Pith Number

pith:NCLJSQTN

pith:2012:NCLJSQTNTIQIHFPKYDHCYNMKWP

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

"Galaxy," Defined

Beth Willman, Jay Strader

arxiv:1203.2608 v2 · 2012-03-12 · astro-ph.CO · astro-ph.GA

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{NCLJSQTNTIQIHFPKYDHCYNMKWP}

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Record completeness

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

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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1 paper in Pith

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Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T01:58:09.809533Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

689699426d9a208395eac0ce2c358ab3e33feac716d2c17c0bd65ee3c88f533e

Aliases

arxiv: 1203.2608 · arxiv_version: 1203.2608v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1203.2608 · pith_short_12: NCLJSQTNTIQI · pith_short_16: NCLJSQTNTIQIHFPK · pith_short_8: NCLJSQTN

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/NCLJSQTNTIQIHFPKYDHCYNMKWP \
  | 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: 689699426d9a208395eac0ce2c358ab3e33feac716d2c17c0bd65ee3c88f533e

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "6692e50f6d0e514a843e8aeb6151b3931c9a120068d85f049bc0376861bea4a5",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.GA"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.CO",
    "submitted_at": "2012-03-12T20:00:00Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "bcfc6ba5612aaa66c30665d6a2e1b23488035ed8b7f02e0a0086049dba68bd96"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1203.2608",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}