Pith Number

pith:NMWGK2YM

pith:2012:NMWGK2YMHKF3O4A6MI4D36MSES

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A Carbon-rich Mira variable in a globular cluster: A stellar merger

John W. Menzies, Michael W. Feast, Patricia A. Whitelock

arxiv:1210.0415 v1 · 2012-10-01 · astro-ph.GA · astro-ph.SR

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{NMWGK2YMHKF3O4A6MI4D36MSES}

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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	2026-05-18T01:54:12.130929Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6b2c656b0c3a8bb7701e62383df992249a305b2ed58234172f852340b5b3603b

Aliases

arxiv: 1210.0415 · arxiv_version: 1210.0415v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1210.0415 · pith_short_12: NMWGK2YMHKF3 · pith_short_16: NMWGK2YMHKF3O4A6 · pith_short_8: NMWGK2YM

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/NMWGK2YMHKF3O4A6MI4D36MSES \
  | 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: 6b2c656b0c3a8bb7701e62383df992249a305b2ed58234172f852340b5b3603b

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c3cf7f91c6014b454aaccbc4d841c53b5110640372a7162ae052e40f83d21b2b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.SR"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2012-10-01T14:22:50Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "a9f0e52fc987b7b62563605aa5d6bf3e4322666c1400ee6f5cb333572ba03dd9"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1210.0415",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}