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pith:TNB7AJ4G

pith:2019:TNB7AJ4GPTMU5F6LHWGGRJZXOT

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Using the Tip of the Red Giant Branch as a Distance Indicator in the Near Infrared

Andrew E. Dolphin, Evan D. Skillman, Kristen. B. W. McQuinn, Martha Boyer

arxiv:1904.01571 v2 · 2019-04-02 · astro-ph.GA

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Consistent Calibration of the Tip of the Red Giant Branch in the Large Magellanic Cloud on the Hubble Space Telescope Photometric System and a Re-determination of the Hubble Constant

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First computed	2026-07-04T23:50:16.626051Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

9b43f027867cd94e97cb3d8c68a73774c0900a2b788e6acbb428dd3cb605e654

Aliases

arxiv: 1904.01571 · arxiv_version: 1904.01571v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1904.01571 · pith_short_12: TNB7AJ4GPTMU · pith_short_16: TNB7AJ4GPTMU5F6L · pith_short_8: TNB7AJ4G

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/TNB7AJ4GPTMU5F6LHWGGRJZXOT \
  | 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: 9b43f027867cd94e97cb3d8c68a73774c0900a2b788e6acbb428dd3cb605e654

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d9444ea6fbff7db3e20e7a0244834d3bb119b294398964cc1e8670a67e245e6a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2019-04-02T17:59:12Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "6ff1fb3e5fbcab2dc981ef77f74dc243dc18aad61d520f35078b5ef1e9ff8aae"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1904.01571",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}