Pith Number

pith:STJJ2WZV

pith:2017:STJJ2WZVF72ENNSOCF56OS345P

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Resolving the Discrepancy of Distance to M60, a Giant Elliptical Galaxy in Virgo

In Sung Jang, Myung Gyoon Lee

arxiv:1705.02389 v2 · 2017-05-05 · astro-ph.GA

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{STJJ2WZVF72ENNSOCF56OS345P}

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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	2026-05-18T00:43:25.141639Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

94d29d5b352ff446b64e117be74b7cebde94b5c5a15a874035584a224fd10226

Aliases

arxiv: 1705.02389 · arxiv_version: 1705.02389v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1705.02389 · pith_short_12: STJJ2WZVF72E · pith_short_16: STJJ2WZVF72ENNSO · pith_short_8: STJJ2WZV

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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/STJJ2WZVF72ENNSOCF56OS345P \
  | 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: 94d29d5b352ff446b64e117be74b7cebde94b5c5a15a874035584a224fd10226

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "84597c5ec6813a9fbac2b7417d262deee20598a0628c373881a2c3a5b2b46135",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2017-05-05T20:26:49Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "3c23721962185f12a87852c76003b0ebe3c5edf8debac022678c41f0b0782adb"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1705.02389",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}