Pith Number

pith:V6LM5JD2

pith:2010:V6LM5JD2EIXNUMMOGZMQNURUP5

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The most luminous stars in the Galaxy and the Magellanic Clouds

Adriane Liermann, Andreas Barniske, Diana Pasemann, Lidia M. Oskinova, Ute Ruehling, Wolf-Rainer Hamann

arxiv:1012.1875 v1 · 2010-12-08 · astro-ph.SR

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{V6LM5JD2EIXNUMMOGZMQNURUP5}

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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	2026-05-18T04:33:49.436806Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

af96cea47a222eda318e365906d2347f46cc5c4d169f5ed1eb6ca7d5cc4c0b6f

Aliases

arxiv: 1012.1875 · arxiv_version: 1012.1875v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1012.1875 · pith_short_12: V6LM5JD2EIXN · pith_short_16: V6LM5JD2EIXNUMMO · pith_short_8: V6LM5JD2

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/V6LM5JD2EIXNUMMOGZMQNURUP5 \
  | 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: af96cea47a222eda318e365906d2347f46cc5c4d169f5ed1eb6ca7d5cc4c0b6f

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "060829adcfb48316c50a06aa845be66a81d4e81228844de3b6d7f8a9751b276b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.SR",
    "submitted_at": "2010-12-08T21:29:28Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "aa14bfa0fda0ca7b197515c78f9056502696b5454d1fbd2814db06d9928c9db5"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1012.1875",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}