Pith Number

pith:Q5Y7A2UN

pith:2014:Q5Y7A2UN46GJU5J3RFD62JRZQK

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The Bones of the Milky Way

Alyssa A. Goodman, Andreas Burkert, Christopher N. Beaumont, James Jackson, Jens Kauffmann, Joao Alves, Michelle A. Borkin, Robert A. Benjamin, Rowan J. Smith, Thomas M. Dame, Thomas Robitaille

arxiv:1408.0001 v1 · 2014-07-31 · astro-ph.GA

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{Q5Y7A2UN46GJU5J3RFD62JRZQK}

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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	2026-05-18T01:42:26.571418Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8771f06a8de78c9a753b8947ed2639829f69e9e73645f21a739ac12c2b7e4ce0

Aliases

arxiv: 1408.0001 · arxiv_version: 1408.0001v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1408.0001 · pith_short_12: Q5Y7A2UN46GJ · pith_short_16: Q5Y7A2UN46GJU5J3 · pith_short_8: Q5Y7A2UN

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/Q5Y7A2UN46GJU5J3RFD62JRZQK \
  | 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: 8771f06a8de78c9a753b8947ed2639829f69e9e73645f21a739ac12c2b7e4ce0

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "88a6ad948dbb84ee86ba8e7cdf5cf39c6ff66835f59f437017f140fac05d351a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2014-07-31T15:03:52Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "8ab5f335bfd7d53126be30d42251ca205d711fe5edc80921fa53514b3033fafc"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1408.0001",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}