX5HP}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

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	2026-05-18T03:38:56.981426Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

45483b2d4e6e4e6e6d99231604d2fd3bf50900377ec58ca96d85eb0790b2a9be

Aliases

arxiv: 1212.1541 · arxiv_version: 1212.1541v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1212.1541 · pith_short_12: IVEDWLKONZHG · pith_short_16: IVEDWLKONZHG43MZ · pith_short_8: IVEDWLKO

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/IVEDWLKONZHG43MZEMLAJUX5HP \
  | 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: 45483b2d4e6e4e6e6d99231604d2fd3bf50900377ec58ca96d85eb0790b2a9be

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "ba84270f9da08eb90b51ecd07bcdb30a2ff3bd38b4bfe654196ef4d5d00916a9",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2012-12-07T06:47:12Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "c1c35707146f4104ac4300ea1f4eee46b20f4109f7c3f5c6eafd04aee56020e5"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1212.1541",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}