Pith Number

pith:LBXKLV5L

pith:2012:LBXKLV5LRM2PG4GALYQTY55T7H

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Understanding our Galaxy - key contributions from the Parkes telescope

J. L. Caswell

arxiv:1210.0978 v1 · 2012-10-03 · astro-ph.IM · astro-ph.GA

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{LBXKLV5LRM2PG4GALYQTY55T7H}

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4 Citations 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	2026-05-18T03:44:13.196644Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

586ea5d7ab8b34f370c05e213c77b3f9e11d3f7e76a565f4a145a091d2ce8dee

Aliases

arxiv: 1210.0978 · arxiv_version: 1210.0978v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1210.0978 · pith_short_12: LBXKLV5LRM2P · pith_short_16: LBXKLV5LRM2PG4GA · pith_short_8: LBXKLV5L

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/LBXKLV5LRM2PG4GALYQTY55T7H \
  | 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: 586ea5d7ab8b34f370c05e213c77b3f9e11d3f7e76a565f4a145a091d2ce8dee

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "df0268794a47410f62c90110aa11e2dc32363930b811fb438755b2c53843d948",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.GA"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.IM",
    "submitted_at": "2012-10-03T05:09:35Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "dadc8f74bc1127046dd869c88bd0090026c6c9c7c1775980aa49af9eb5239ca9"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1210.0978",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}