Pith Number

pith:PP2GX5UJ

pith:2007:PP2GX5UJNH2U645F2VRVV3N2JT

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The Origin of the Magellanic Stream and Its Leading Arm

David L. Nidever, Steven R. Majewski, W. Butler Burton

arxiv:0706.1578 v2 · 2007-06-11 · astro-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{PP2GX5UJNH2U645F2VRVV3N2JT}

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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	2026-07-04T15:44:26.251639Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

7bf46bf68969f54f73a5d5635aedba4cdee1dfac3b78472059bed146945b65e6

Aliases

arxiv: 0706.1578 · arxiv_version: 0706.1578v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.0706.1578 · pith_short_12: PP2GX5UJNH2U · pith_short_16: PP2GX5UJNH2U645F · pith_short_8: PP2GX5UJ

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/PP2GX5UJNH2U645F2VRVV3N2JT \
  | 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: 7bf46bf68969f54f73a5d5635aedba4cdee1dfac3b78472059bed146945b65e6

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "70eb8f55582b1658b38e52c32511872c148d71921c2d91ddbf81bf3890c213c3",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2007-06-11T21:07:32Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d76f40c44df3f8d9bb706b6ea74dd5721d2decd6a16a159a61f1dd6fa4400cf7"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "0706.1578",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}