Pith Number

pith:P4ERT3ZW

pith:2016:P4ERT3ZWFMHD62Z3FDPCN4WPBD

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The Stellar Density Profile of the Distant Galactic Halo

Colin T. Slater, David L. Nidever, Eric F. Bell, Jeffrey A. Munn, Steven R. Majewski

arxiv:1610.02034 v1 · 2016-10-06 · astro-ph.GA

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{P4ERT3ZWFMHD62Z3FDPCN4WPBD}

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Record completeness

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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	2026-05-18T00:55:07.272957Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

7f0919ef362b0e3f6b3b28de26f2cf08d9e0361cabff3679d9af0869b9f1e130

Aliases

arxiv: 1610.02034 · arxiv_version: 1610.02034v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1610.02034 · pith_short_12: P4ERT3ZWFMHD · pith_short_16: P4ERT3ZWFMHD62Z3 · pith_short_8: P4ERT3ZW

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/P4ERT3ZWFMHD62Z3FDPCN4WPBD \
  | 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: 7f0919ef362b0e3f6b3b28de26f2cf08d9e0361cabff3679d9af0869b9f1e130

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "be313d53f09643af932c419a03459ee539d92d8150bfa0652cb207ab68bb2e3a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2016-10-06T20:00:01Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "21f2962cc6a88ded2a489a1ab2ee50da548c14d2e3816861fb3444c0a61c14e0"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1610.02034",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}