Pith Number

pith:MXPAXMBT

pith:1997:MXPAXMBTX2TGA2HIWJM24555EZ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Results on Galaxy Evolution from the CNOC2 Field Galaxy Redshift Survey

C.J. Pritchet, C.W. Shepherd, D.R. Patton, D. Schade, E. Ellingson, G.D. Wirth, H.K.C. Yee, H. Lin, M. Sawicki, R.G. Carlberg, R.O. Marzke, S.L. Morris

arxiv:astro-ph/9712244 v1 · 1997-12-18 · astro-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{MXPAXMBTX2TGA2HIWJM24555EZ}

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5 Replications 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	2026-07-04T14:15:36.116529Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

65de0bb033bea66068e8b259ae77bd264e468c01f1c89c713b6071df9d2a8c6e

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/9712244 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/9712244v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/9712244 · pith_short_12: MXPAXMBTX2TG · pith_short_16: MXPAXMBTX2TGA2HI · pith_short_8: MXPAXMBT

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/MXPAXMBTX2TGA2HIWJM24555EZ \
  | 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: 65de0bb033bea66068e8b259ae77bd264e468c01f1c89c713b6071df9d2a8c6e

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "8803196a070e07e9d76c6cf490b55bfb1383eb3d42c8eb972c9235499289c3c0",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1997-12-18T00:32:18Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "1a95fd95c0d912cf1f5d19f6f64b46e3b646b7e4903cc5368ec4562a5b195279"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/9712244",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}