Pith Number

pith:MIC23GKK

pith:2012:MIC23GKKMVGBT77WDRXCGAZNH2

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A wide-area view of the Phoenix dwarf galaxy from VLT/FORS imaging

Eline Tolstoy, Giacomo Beccari, Giuseppina Battaglia, Marina Rejkuba, Mike Irwin

arxiv:1205.2704 v1 · 2012-05-11 · astro-ph.GA · astro-ph.CO

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{MIC23GKKMVGBT77WDRXCGAZNH2}

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T01:57:33.097915Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6205ad994a654c19fff61c6e23032d3ea6a68824abfc008e53d88187e1379a00

Aliases

arxiv: 1205.2704 · arxiv_version: 1205.2704v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1205.2704 · pith_short_12: MIC23GKKMVGB · pith_short_16: MIC23GKKMVGBT77W · pith_short_8: MIC23GKK

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/MIC23GKKMVGBT77WDRXCGAZNH2 \
  | 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: 6205ad994a654c19fff61c6e23032d3ea6a68824abfc008e53d88187e1379a00

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "7f2fd09623c02c5a170e67d3c261db4312357f611de91f13b51102a2cbff1022",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.CO"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2012-05-11T20:05:56Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "9ec57a0a80d34d12ad20acc700734b6f85f35fbd151e2ed27a5ab0976203d957"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1205.2704",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}