Pith Number

pith:RIR4NYXV

pith:2012:RIR4NYXVAZCIZPPHXW4ZZ5HJM4

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The Origin of the Microlensing Events Observed Towards the LMC and the Stellar Counterpart of the Magellanic Stream

Abraham Loeb (CfA), Gurtina Besla (Columbia), Lars Hernquist (CfA)

arxiv:1205.4724 v2 · 2012-05-21 · astro-ph.CO

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First computed	2026-05-18T01:57:24.838825Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8a23c6e2f506448cbde7bdb99cf4e96735f05075117de44ed2f228a4798c78fd

Aliases

arxiv: 1205.4724 · arxiv_version: 1205.4724v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1205.4724 · pith_short_12: RIR4NYXVAZCI · pith_short_16: RIR4NYXVAZCIZPPH · pith_short_8: RIR4NYXV

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/RIR4NYXVAZCIZPPHXW4ZZ5HJM4 \
  | 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: 8a23c6e2f506448cbde7bdb99cf4e96735f05075117de44ed2f228a4798c78fd

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "5924f41a8ec130259c37f1324b293ec19e6b1b14461e6dc908d49ccce37efa9d",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.CO",
    "submitted_at": "2012-05-21T20:00:06Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "bd6d6e66ae4cc615a28f47fd7a1c0dab62b6659b2b4f7680491dfb3e0daf611f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1205.4724",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}