Pith Number

pith:M4NQKGEC

pith:2012:M4NQKGECEWMJQ5S7HTC3PAXFSO

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Standard candles from the Gaia perspective

Dafydd W. Evans, Gisella Clementini, Laszlo Szabados, Laurent Eyer, Lovro Palaversa, Nami Mowlavi, Pierre Dubath, Richard I. Anderson, Silvio Leccia, Thomas Lebzelter, Vincenzo Ripepi

arxiv:1201.4889 v1 · 2012-01-23 · astro-ph.SR

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{M4NQKGECEWMJQ5S7HTC3PAXFSO}

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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	2026-05-18T01:58:43.031459Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

671b051882259898765f3cc5b782e593bff70aba284e9ae091e972879c37d4a0

Aliases

arxiv: 1201.4889 · arxiv_version: 1201.4889v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1201.4889 · pith_short_12: M4NQKGECEWMJ · pith_short_16: M4NQKGECEWMJQ5S7 · pith_short_8: M4NQKGEC

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/M4NQKGECEWMJQ5S7HTC3PAXFSO \
  | 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: 671b051882259898765f3cc5b782e593bff70aba284e9ae091e972879c37d4a0

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "0fc2c916755c241c5692b5cc9e6f0791fb446dad9e340b0673a77fe0700232cf",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.SR",
    "submitted_at": "2012-01-23T22:41:27Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "619e4fcf268326529a442c811205cf36d28f420fa2b14f3d5abd99288d7c8397"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1201.4889",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}