Pith Number

pith:KODM23LR

pith:2014:KODM23LR5P5HU3PTGOXAEFIUJL

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The Galactic Bar

Christopher Wegg (MPE, Garching, Germany), Ortwin Gerhard

arxiv:1408.0219 v1 · 2014-08-01 · astro-ph.GA

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{KODM23LR5P5HU3PTGOXAEFIUJL}

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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

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

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	2026-05-18T00:21:15.108658Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

5386cd6d71ebfa7a6df333ae0215144ac3da7ec33e9d0055e400e7d972ac8a5f

Aliases

arxiv: 1408.0219 · arxiv_version: 1408.0219v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1408.0219 · pith_short_12: KODM23LR5P5H · pith_short_16: KODM23LR5P5HU3PT · pith_short_8: KODM23LR

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/KODM23LR5P5HU3PTGOXAEFIUJL \
  | 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: 5386cd6d71ebfa7a6df333ae0215144ac3da7ec33e9d0055e400e7d972ac8a5f

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "4fd1539544d6b9cdb7ffecdb4989afef5d17d426d5febb1fdb224b4be60b3955",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2014-08-01T16:18:14Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "89d921dab5717c9f29e2479e554b4300181a47ed72d013a9dd1cac163220ee18"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1408.0219",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}