Pith Number

pith:QGNVDEK6

pith:2016:QGNVDEK6BO3PU2ATUTFTT5OZ6S

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

A centrally heated dark halo for our Galaxy

David R. Cole, James Binney

arxiv:1610.07818 v1 · 2016-10-25 · astro-ph.GA

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{QGNVDEK6BO3PU2ATUTFTT5OZ6S}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T00:55:06.785456Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

819b51915e0bb6fa6813a4cb39f5d9f4ab9fdb5ab05553807337c289e2c42384

Aliases

arxiv: 1610.07818 · arxiv_version: 1610.07818v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1610.07818 · pith_short_12: QGNVDEK6BO3P · pith_short_16: QGNVDEK6BO3PU2AT · pith_short_8: QGNVDEK6

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/QGNVDEK6BO3PU2ATUTFTT5OZ6S \
  | 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: 819b51915e0bb6fa6813a4cb39f5d9f4ab9fdb5ab05553807337c289e2c42384

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "5cb0001a606500c13dfc936c0cc66ce7f57ae808fde5c6b77bfa767ad872ce3f",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2016-10-25T10:16:27Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "179b703c95ba8cfc7c95c425d47affd8e7daf55373329b0cb59979a1090b125a"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1610.07818",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}