Pith Number

pith:OFKEBVAA

pith:2018:OFKEBVAAO7VYQBFFIJBDMJJABK

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

unVEil the darknesS of The gAlactic buLgE (VESTALE)

A. Calamida, A. Kunder, A. Pietrinferni, A.R. Walker, A. Saha, B. Chaboyer, B. Lemasle, C. Chiappini, C.E. Martinez-Vazquez, C.K. Gilligan, C. Sneden, D. Magurno, E. Tognelli, E. Valenti, G. Altavilla, G. Bono, G. Fiorentino, G. Iannicola, G. Sacco, I. Ferraro, I. Musella, J. Crestani, J. Neeley, K. Hambleton, L. Inno, L. Magrini, L. Pulone, M. Castellani, M. Catelan, M. Dall'Ora, M. Fabrizio, M.G. Navarro, M. Marconi, M. Marengo, M. Monelli, M.Nonino, M.R. Rich, M. Salaris, M. Tantalo, M.T. Botticella, M. Torelli, M. Zoccali (LSST Transient, N. Matsunaga, O. Creevey, O. Gonzalez, P.B. Stetson, P.G. Prada Moroni, P.M. Marrese, R.A Street, R. Contreras Ramos, R. Da Silva, R. Szabo, S. Degl'Innocenti, S. Marinoni, Variable Stars Collaboration), V.Debattista, V.F. Braga, V. Ripepi, W. Clarkson

arxiv:1812.03124 v1 · 2018-12-07 · astro-ph.SR · astro-ph.GA

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\pithnumber{OFKEBVAAO7VYQBFFIJBDMJJABK}

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First computed	2026-05-17T23:58:50.871454Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

715440d40077eb8804a542423625200a9f3d31c34a408c30a969504fed59385b

Aliases

arxiv: 1812.03124 · arxiv_version: 1812.03124v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1812.03124 · pith_short_12: OFKEBVAAO7VY · pith_short_16: OFKEBVAAO7VYQBFF · pith_short_8: OFKEBVAA

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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/OFKEBVAAO7VYQBFFIJBDMJJABK \
  | 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: 715440d40077eb8804a542423625200a9f3d31c34a408c30a969504fed59385b

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c1a2585e857936e26ee7a3f611364ca94d63fc98b714febaf29da1c8ea57889e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.GA"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.SR",
    "submitted_at": "2018-12-07T17:38:40Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "1cf5e01706755a1a32016eeae861c7eee557d799e8743990e7ec0b69dad5e55e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1812.03124",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}