Pith Number

pith:KQAB5MZG

pith:2007:KQAB5MZGAWONETMTBYCHFGRWS2

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Large Magellanic Cloud Distance from Cepheid Variables using Least Squares Solutions

C. Ngeow (UIUC), S. Kanbur (SUNY Oswego)

arxiv:0708.0445 v1 · 2007-08-03 · astro-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{KQAB5MZGAWONETMTBYCHFGRWS2}

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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	2026-05-18T02:16:28.911741Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

54001eb326059cd24d930e04729a369699addcece69b4eaa2a80f87c347bbdff

Aliases

arxiv: 0708.0445 · arxiv_version: 0708.0445v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.0708.0445 · pith_short_12: KQAB5MZGAWON · pith_short_16: KQAB5MZGAWONETMT · pith_short_8: KQAB5MZG

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/KQAB5MZGAWONETMTBYCHFGRWS2 \
  | 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: 54001eb326059cd24d930e04729a369699addcece69b4eaa2a80f87c347bbdff

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "04bfcc0ff625bf474140640e31c1241c404fcb66e91cdf60f8a45c46bc62f0cb",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2007-08-03T02:13:51Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "897cec841d3176babed6e279238e6b29ff287e13e7b517d027d41e27c7dd5045"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "0708.0445",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}