Pith Number

pith:LNBS2G6C

pith:2013:LNBS2G6CK66RMZXOCWHE4I7C7D

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The Bolocam Galactic Plane Survey. VIII. A Mid-Infrared Kinematic Distance Discrimination Method

Adam Ginsburg, Cara Battersby, Erik Rosolowsky, Jason Glenn, John Bally, Neal J. Evans II, Steven Mairs, Timothy P. Ellsworth-Bowers, Yancy L. Shirley

arxiv:1304.4597 v1 · 2013-04-16 · astro-ph.GA

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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	2026-05-18T03:25:14.029789Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

5b432d1bc257bd1666ee158e4e23e2f8c09a845714d61d9f3f6d8450dd734e72

Aliases

arxiv: 1304.4597 · arxiv_version: 1304.4597v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1304.4597 · pith_short_12: LNBS2G6CK66R · pith_short_16: LNBS2G6CK66RMZXO · pith_short_8: LNBS2G6C

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/LNBS2G6CK66RMZXOCWHE4I7C7D \
  | 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: 5b432d1bc257bd1666ee158e4e23e2f8c09a845714d61d9f3f6d8450dd734e72

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "2c20b50e8442dc09e5475c9f0e1bb48cd9c156fd1efe30b921dac735243ff5d6",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2013-04-16T20:00:05Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "be93d6d75a4977414d20eba6ec9897d727e6a91b1efd37dfd930121f1915757d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1304.4597",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}