Pith Number

pith:SS4NG6XQ

pith:2017:SS4NG6XQYVT3RDENFCEJBLRDOD

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The "Building Blocks" of Stellar Halos

Else Starkenburg, Julio F. Navarro, Kyle A. Oman

arxiv:1708.00929 v1 · 2017-08-02 · astro-ph.GA

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{SS4NG6XQYVT3RDENFCEJBLRDOD}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

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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	2026-05-18T00:38:41.138232Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

94b8d37af0c567b88c8d288890ae2370d9562f8a44315949320ed481901922fc

Aliases

arxiv: 1708.00929 · arxiv_version: 1708.00929v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1708.00929 · pith_short_12: SS4NG6XQYVT3 · pith_short_16: SS4NG6XQYVT3RDEN · pith_short_8: SS4NG6XQ

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/SS4NG6XQYVT3RDENFCEJBLRDOD \
  | 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: 94b8d37af0c567b88c8d288890ae2370d9562f8a44315949320ed481901922fc

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "79ef1fec7f20d84bb2366ff23a9bb22855986a9eb1bb119365b703b9b4637f21",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2017-08-02T21:04:29Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "8be8ff597ebc3ebe001966de7388aa5107da11dbaec4e9088058e2826bdd81a2"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1708.00929",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}