Pith Number

pith:KWSCY5YN

pith:2015:KWSCY5YNNPQECG5SOSA4TOITYQ

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VEGAS: A VST Early-type GAlaxy Survey. I. Presentation, wide-field surface photometry, and substructures in NGC 4472

Aaron J. Romanowsky, Aniello Grado, Duncan A. Forbes, Enrichetta Iodice, Gabriella Raimondo, Luca Limatola, Marilena Spavone, Massimo Capaccioli, Maurizio Paolillo, Michele Cantiello, Nicola R. Napolitano, Pietro Schipani, Thomas H. Puzia

arxiv:1507.01336 v2 · 2015-07-06 · astro-ph.GA

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{KWSCY5YNNPQECG5SOSA4TOITYQ}

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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	2026-05-18T01:34:47.768495Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

55a42c770d6be0411bb27481c9b913c409c106cc69f345ca0c809dbcc1b798fe

Aliases

arxiv: 1507.01336 · arxiv_version: 1507.01336v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1507.01336 · pith_short_12: KWSCY5YNNPQE · pith_short_16: KWSCY5YNNPQECG5S · pith_short_8: KWSCY5YN

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/KWSCY5YNNPQECG5SOSA4TOITYQ \
  | 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: 55a42c770d6be0411bb27481c9b913c409c106cc69f345ca0c809dbcc1b798fe

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "64d74eeb95ba8113f082cbdafd6efc549ee00b8aaa1866fb7deb8af73de7df07",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2015-07-06T07:28:59Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "2eb7f157c1bf6c9d49b52685739f9537d28a33c84ffdbb7d6f24f9c666042bcd"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1507.01336",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}