Pith Number

pith:KBQESJIV

pith:2010:KBQESJIVI4GUFS7FURKYO2T4MV

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

On the alleged duality of the Galactic halo

Luca Casagrande, Martin Asplund, Ralph Schoenrich

arxiv:1012.0842 v2 · 2010-12-03 · astro-ph.GA · astro-ph.CO

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{KBQESJIVI4GUFS7FURKYO2T4MV}

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T02:04:33.112362Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

5060492515470d42cbe5a455876a7c6569e519a829d44721eb4c3a5944432c5b

Aliases

arxiv: 1012.0842 · arxiv_version: 1012.0842v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1012.0842 · pith_short_12: KBQESJIVI4GU · pith_short_16: KBQESJIVI4GUFS7F · pith_short_8: KBQESJIV

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/KBQESJIVI4GUFS7FURKYO2T4MV \
  | 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: 5060492515470d42cbe5a455876a7c6569e519a829d44721eb4c3a5944432c5b

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "fe0eaf0aa3e0ff5d01bb58c1bc36beafd3b43d5e252b5e1f066c270fdfa632e1",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.CO"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2010-12-03T20:53:46Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "c800c4063452b972d9be64a9d15f902cbe6ddd26b676aa57dc66840a192aade9"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1012.0842",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}