Pith Number

pith:KIUMV4T5

pith:2018:KIUMV4T5ODPDIXKGGZ544OPKWR

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Independent Analysis of the Distance to NGC1052-DF2

John P. Blakeslee, Michele Cantiello

arxiv:1808.02176 v2 · 2018-08-07 · astro-ph.GA

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{KIUMV4T5ODPDIXKGGZ544OPKWR}

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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	2026-05-18T00:08:30.766105Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

5228caf27d70de345d46367bce39eab459c9664e2d00478e3b50523101d67b20

Aliases

arxiv: 1808.02176 · arxiv_version: 1808.02176v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1808.02176 · pith_short_12: KIUMV4T5ODPD · pith_short_16: KIUMV4T5ODPDIXKG · pith_short_8: KIUMV4T5

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/KIUMV4T5ODPDIXKGGZ544OPKWR \
  | 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: 5228caf27d70de345d46367bce39eab459c9664e2d00478e3b50523101d67b20

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "fe5e9b689843a0296bea4445cd248a4009485e5119927a42754e24916df8e4ee",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2018-08-07T01:21:22Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "35ba224f5e227af2c28693a46f0e501e279c1fe9c6c0c20f325f059a519d38a8"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1808.02176",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}