Pith Number

pith:Q4NQPQTS

pith:2015:Q4NQPQTS2BRLPVIC2QVSOTI4V7

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Stellar Substructures around the Hercules Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy

A. D. Mackey, G. S. Da Costa, H. Jerjen, T. A. Roderick

arxiv:1503.03896 v1 · 2015-03-12 · astro-ph.GA

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{Q4NQPQTS2BRLPVIC2QVSOTI4V7}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T02:03:33.878680Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

871b07c272d062b7d502d42b274d1cafee58baa99f548fe062f48fd9a61fd561

Aliases

arxiv: 1503.03896 · arxiv_version: 1503.03896v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1503.03896 · pith_short_12: Q4NQPQTS2BRL · pith_short_16: Q4NQPQTS2BRLPVIC · pith_short_8: Q4NQPQTS

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/Q4NQPQTS2BRLPVIC2QVSOTI4V7 \
  | 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: 871b07c272d062b7d502d42b274d1cafee58baa99f548fe062f48fd9a61fd561

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "95c9c95a2a0c53682438e41ecaaf817fef21a20731f916fb4c146416315fbb30",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2015-03-12T21:24:55Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "95d204875e3e8dc1de4e5fcea886ec477bc0026ef19588b4ffc2cd9593b45e94"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1503.03896",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}