Pith Number

pith:KXQFBNWQ

pith:2012:KXQFBNWQVO4PIJIHVPWIVVZQGU

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

ARGOS III: Stellar Populations in the Galactic Bulge of the Milky Way

D. Yong, E. Athanassoula, E. Wylie de Boer, G. F. Lewis, J. Bland Hawthorn, K. Freeman, L. L. Kiss, M. Asplund, M. Ness, R. R. Lane

arxiv:1212.1540 v1 · 2012-12-07 · astro-ph.GA

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{KXQFBNWQVO4PIJIHVPWIVVZQGU}

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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	2026-05-18T01:52:46.633150Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

55e050b6d0abb8f42507abec8ad7303518f268a5fffa37d5f1d51a28e86e5dda

Aliases

arxiv: 1212.1540 · arxiv_version: 1212.1540v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1212.1540 · pith_short_12: KXQFBNWQVO4P · pith_short_16: KXQFBNWQVO4PIJIH · pith_short_8: KXQFBNWQ

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/KXQFBNWQVO4PIJIHVPWIVVZQGU \
  | 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: 55e050b6d0abb8f42507abec8ad7303518f268a5fffa37d5f1d51a28e86e5dda

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "2bf75d55c895ac0e01ee9a62af1eec1c730b830bee8430af2f6b22e4313c4c5b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2012-12-07T06:46:40Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "95abd52d7738bacc5e01afd0a31f278d974610e2d9e634051a048515f9dcbbca"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1212.1540",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}