Pith Number

pith:KGCKLN6N

pith:2009:KGCKLN6N6YJGOYCDNB4MAMXI6K

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Lifting the Dusty Veil II: A Large-Scale Study of the Galactic Infrared Extinction Law

(2) U. Wisconsin-Madison, (3) Manchester College, 4), (4) Space Science Institute), B. A. Whitney (2, B. Babler (2), C. Watson (3), D. L. Nidever (1), E. Churchwell (2) ((1) U. Virginia, G. Zasowski (1), M. F. Skrutskie (1), M. R. Meade (2), R. Indebetouw (1), R. J. Patterson (1), S. R. Majewski (1)

arxiv:0910.4403 v1 · 2009-10-22 · astro-ph.GA

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{KGCKLN6N6YJGOYCDNB4MAMXI6K}

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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	2026-05-18T02:34:13.071708Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

5184a5b7cdf6126760436878c032e8f2a123c9dfbb846a607b27ffcf83085c46

Aliases

arxiv: 0910.4403 · arxiv_version: 0910.4403v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.0910.4403 · pith_short_12: KGCKLN6N6YJG · pith_short_16: KGCKLN6N6YJGOYCD · pith_short_8: KGCKLN6N

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/KGCKLN6N6YJGOYCDNB4MAMXI6K \
  | 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: 5184a5b7cdf6126760436878c032e8f2a123c9dfbb846a607b27ffcf83085c46

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "3087af438b0e93ef00aa04a9ff454525784aae4afd6baff379022309e2e22259",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2009-10-22T20:19:11Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "62baa127f33f7c8cb85a00b2c37cbb9a64f0c2beba913db0e4506c4fcedac8d8"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "0910.4403",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}