Pith Number

pith:PSTCEY5J

pith:2006:PSTCEY5JYOQOWUM72REVEP5RDF

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The Distance to the Galactic Center Derived From Infrared Photometry of Bulge Red Clump Stars

Daisuke Kato, Koji Sugitani, Motohide Tamura, Nobuhiko Kusakabe, Noriyuki Matsunaga, Shogo Nishiyama, Shuji Sato, Takahiro Nagayama, Takahiro Naoi, Tetsuya Nagata

arxiv:astro-ph/0607408 v1 · 2006-07-18 · astro-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{PSTCEY5JYOQOWUM72REVEP5RDF}

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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	2026-05-18T04:28:58.338743Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

7ca62263a9c3a0eb519fd449523fb11944595c853144d35831d6ff43dc4b1864

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/0607408 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/0607408v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/0607408 · pith_short_12: PSTCEY5JYOQO · pith_short_16: PSTCEY5JYOQOWUM7 · pith_short_8: PSTCEY5J

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/PSTCEY5JYOQOWUM72REVEP5RDF \
  | 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: 7ca62263a9c3a0eb519fd449523fb11944595c853144d35831d6ff43dc4b1864

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f1c25190f0556d7aa5e2f133d47be9d40f081eea09433b7af30934d6854a41cb",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2006-07-18T10:09:12Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "1618d1b3806fb00d96232c6a12f055f746ac2990c8fa5786981fcb76d30ce57a"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/0607408",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}