Pith Number

pith:J35DHVUH

pith:1997:J35DHVUHQ3MPJ3EYOJ54SDN4MD

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The Globular Cluster M54 and the Star Formation History of the Sagittarius Dwarf Galaxy

Andrew C. Layden (U of Michigan), Ata Sarajedini (KPNO)

arxiv:astro-ph/9706168 v1 · 1997-06-16 · astro-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{J35DHVUHQ3MPJ3EYOJ54SDN4MD}

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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	2026-05-18T01:07:38.270985Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

4efa33d68786d8f4ec98727bc90dbc60f9179bde822fcc758c020224cbbd7922

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/9706168 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/9706168v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/9706168 · pith_short_12: J35DHVUHQ3MP · pith_short_16: J35DHVUHQ3MPJ3EY · pith_short_8: J35DHVUH

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/J35DHVUHQ3MPJ3EYOJ54SDN4MD \
  | 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: 4efa33d68786d8f4ec98727bc90dbc60f9179bde822fcc758c020224cbbd7922

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "178c2a5cb582cee35fbde564cf03704d6354959ef3e60f94af55b5099fff1077",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1997-06-16T21:05:26Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f259029e55e1e97bd1176a678d352663d8298ea315a5a5142e49c4386428a8e9"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/9706168",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}