Pith Number

pith:UKFMAEFK

pith:2014:UKFMAEFKGBLIXEZWA3GIH22SCL

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Milky Way demographics with the VVV Survey III. Evidence for a Great Dark Lane in the 157 Million Star Bulge Color-Magnitude Diagram

D. Minniti, I. Dekany, J. Alonso-Garcia, J. P. Emerson, M. Catelan, M. Hempel, M. Rejkuba, M. Schultheis, M. Zoccali, O. A. Gonzalez, P. W. Lucas, R. Benjamin, R. K. Saito

arxiv:1409.5836 v1 · 2014-09-19 · astro-ph.GA

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{UKFMAEFKGBLIXEZWA3GIH22SCL}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

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	2026-05-18T02:34:51.695185Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a28ac010aa30568b933606cc83eb5212e44622b94ccbf7cc4e1580ef1730f2c4

Aliases

arxiv: 1409.5836 · arxiv_version: 1409.5836v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1409.5836 · pith_short_12: UKFMAEFKGBLI · pith_short_16: UKFMAEFKGBLIXEZW · pith_short_8: UKFMAEFK

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/UKFMAEFKGBLIXEZWA3GIH22SCL \
  | 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: a28ac010aa30568b933606cc83eb5212e44622b94ccbf7cc4e1580ef1730f2c4

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "377581e9131b4790dbc2e4f6d947bfe491f0b0a06175a83c82dc602cc98a5486",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2014-09-19T23:56:03Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "0954d4554f2ac4a201289881ee9cea197679ac81711d3462222d3891a052508d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1409.5836",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}