Pith Number

pith:R5WC47FC

pith:2013:R5WC47FCVGAGMUBGSRFLX6TSBZ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Dust Properties in the Galactic Bulge

J. Bernard-Salas, S. R. Pottasch

arxiv:1301.3732 v1 · 2013-01-16 · astro-ph.GA

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{R5WC47FCVGAGMUBGSRFLX6TSBZ}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

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	2026-05-18T01:52:06.621127Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8f6c2e7ca2a980665026944abbfa720e654dd1e2391bef59c4623f1418816ac5

Aliases

arxiv: 1301.3732 · arxiv_version: 1301.3732v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1301.3732 · pith_short_12: R5WC47FCVGAG · pith_short_16: R5WC47FCVGAGMUBG · pith_short_8: R5WC47FC

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/R5WC47FCVGAGMUBGSRFLX6TSBZ \
  | 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: 8f6c2e7ca2a980665026944abbfa720e654dd1e2391bef59c4623f1418816ac5

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d751f61025ca8dfb9619e5cb332e0b039dfa76be863919358835b21425da96d2",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2013-01-16T15:52:24Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "aa2c836a97266c508a2b627dacd0aefd5edd7e2840dda822f986a6b51c061107"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1301.3732",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}