Pith Number

pith:PLTLWKYR

pith:1996:PLTLWKYRT7TFQYHKVZRPUC3VEF

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The outer rotation curve of the Milky Way

James Binney, Walter Dehnen (Oxford)

arxiv:astro-ph/9612060 v1 · 1996-12-05 · astro-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{PLTLWKYRT7TFQYHKVZRPUC3VEF}

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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	2026-05-18T01:12:43.938838Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

7ae6bb2b119fe65860eaae62fa0b7521556802e03e868eabf7d654f4d38a40a2

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/9612060 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/9612060v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/9612060 · pith_short_12: PLTLWKYRT7TF · pith_short_16: PLTLWKYRT7TFQYHK · pith_short_8: PLTLWKYR

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/PLTLWKYRT7TFQYHKVZRPUC3VEF \
  | 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: 7ae6bb2b119fe65860eaae62fa0b7521556802e03e868eabf7d654f4d38a40a2

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "ab9cd388b44f9edde8240728f1aff234308a8a19bc54ca42f67274bd49dd8d23",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1996-12-05T19:19:29Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "9bffa783e78b23df07c8e60aeeb900d216475fd21292056b97a31eb922c9655e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/9612060",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}