Pith Number

pith:RXMJZDMF

pith:2017:RXMJZDMFMDYPWN2MYPKSZOTRC2

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The Carnegie-Chicago Hubble Program. III. The Distance to NGC 1365 via the Tip of the Red Giant Branch

Andrew J. Monson, Barry F. Madore, Dylan Hatt, In Sung Jang, Jeffrey A. Rich, Mark Seibert, Myung Gyoon Lee, Rachael L. Beaton, Taylor J. Hoyt, Victoria Scowcroft, Wendy L. Freedman

arxiv:1703.10616 v2 · 2017-03-30 · astro-ph.GA

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{RXMJZDMFMDYPWN2MYPKSZOTRC2}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

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	2026-05-18T00:26:30.308267Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8dd89c8d8560f0fb374cc3d52cba71169a95e6aab7e4013bd159fa7e77ca7c2c

Aliases

arxiv: 1703.10616 · arxiv_version: 1703.10616v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1703.10616 · pith_short_12: RXMJZDMFMDYP · pith_short_16: RXMJZDMFMDYPWN2M · pith_short_8: RXMJZDMF

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/RXMJZDMFMDYPWN2MYPKSZOTRC2 \
  | 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: 8dd89c8d8560f0fb374cc3d52cba71169a95e6aab7e4013bd159fa7e77ca7c2c

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f680d1c126849689c9670133b530bfd822e4eaf1ddc44cfff8a2359f8e877f9b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2017-03-30T18:01:37Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "1a805c17cf6785a091a3b6282fe8258b449b05169395cc2aa009fb2228437c9a"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1703.10616",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}