Pith Number

pith:TH3JZJKC

pith:2008:TH3JZJKCNUGFQF3XXCWF5VXVK3

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Dynamical effects of the long bar in the Milky Way

Chris Flynn, Esko Gardner, Kimmo A. Innanen

arxiv:0808.0498 v2 · 2008-08-04 · astro-ph · astro-ph.GA

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{TH3JZJKCNUGFQF3XXCWF5VXVK3}

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T04:40:34.191007Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

99f69ca5426d0c581777b8ac5ed6f556ce9dc6195b46b0429457e4eeeebc3705

Aliases

arxiv: 0808.0498 · arxiv_version: 0808.0498v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.0808.0498 · pith_short_12: TH3JZJKCNUGF · pith_short_16: TH3JZJKCNUGFQF3X · pith_short_8: TH3JZJKC

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/TH3JZJKCNUGFQF3XXCWF5VXVK3 \
  | 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: 99f69ca5426d0c581777b8ac5ed6f556ce9dc6195b46b0429457e4eeeebc3705

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "3269c07b9ed6ad94f3e6b210dd77cd22fd638dcc45817dfa4d3a553700948ad9",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.GA"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2008-08-04T20:02:57Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "71507801225adb82ea61dc08c901439854f5e5c20d0276bed4d388b90b4dd1fa"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "0808.0498",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}