Pith Number

pith:MEA6K2MY

pith:2016:MEA6K2MYGFUYJ64BRP2CSVAKR4

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The Distance to M104

Andrew E. Dolphin, Danielle Berg, Evan D. Skillman, Kristen B. W. McQuinn, Robert Kennicutt

arxiv:1610.03857 v1 · 2016-10-12 · astro-ph.GA

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{MEA6K2MYGFUYJ64BRP2CSVAKR4}

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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	2026-05-18T01:02:23.186268Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6101e56998316984fb818bf429540a8f2026d05ef19f2aa8b6de68c0d98b32ee

Aliases

arxiv: 1610.03857 · arxiv_version: 1610.03857v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1610.03857 · pith_short_12: MEA6K2MYGFUY · pith_short_16: MEA6K2MYGFUYJ64B · pith_short_8: MEA6K2MY

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/MEA6K2MYGFUYJ64BRP2CSVAKR4 \
  | 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: 6101e56998316984fb818bf429540a8f2026d05ef19f2aa8b6de68c0d98b32ee

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "6fca9e25935931865db21cc26eebf3d95d1e799df6792e8d1ce35233c93ce975",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2016-10-12T20:00:17Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "5b7de01e278c90ba057c3227c309e37ed563825d0344232efb2f9ad1146ee0ed"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1610.03857",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}