Pith Number

pith:RLWUWPVJ

pith:2011:RLWUWPVJMPEBNYI6ZHHVONUQJO

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Mapping the X-Shaped Milky Way Bulge

Andrew McWilliam, Dante Minniti, Manuela Zoccali, Oscar A. Gonzalez, Roberto K. Saito, Vanessa Hill

arxiv:1107.5360 v1 · 2011-07-27 · astro-ph.GA

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{RLWUWPVJMPEBNYI6ZHHVONUQJO}

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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	2026-05-18T02:01:09.313902Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8aed4b3ea963c816e11ec9cf5736904b80244dc11db2c2a7ef8ade03bb0efbcc

Aliases

arxiv: 1107.5360 · arxiv_version: 1107.5360v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1107.5360 · pith_short_12: RLWUWPVJMPEB · pith_short_16: RLWUWPVJMPEBNYI6 · pith_short_8: RLWUWPVJ

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/RLWUWPVJMPEBNYI6ZHHVONUQJO \
  | 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: 8aed4b3ea963c816e11ec9cf5736904b80244dc11db2c2a7ef8ade03bb0efbcc

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d0b2ea481142de4259d0301abaf914a6bc7ed32704e8a6a6524044f0698eda53",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2011-07-27T00:50:17Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "04733596158919999d9779631d14fcac7b14963aa44ce6743a28ba5af76ac83c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1107.5360",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}