Pith Number

pith:V2LHHOJF

pith:2026:V2LHHOJF6OZ3VHQVISMBVVHVUW

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The Rotation Curve of the Milky Way: State of the Art, the Keplerian Decline Debate, and Implications for Dark Matter

Alessandro Melchiorri, Ruchika

arxiv:2608.10189 v1 · 2026-08-10 · astro-ph.GA

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{V2LHHOJF6OZ3VHQVISMBVVHVUW}

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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	2026-08-12T00:23:00.688825Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ae9673b925f3b3ba9e1544981ad4f5a5b55041a498bbfcd77d5448524e62c53e

Aliases

arxiv: 2608.10189 · arxiv_version: 2608.10189v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2608.10189 · pith_short_12: V2LHHOJF6OZ3 · pith_short_16: V2LHHOJF6OZ3VHQV · pith_short_8: V2LHHOJF

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/V2LHHOJF6OZ3VHQVISMBVVHVUW \
  | 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: ae9673b925f3b3ba9e1544981ad4f5a5b55041a498bbfcd77d5448524e62c53e

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "61355f6a2454edc15c44ae2616a937456f2ff80bd4b6ed70f4d504a632c4b63d",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2026-08-10T20:06:03Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "1b700510c164ef9ecde8fead00c45120fbb59cf4c227bfc635978a1f5eb3c9e4"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2608.10189",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}