Pith Number

pith:NCTFBY7U

pith:2017:NCTFBY7UDYA356LP2G5VYK6GUM

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The molecular H2 and stellar discs in the nuclear region of NGC 4258

J. E. Steiner, Patr\'icia da Silva, R. B. Menezes

arxiv:1711.04447 v1 · 2017-11-13 · astro-ph.GA

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{NCTFBY7UDYA356LP2G5VYK6GUM}

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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	2026-05-18T00:30:33.839346Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

68a650e3f41e01bef96fd1bb5c2bc6a32d72e8714f1ab5bcc92d1205f5b621cf

Aliases

arxiv: 1711.04447 · arxiv_version: 1711.04447v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1711.04447 · pith_short_12: NCTFBY7UDYA3 · pith_short_16: NCTFBY7UDYA356LP · pith_short_8: NCTFBY7U

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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/NCTFBY7UDYA356LP2G5VYK6GUM \
  | 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: 68a650e3f41e01bef96fd1bb5c2bc6a32d72e8714f1ab5bcc92d1205f5b621cf

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "5cf1ed145dfd264cecab6129bcccfde8ae73d6de2af2155261dc90df1178bb9c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2017-11-13T07:21:20Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "3350648192a469146ded11747dba977212d1f184629baf30e884bfb1d4f724ed"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1711.04447",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}