Pith Number

pith:PBZ2L537

pith:2002:PBZ2L537FHGR7STIWQPFMLZXJX

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Central Mass Concentration and Bar Dissolution in Nearby Spiral Galaxies

Andrew I. Harris, Kartik Sheth, Michael W. Regan, Mousumi Das, Peter J. Teuben, Stuart N. Vogel, William H. Jefferys

arxiv:astro-ph/0208467 v1 · 2002-08-26 · astro-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{PBZ2L537FHGR7STIWQPFMLZXJX}

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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	2026-07-04T16:30:41.336912Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

7873a5f77f29cd1fca68b41e562f374ddc2d27f63256643e44df70a76c5c4aa9

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/0208467 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/0208467v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/0208467 · pith_short_12: PBZ2L537FHGR · pith_short_16: PBZ2L537FHGR7STI · pith_short_8: PBZ2L537

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/PBZ2L537FHGR7STIWQPFMLZXJX \
  | 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: 7873a5f77f29cd1fca68b41e562f374ddc2d27f63256643e44df70a76c5c4aa9

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a6898568c0d9b8b19b975b2853a9148dbc5e5169a4fd33b76c03a4d3209bf393",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2002-08-26T22:58:27Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "9d973eb810706ba668961d585186d05eedc272718ffc906f67bd48306b1887eb"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/0208467",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}