Pith Number

pith:QTOWH2KQ

pith:2015:QTOWH2KQ2VTFS5G6CEPDEZKPA2

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Modeling GD-1 Gaps in a Milky-Way Potential

Raymond G. Carlberg

arxiv:1512.01620 v2 · 2015-12-05 · astro-ph.GA

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{QTOWH2KQ2VTFS5G6CEPDEZKPA2}

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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	2026-05-18T01:18:30.321861Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

84dd63e950d5665974de111e32654f068298574121ad8b101d54337319b63dca

Aliases

arxiv: 1512.01620 · arxiv_version: 1512.01620v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1512.01620 · pith_short_12: QTOWH2KQ2VTF · pith_short_16: QTOWH2KQ2VTFS5G6 · pith_short_8: QTOWH2KQ

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/QTOWH2KQ2VTFS5G6CEPDEZKPA2 \
  | 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: 84dd63e950d5665974de111e32654f068298574121ad8b101d54337319b63dca

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "2f17fe0d084269d6e2d315e32f5569fa14dded6ff1b7608fce1b07cf676da916",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2015-12-05T03:53:51Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "1aeb06b343781b450aeaf678705578ff84359329bd059283d07368da18e5c13d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1512.01620",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}