Pith Number

pith:UGSWJ53F

pith:2012:UGSWJ53FCKEFRKZ6M3L2P4CMRD

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The four leading arms of the Magellanic Cloud system

J. Kerp, M. S. Venzmer, P. M. W. Kalberla

arxiv:1208.4953 v1 · 2012-08-24 · astro-ph.CO · astro-ph.GA

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{UGSWJ53FCKEFRKZ6M3L2P4CMRD}

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4 Citations open

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	2026-05-18T00:29:54.173767Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a1a564f765128858ab3e66d7a7f04c88fe413e4c562ae9323d5d40663c22e18e

Aliases

arxiv: 1208.4953 · arxiv_version: 1208.4953v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1208.4953 · pith_short_12: UGSWJ53FCKEF · pith_short_16: UGSWJ53FCKEFRKZ6 · pith_short_8: UGSWJ53F

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/UGSWJ53FCKEFRKZ6M3L2P4CMRD \
  | 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: a1a564f765128858ab3e66d7a7f04c88fe413e4c562ae9323d5d40663c22e18e

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "1e441634e082c8424f28a1e1e2f972632b0992cd5ceec4962de122d1adf1df43",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.GA"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.CO",
    "submitted_at": "2012-08-24T11:25:43Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "73aba545b59569f0da3224354898ba1f386c142938a6d3002419d73d1555b536"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1208.4953",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}