Pith Number

pith:MKHPYIVY

pith:2017:MKHPYIVYFTVSSLOXWIDMKLGJB6

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The importance of preventive feedback: inference from observations of the stellar masses and metallicities of Milky Way dwarf galaxies

Andrew Benson, Andrew Wetzel, Annika H.G. Peter, Michael Boylan-Kolchin, Risa Wechsler, Stephanie Tonnesen, Yao-Yuan Mao, Yu Lu

arxiv:1703.07467 v2 · 2017-03-21 · astro-ph.GA · astro-ph.CO

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\pithnumber{MKHPYIVYFTVSSLOXWIDMKLGJB6}

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:35:59.177668Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

628efc22b82ceb292dd7b206c52cc90f8c0248c407e7f52f00edd916361493c9

Aliases

arxiv: 1703.07467 · arxiv_version: 1703.07467v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1703.07467 · pith_short_12: MKHPYIVYFTVS · pith_short_16: MKHPYIVYFTVSSLOX · pith_short_8: MKHPYIVY

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/MKHPYIVYFTVSSLOXWIDMKLGJB6 \
  | 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: 628efc22b82ceb292dd7b206c52cc90f8c0248c407e7f52f00edd916361493c9

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "974a5ccc802b3b0ff1a241a9df50b3a83414b09cf50f9def7c8e08108a1feae8",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.CO"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2017-03-21T23:20:38Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "3e12aaad477fe8bbc1a02435ca9ee7048e3e242982a5eef62db99b351f817db3"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1703.07467",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}