Pith Number

pith:M5LRVAD2

pith:2006:M5LRVAD2HMU4FPXGOONCJCIVLB

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Spectroscopy of Globular Clusters out to Large Radius in the Sombrero Galaxy

Katherine Rhode (Wesleyan, Ken Freeman (RSAA/ANU), Steve Zepf (Michigan State University), Terry Bridges (Queen's), Yale)

arxiv:astro-ph/0611896 v1 · 2006-11-29 · astro-ph

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\pithnumber{M5LRVAD2HMU4FPXGOONCJCIVLB}

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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	2026-05-18T01:40:28.637949Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

67571a807a3b29c2bee6739a2489155849b65d4406451d6b02ec8669d6481f67

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/0611896 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/0611896v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/0611896 · pith_short_12: M5LRVAD2HMU4 · pith_short_16: M5LRVAD2HMU4FPXG · pith_short_8: M5LRVAD2

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/M5LRVAD2HMU4FPXGOONCJCIVLB \
  | 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: 67571a807a3b29c2bee6739a2489155849b65d4406451d6b02ec8669d6481f67

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f4cf40c10245d466bb6a8adcc21ea4ecc6661e47893e6b331f8b4f5aded400b2",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2006-11-29T19:44:56Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "7e5e8b184f28af3daf5bad68447796ee053f8f38a0419f92112330041c177866"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/0611896",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}