Pith Number

pith:KMSVXKKK

pith:2015:KMSVXKKKTCTXHWRXFYKFPJV2IK

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The Age and Structure of the Galactic Bulge from Mira Variables

Christophe Alard, Michael W. Feast, Mike Irwin, Patricia A. Whitelock, Robin M. Catchpole, Shaun M. G. Hughes

arxiv:1510.03295 v1 · 2015-10-12 · astro-ph.SR · astro-ph.GA

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{KMSVXKKKTCTXHWRXFYKFPJV2IK}

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4 Citations 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	2026-05-18T01:25:38.204428Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

53255ba94a98a773da372e1457a6ba429e93bd7672fa088793995ccb81b759ac

Aliases

arxiv: 1510.03295 · arxiv_version: 1510.03295v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1510.03295 · pith_short_12: KMSVXKKKTCTX · pith_short_16: KMSVXKKKTCTXHWRX · pith_short_8: KMSVXKKK

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/KMSVXKKKTCTXHWRXFYKFPJV2IK \
  | 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: 53255ba94a98a773da372e1457a6ba429e93bd7672fa088793995ccb81b759ac

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "6ad24b1f9680174f8d1d669e4cd1388bb81b17f1c5549477fd85ea0bd58e8c68",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.GA"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.SR",
    "submitted_at": "2015-10-12T14:19:23Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ebbfd0401b01cf7e15257ffa12dbfc382dd5294c89c7945492e1bf5375798058"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1510.03295",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}