Pith Number

pith:P34DB3FA

pith:2018:P34DB3FABDCFSXBQSHKA74G7GV

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LSST Cadence Optimization White Paper: The Definitive Map of the Galactic bulge

Christian I. Johnson (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA), Daisuke Kawata (University College London), Dante Minniti (Universidad Andr\'es Bello), Elena Valenti (European Southern Observatory), Giuseppe Bono (Universita' di Roma), Jay Strader (Michigan State University), John Gizis (University of Delaware), Manuela Zoccali (P. Universidad Cat\'olica), Massimo Dall'Ora (INAF), Nitya Kallivayalil (University of Virginia), Oscar A. Gonzalez (UK Astronomy Technology Centre), Phil Lucas (University of Hertfordshire), Rachel Street (Las Cumbres Observatory), Ricardo Schiavon (Liverpool-John Moores University), R. Michael Rich (UCLA), Victor P. Debattista (UCLan), Will Clarkson (University of Michigan-Dearborn)

arxiv:1812.08670 v1 · 2018-12-20 · astro-ph.GA

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First computed	2026-05-17T23:57:49.415145Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

7ef830eca008c4595c3091d40ff0df357ff8f2cfb7ecd04413e572310a42072e

Aliases

arxiv: 1812.08670 · arxiv_version: 1812.08670v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1812.08670 · pith_short_12: P34DB3FABDCF · pith_short_16: P34DB3FABDCFSXBQ · pith_short_8: P34DB3FA

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/P34DB3FABDCFSXBQSHKA74G7GV \
  | 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: 7ef830eca008c4595c3091d40ff0df357ff8f2cfb7ecd04413e572310a42072e

Canonical record JSON

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    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2018-12-20T16:15:33Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f7450e2a80c34833022b2044a9b797020a8c52a616d01d5ec7dacab1c283bafd"
  },
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  "source": {
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  }
}