Pith Number

pith:MPNXR3HZ

pith:2016:MPNXR3HZE534QZEZS2I4YPCATJ

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Kinetic Tomography I: A Method for Mapping the Milky Way's Interstellar Medium in Four Dimensions

J.E.G. Peek, Kirill Tchernyshyov

arxiv:1611.03867 v1 · 2016-11-11 · astro-ph.IM · astro-ph.GA

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{MPNXR3HZE534QZEZS2I4YPCATJ}

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4 Citations 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	2026-05-18T00:53:57.740361Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

63db78ecf92777c864999691cc3c409a64e7575813359830b892fb15774c770d

Aliases

arxiv: 1611.03867 · arxiv_version: 1611.03867v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1611.03867 · pith_short_12: MPNXR3HZE534 · pith_short_16: MPNXR3HZE534QZEZ · pith_short_8: MPNXR3HZ

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/MPNXR3HZE534QZEZS2I4YPCATJ \
  | 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: 63db78ecf92777c864999691cc3c409a64e7575813359830b892fb15774c770d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c7d49ab266aba1e54703ba05100469993e2de214e1ca73f8c9122a0cdfdafd23",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.GA"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.IM",
    "submitted_at": "2016-11-11T21:00:02Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "39b3ff4b25cb7a479149fd87d47f4c3d6f4991ac119cf75004d40488622c32bb"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1611.03867",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}