Pith Number

pith:OXTLANBZ

pith:2001:OXTLANBZ2QWLR5MLNRUKAMT4KM

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The Extended Shapes of Galactic Satellites

A. D. Forestell, C. Palma, J. C. Ostheimer, K. B. Westfall, M. H. Siegel, P. M. Frinchaboy, R. J. Patterson, R. Link, S. R. Majewski, S. Sohn

arxiv:astro-ph/0109492 v1 · 2001-09-26 · astro-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{OXTLANBZ2QWLR5MLNRUKAMT4KM}

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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	2026-05-18T00:37:32.629151Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

75e6b03439d42cb8f58b6c68a0327c5328b455b8ab6bfc116822021c7be90b7a

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/0109492 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/0109492v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/0109492 · pith_short_12: OXTLANBZ2QWL · pith_short_16: OXTLANBZ2QWLR5ML · pith_short_8: OXTLANBZ

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/OXTLANBZ2QWLR5MLNRUKAMT4KM \
  | 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: 75e6b03439d42cb8f58b6c68a0327c5328b455b8ab6bfc116822021c7be90b7a

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "0622b748cc9c59a459e928d6a648b639c7f4e3f17f7c4b3909eabe99bbcdb64a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2001-09-26T18:32:47Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "4a3de078eb7dd1a231aa826e1d1e83323765d9a124ed71e668fcc99b17bb54bb"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/0109492",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}