Pith Number

pith:MX3NWJSM

pith:1998:MX3NWJSMEUOYTE3FYA2BWTWFAM

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Evolutionary Status of Dwarf ``Transition'' Galaxies

(2) University of Wisconsin), III (2) ((1) The Johns Hopkins University, John S. Gallagher, Kenneth R. Sembach (1), Patricia M. Knezek (1)

arxiv:astro-ph/9810119 v1 · 1998-10-08 · astro-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{MX3NWJSMEUOYTE3FYA2BWTWFAM}

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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	2026-05-18T03:47:42.556437Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

65f6db264c251d899365c0341b4ec5033f7387620b226cffda6c19cfcc054933

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/9810119 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/9810119v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/9810119 · pith_short_12: MX3NWJSMEUOY · pith_short_16: MX3NWJSMEUOYTE3F · pith_short_8: MX3NWJSM

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/MX3NWJSMEUOYTE3FYA2BWTWFAM \
  | 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: 65f6db264c251d899365c0341b4ec5033f7387620b226cffda6c19cfcc054933

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a2b4d313fd59c09a61d97af286d3494e7bbf0e4293c38f831ecbffdd1eeeadf5",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1998-10-08T00:32:03Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "693370409db4181d5d784057ac60ce0417fb503a1c0eadd1406efe803ea037dc"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/9810119",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}