Pith Number

pith:QFUW6M4S

pith:2012:QFUW6M4SA3UVKB33EQTT2TPYSG

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Searching for Non-axisymmetries in NGC 6503: A Weak End-on Bar

Cameron A. Arsenault, J. A. Sellwood, Joshua D. Simon, Kristine Spekkens, Michael McDonald, Peter Teuben, Rachel Kuzio de Naray

arxiv:1209.4653 v1 · 2012-09-20 · astro-ph.CO

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{QFUW6M4SA3UVKB33EQTT2TPYSG}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

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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	2026-05-18T01:54:20.442736Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

81696f339206e955077b24273d4df891a79a7383b699f1a0560694d9549f60c1

Aliases

arxiv: 1209.4653 · arxiv_version: 1209.4653v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1209.4653 · pith_short_12: QFUW6M4SA3UV · pith_short_16: QFUW6M4SA3UVKB33 · pith_short_8: QFUW6M4S

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/QFUW6M4SA3UVKB33EQTT2TPYSG \
  | 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: 81696f339206e955077b24273d4df891a79a7383b699f1a0560694d9549f60c1

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "5446cdddeb37121b1f6f1481c15e734501aeb3862b9085db3e5d802c7355b942",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.CO",
    "submitted_at": "2012-09-20T20:01:04Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "c0e99446c0aaa8813e961e3295e77d6644281aa1b94ef6e944818a850934880c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1209.4653",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}