Pith Number

pith:LFCQCLEE

pith:2017:LFCQCLEEJLFD3GAY7LMYYFILAB

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KDG 218, a Nearby Ultra-Diffuse Galaxy

I. D. Karachentsev, L. N. Makarova, M. E. Sharina, V. E. Karachentseva

arxiv:1711.06074 v1 · 2017-11-16 · astro-ph.GA

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{LFCQCLEEJLFD3GAY7LMYYFILAB}

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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	2026-05-18T00:28:10.275136Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

5945012c844aca3d9818fad98c150b005c2b629ad960eec9c0b010eb96168dfb

Aliases

arxiv: 1711.06074 · arxiv_version: 1711.06074v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1711.06074 · pith_short_12: LFCQCLEEJLFD · pith_short_16: LFCQCLEEJLFD3GAY · pith_short_8: LFCQCLEE

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/LFCQCLEEJLFD3GAY7LMYYFILAB \
  | 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: 5945012c844aca3d9818fad98c150b005c2b629ad960eec9c0b010eb96168dfb

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "574fef1b526dcb302952db728481356547c2fcaa758fcc83c56a3207d24f785a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2017-11-16T13:14:12Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ed1e47c5431123899de616e43917d1035766b86fbf6cd7ed75205ba50e042388"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1711.06074",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}