Pith Number

pith:KDK7I7XI

pith:2000:KDK7I7XIS6RDHMJ4Z75PR5SRJB

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Serendipitous 2MASS Discoveries Near the Galactic Plane: A Spiral Galaxy and Two Globular Clusters

J. Davy Kirkpatrick, Mike Skrutskie, Robert L. Hurt, Roc M. Cutri, Stephen E. Schneider, Tom H. Jarrett, Willem van Driel

arxiv:astro-ph/0006262 v1 · 2000-06-19 · astro-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{KDK7I7XIS6RDHMJ4Z75PR5SRJB}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-07-04T16:16:48.813916Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

50d5f47ee897a233b13ccffaf8f65148545a28962d7d3d0a404628bf6245ee40

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/0006262 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/0006262v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/0006262 · pith_short_12: KDK7I7XIS6RD · pith_short_16: KDK7I7XIS6RDHMJ4 · pith_short_8: KDK7I7XI

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/KDK7I7XIS6RDHMJ4Z75PR5SRJB \
  | 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: 50d5f47ee897a233b13ccffaf8f65148545a28962d7d3d0a404628bf6245ee40

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "5eab92b8cf3784f67a84b1a6cd15ebb58be0eebdd887e109a23e1b09849fbf1a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2000-06-19T22:54:21Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "74cb39133fc29d33a0738e6e8e41bb1e67091a82195ab73bfa44ae3c63a00237"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/0006262",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}