Pith Number

pith:M5XTVWUG

pith:2012:M5XTVWUGHNHLMEKZRKMGMGDVRL

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Two Distant Halo Velocity Groups Discovered by the Palomar Transient Factory

B. Sesar, C. J. Grillmair, D. Levitan, E. N. Kirby, E. O. Ofek, J. A. Surace, J. G. Cohen, M. Juric, R. R. Laher, S. R. Kulkarni, T. A. Prince

arxiv:1206.0269 v2 · 2012-06-01 · astro-ph.GA

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{M5XTVWUGHNHLMEKZRKMGMGDVRL}

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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	2026-05-18T01:57:08.773458Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

676f3ada863b4eb611598a986618758ad95908a0b26b2718917be726de2c3e86

Aliases

arxiv: 1206.0269 · arxiv_version: 1206.0269v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1206.0269 · pith_short_12: M5XTVWUGHNHL · pith_short_16: M5XTVWUGHNHLMEKZ · pith_short_8: M5XTVWUG

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/M5XTVWUGHNHLMEKZRKMGMGDVRL \
  | 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: 676f3ada863b4eb611598a986618758ad95908a0b26b2718917be726de2c3e86

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c329aa7fc9be85aa0a9aa2b77efa9575a95c33b0c4e82135c34691b4d905ca66",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2012-06-01T18:28:41Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "4fba834b6fb9427c6da43a9b4e9afae800eeb1ece189a0bda9b555450a539380"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1206.0269",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}