Pith Number

pith:V2LGOIOI

pith:2016:V2LGOIOIRYQ5QP47U6XF33R2AO

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Tracing dense and diffuse neutral hydrogen in the halo of the Milky Way

Felix J. Lockman, Naomi M. McClure-Griffiths, Vanessa A. Moss

arxiv:1611.08329 v2 · 2016-11-25 · astro-ph.GA

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{V2LGOIOIRYQ5QP47U6XF33R2AO}

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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	2026-05-18T00:52:37.656294Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ae966721c88e21d83f9fa7ae5dee3a03a65dac29cfee50f3e0bbe048660ea188

Aliases

arxiv: 1611.08329 · arxiv_version: 1611.08329v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1611.08329 · pith_short_12: V2LGOIOIRYQ5 · pith_short_16: V2LGOIOIRYQ5QP47 · pith_short_8: V2LGOIOI

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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/V2LGOIOIRYQ5QP47U6XF33R2AO \
  | 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: ae966721c88e21d83f9fa7ae5dee3a03a65dac29cfee50f3e0bbe048660ea188

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "3793cad6cfc13ac21e394d8110c907d297ecc9ed4167d6683a925ed8440c3664",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2016-11-25T00:41:56Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "023a76828d010d55f247191783e026d73ca66edd978d53c0cdfbe0a0f10982d1"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1611.08329",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}