Pith Number

pith:JVAP2XB2

pith:2012:JVAP2XB2SG3PL5BUXNYKYRWOIT

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

High Velocity Dispersion in A Rare Grand Design Spiral Galaxy at Redshift z=2.18

Alice E. Shapley, Charles C. Steidel, Charlotte R. Christensen, David R. Law, Dawn K. Erb, Naveen A. Reddy

arxiv:1207.4196 v1 · 2012-07-17 · astro-ph.CO

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{JVAP2XB2SG3PL5BUXNYKYRWOIT}

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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	2026-05-18T01:56:17.161816Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

4d40fd5c3a91b6f5f434bb70ac46ce44d641f5e9fad5488b9a8bfbefd745b7ba

Aliases

arxiv: 1207.4196 · arxiv_version: 1207.4196v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1207.4196 · pith_short_12: JVAP2XB2SG3P · pith_short_16: JVAP2XB2SG3PL5BU · pith_short_8: JVAP2XB2

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/JVAP2XB2SG3PL5BUXNYKYRWOIT \
  | 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: 4d40fd5c3a91b6f5f434bb70ac46ce44d641f5e9fad5488b9a8bfbefd745b7ba

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "79d67e33f8ad35c44897125567db114b1e2788817749e224f5d8d99cbdd32d1b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.CO",
    "submitted_at": "2012-07-17T20:00:18Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "3a06a0608c3eb85e15fd73df6754627ab61d1f3a59040a4f9ec7257f7608f74e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1207.4196",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}