Pith Number

pith:NKOJ5EOL

pith:1996:NKOJ5EOLFP4TD4CHC7GLTRJHKR

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Intergalactic stars in the Fornax Cluster

S. J. Warren (Imperial College London), Tom Theuns (Oxford University)

arxiv:astro-ph/9609076 v1 · 1996-09-10 · astro-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{NKOJ5EOLFP4TD4CHC7GLTRJHKR}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

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	2026-05-18T01:22:58.881564Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6a9c9e91cb2bf931f04717ccb9c527545766f4e564374c5262141db5732ca139

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/9609076 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/9609076v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/9609076 · pith_short_12: NKOJ5EOLFP4T · pith_short_16: NKOJ5EOLFP4TD4CH · pith_short_8: NKOJ5EOL

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/NKOJ5EOLFP4TD4CHC7GLTRJHKR \
  | 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: 6a9c9e91cb2bf931f04717ccb9c527545766f4e564374c5262141db5732ca139

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "fb557074b057e26906e18ac83f0836a1aaee844e80d14b7b4ddc919a0b9e70cb",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1996-09-10T09:50:32Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "252e97daf5cc403414cdb6d426189e187dd65d3c26b8cfd196cec4e7bc95969c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/9609076",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}