Pith Number

pith:KP352DIT

pith:2026:KP352DITHGNJVTSMBSDNFUWCXI

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Mapping the Inner Milky Way with Infrared-Derived Distances to AGB Stars

Anupam Bhardwaj, Lor\'ant O. Sjouwerman, Rajorshi Bhattacharya, Subhajit Kar

arxiv:2608.10577 v1 · 2026-08-11 · astro-ph.GA · astro-ph.IM · astro-ph.SR

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{KP352DITHGNJVTSMBSDNFUWCXI}

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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	2026-08-12T01:22:47.657979Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

53f7dd0d13399a9ace4c0c86d2d2c2ba0deed3159ca69e0f92283494904e072f

Aliases

arxiv: 2608.10577 · arxiv_version: 2608.10577v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2608.10577 · pith_short_12: KP352DITHGNJ · pith_short_16: KP352DITHGNJVTSM · pith_short_8: KP352DIT

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/KP352DITHGNJVTSMBSDNFUWCXI \
  | 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: 53f7dd0d13399a9ace4c0c86d2d2c2ba0deed3159ca69e0f92283494904e072f

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "6f60fb586e2944cda41800a268c4cd3afc0d01b1a616a0b7a5527b8328020ca4",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.IM",
      "astro-ph.SR"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2026-08-11T07:03:05Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "2b37febb569a50ae268427f413b20f54cc22e74ea924e74113aa431f8353ece2"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2608.10577",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}