Pith Number

pith:QP6OTYCC

pith:2012:QP6OTYCCP35KYL6X4FQKWBQARE

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The Metallicity of the Monoceros Stream

Aaron M. Meisner, Anna Frebel, Douglas P. Finkbeiner, Mario Juric

arxiv:1205.0807 v1 · 2012-05-03 · astro-ph.GA

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{QP6OTYCCP35KYL6X4FQKWBQARE}

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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	2026-05-18T03:47:00.920059Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

83fce9e0427efaac2fd7e160ab06008939d966889aa22ecf5fe241c0237b8874

Aliases

arxiv: 1205.0807 · arxiv_version: 1205.0807v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1205.0807 · pith_short_12: QP6OTYCCP35K · pith_short_16: QP6OTYCCP35KYL6X · pith_short_8: QP6OTYCC

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/QP6OTYCCP35KYL6X4FQKWBQARE \
  | 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: 83fce9e0427efaac2fd7e160ab06008939d966889aa22ecf5fe241c0237b8874

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "4102d44a537c2030927b36461ef584d08c0763bb696ca4b1e7180c3d855fd484",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2012-05-03T20:00:01Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b768d21ab126e514b937d1faefbd037921977b0bc803ae11df9b1f4aa0221869"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1205.0807",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}