Pith Number

pith:RGDYZS2S

pith:2004:RGDYZS2S44V4VCZLDVFM7A7TIY

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Self-consistent distance determinations for Lutz-Kelker-limited samples

2) ((1) STScI, (2) ESA), J. Ma\'iz Apell\'aniz (1

arxiv:astro-ph/0411346 v1 · 2004-11-12 · astro-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{RGDYZS2S44V4VCZLDVFM7A7TIY}

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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	2026-07-04T14:13:53.451658Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

89878ccb52e72bca8b2b1d4acf83f34630af0e6b56b17dc1bcddc921eafeb0a1

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/0411346 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/0411346v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/0411346 · pith_short_12: RGDYZS2S44V4 · pith_short_16: RGDYZS2S44V4VCZL · pith_short_8: RGDYZS2S

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/RGDYZS2S44V4VCZLDVFM7A7TIY \
  | 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: 89878ccb52e72bca8b2b1d4acf83f34630af0e6b56b17dc1bcddc921eafeb0a1

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "ec28b0f80340746a4696bcc04bf0851063344d5152778c22b77dc65b742fb3a4",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2004-11-12T19:01:21Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "c592995046fe0d889c7343c3fcd5e666e3e91675b93c5de6faffe4838ff94f51"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/0411346",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}