Pith Number

pith:KCOMV5IO

pith:2018:KCOMV5IOQQU6L4U2GCPDKJ76DG

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Two chemically similar stellar overdensities on opposite sides of the plane of the Galaxy

Adrian M. Price-Whelan, Aldo M. Serenelli, Allyson Sheffield, Andrew Gould, Branimir Sesar, Chervin F.P. Laporte, Judith G. Cohen, Kathryn V. Johnston, Luca Casagrande, Maria Bergemann, Ralph Schoenrich, Ting S. Li

arxiv:1803.00563 v1 · 2018-03-01 · astro-ph.GA

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{KCOMV5IOQQU6L4U2GCPDKJ76DG}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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	2026-05-18T00:22:11.456752Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

509ccaf50e8429e5f29a309e3527fe19a9e28937fd0cc30e0d0bab8fbe734d73

Aliases

arxiv: 1803.00563 · arxiv_version: 1803.00563v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1803.00563 · pith_short_12: KCOMV5IOQQU6 · pith_short_16: KCOMV5IOQQU6L4U2 · pith_short_8: KCOMV5IO

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/KCOMV5IOQQU6L4U2GCPDKJ76DG \
  | 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: 509ccaf50e8429e5f29a309e3527fe19a9e28937fd0cc30e0d0bab8fbe734d73

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f4db021837deae71dc066eb4fefc36ffb7338cb946197f79e8e698381191b701",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2018-03-01T18:59:56Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "0559acb265bd93ed1e1ebcfead58fea78a2fc80e9d7a3924ca16d5c8956a79fa"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1803.00563",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}