Pith Number

pith:NHP3Y5NE

pith:1996:NHP3Y5NECXHBULTQXNA7PXABX6

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Kinematics of the Outer Stellar Halo

Chris Flynn, Jesper Sommer-Larsen, Per Rex Christensen

arxiv:astro-ph/9603106 v1 · 1996-03-20 · astro-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{NHP3Y5NECXHBULTQXNA7PXABX6}

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T01:40:21.581804Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

69dfbc75a415ce1a2e70bb41f7dc01bfbfd886739fb432aada53972082cace27

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/9603106 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/9603106v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/9603106 · pith_short_12: NHP3Y5NECXHB · pith_short_16: NHP3Y5NECXHBULTQ · pith_short_8: NHP3Y5NE

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/NHP3Y5NECXHBULTQXNA7PXABX6 \
  | 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: 69dfbc75a415ce1a2e70bb41f7dc01bfbfd886739fb432aada53972082cace27

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "2c7fb862a8e9fe176eb3906f6f0fefeec9116d4a5d90f2be3592d40c0f232814",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1996-03-20T10:09:52Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "05a89fbbf0c3f782e0dbca7e9fd4cfb837f69f613a2e62b827dabf9d53732c6d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/9603106",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}