Pith Number

pith:S6KVXMF5

pith:2018:S6KVXMF5HFQT4ODOUR4BEUR4WZ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The Near-Infrared Tip of the Red Giant Branch. II. An Absolute Calibration in the Large Magellanic Cloud

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, Wendy L. Freedman

arxiv:1803.01277 v1 · 2018-03-04 · astro-ph.GA · astro-ph.CO · astro-ph.SR

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{S6KVXMF5HFQT4ODOUR4BEUR4WZ}

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5 Replications open

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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	2026-05-18T00:16:59.072845Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

97955bb0bd39613e386ea47812523cb6693d342bacd8c68be64477448ee811c0

Aliases

arxiv: 1803.01277 · arxiv_version: 1803.01277v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1803.01277 · pith_short_12: S6KVXMF5HFQT · pith_short_16: S6KVXMF5HFQT4ODO · pith_short_8: S6KVXMF5

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/S6KVXMF5HFQT4ODOUR4BEUR4WZ \
  | 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: 97955bb0bd39613e386ea47812523cb6693d342bacd8c68be64477448ee811c0

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "14a5967aef1eda61a4d189dfcda681d904ce99dbf886633a70961c7cfdfd1dc6",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.CO",
      "astro-ph.SR"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2018-03-04T01:10:49Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e390e1ee3777c936519cdea39636a6235c84fc0d931b508d308eab76739bf48b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1803.01277",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}