Pith Number

pith:PVJC6YHC

pith:2017:PVJC6YHCX7IDAFK3LWGNXXK4SZ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Upper Limit on the Milky Way Mass from the Orbit of the Sagittarius Dwarf Satellite

Abraham Loeb, Marion I. P. Dierickx

arxiv:1703.02137 v2 · 2017-03-06 · astro-ph.GA

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{PVJC6YHCX7IDAFK3LWGNXXK4SZ}

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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	2026-05-18T00:33:52.485876Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

7d522f60e2bfd030155b5d8cdbdd5c966cb76ced22005028da11d9c4b6675843

Aliases

arxiv: 1703.02137 · arxiv_version: 1703.02137v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1703.02137 · pith_short_12: PVJC6YHCX7ID · pith_short_16: PVJC6YHCX7IDAFK3 · pith_short_8: PVJC6YHC

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/PVJC6YHCX7IDAFK3LWGNXXK4SZ \
  | 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: 7d522f60e2bfd030155b5d8cdbdd5c966cb76ced22005028da11d9c4b6675843

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "2c941ecd41c1669dfb156b69791d1d728a8d12fe177370e9e581510a16053f89",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2017-03-06T22:42:19Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "9a4eb1c70f13907ac44d709a5a9a1daa9195be0e3b93daf7a293f112660687ef"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1703.02137",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}