Pith Number

pith:R277FLRF

pith:2002:R277FLRFRUR26C7BTIY7JISVPQ

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Measuring Distances and Probing the Unresolved Stellar Populations of Galaxies Using Infrared Surface Brightness Fluctuations

(2) Hawaii/IfA, (3) Arizona, (4) Miami, (5) JHU), Brian J. Barris (2), Edward A. Ajhar (4), John L. Tonry (2), John P. Blakeslee (5) ((1) Gemini, Joseph B. Jensen (1), Marcia J. Rieke (3), Michael C. Liu (2), Rodger I. Thompson (3)

arxiv:astro-ph/0210129 v1 · 2002-10-05 · astro-ph

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First computed	2026-05-18T04:23:01.113438Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8ebff2ae258d23af0be19a31f4a2557c33422e6edc8b25b02d2b391318254f2a

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/0210129 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/0210129v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/0210129 · pith_short_12: R277FLRFRUR2 · pith_short_16: R277FLRFRUR26C7B · pith_short_8: R277FLRF

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/R277FLRFRUR26C7BTIY7JISVPQ \
  | 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: 8ebff2ae258d23af0be19a31f4a2557c33422e6edc8b25b02d2b391318254f2a

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "45e38f72df43649fa25085c2027363b1275956e408f857edb6eccb1e3e6a5d0f",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2002-10-05T01:43:18Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "c384a70f5af26e191a147698defacaba6434b21f52c0a3482edcc82a07ed6494"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/0210129",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}