Pith Number

pith:V6WZWGPZ

pith:1995:V6WZWGPZUOLDRJQ7SGDK5JMZBO

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

M Giant Kinematics in Off-Axis Fields Between 150 and 300 Parsecs from the Galactic Center

Don Terndrup, John Carr, Kris Sellgren, Robert Blum

arxiv:astro-ph/9503059 v1 · 1995-03-15 · astro-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{V6WZWGPZUOLDRJQ7SGDK5JMZBO}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T01:07:41.753151Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

afad9b19f9a39638a61f9186aea5990b840a89323c4af52ed60920324ca5d9db

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/9503059 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/9503059v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/9503059 · pith_short_12: V6WZWGPZUOLD · pith_short_16: V6WZWGPZUOLDRJQ7 · pith_short_8: V6WZWGPZ

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/V6WZWGPZUOLDRJQ7SGDK5JMZBO \
  | 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: afad9b19f9a39638a61f9186aea5990b840a89323c4af52ed60920324ca5d9db

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c5adb95fa0d8baa045049fef04d74c8c5d0da8e1528291c23c7839bdcd8e304f",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1995-03-15T15:19:36Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "752725e0b7e61c965e11aaddd462beb0b5262e2d645fde28ec00acba8a6ccf87"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/9503059",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}