Pith Number

pith:NB5B43IX

pith:2016:NB5B43IXARBYBLELNRXOPMXFKI

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Before the Bar: Kinematic Detection of A Spheroidal Metal-Poor Bulge Component

Andrea Kunder, A.R. Walker, C. I. Johnson, D.M. Nataf, G. Bono, J. Shen, J. Storm, R. De Propris, R.M. Rich, Z.Y. Li

arxiv:1603.06578 v1 · 2016-03-21 · astro-ph.GA · astro-ph.SR

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\pithnumber{NB5B43IXARBYBLELNRXOPMXFKI}

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First computed	2026-05-18T01:16:13.344491Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

687a1e6d17044380ac8b6c6ee7b2e5520cd9749b8d14926a2eee7b5a73e997da

Aliases

arxiv: 1603.06578 · arxiv_version: 1603.06578v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1603.06578 · pith_short_12: NB5B43IXARBY · pith_short_16: NB5B43IXARBYBLEL · pith_short_8: NB5B43IX

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/NB5B43IXARBYBLELNRXOPMXFKI \
  | 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: 687a1e6d17044380ac8b6c6ee7b2e5520cd9749b8d14926a2eee7b5a73e997da

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "95399afc2258361186c2b311c9667913ecb5fe25899113cc0cd183a7994eb334",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.SR"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2016-03-21T20:00:02Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "28a1c3eacb98a4bd9754a30e3b0561e0ce32b173b8cb40b814bcdc751136346f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1603.06578",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}