Pith Number

pith:VC6YXW4K

pith:2018:VC6YXW4KQLYNDCFZ3MRNZCTLI5

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

SiO Masers in the Galactic Bulge and Disk: Kinematics from the BAaDE Survey

A.C. Trapp, L.O. Sjouwerman, M. Claussen, M.C. Stroh, M.R. Morris, R.M. Rich, Y.M. Pihlstrom

arxiv:1805.04522 v1 · 2018-05-11 · astro-ph.GA

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VC6YXW4KQLYNDCFZ3MRNZCTLI5}

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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	2026-05-18T00:10:37.642568Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a8bd8bdb8a82f0d188b9db22dc8a6b476ab1ad3d2c4ae38fbf2f8dfc8903ca27

Aliases

arxiv: 1805.04522 · arxiv_version: 1805.04522v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1805.04522 · pith_short_12: VC6YXW4KQLYN · pith_short_16: VC6YXW4KQLYNDCFZ · pith_short_8: VC6YXW4K

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/VC6YXW4KQLYNDCFZ3MRNZCTLI5 \
  | 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: a8bd8bdb8a82f0d188b9db22dc8a6b476ab1ad3d2c4ae38fbf2f8dfc8903ca27

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "2c211bef4b595c08508abdb37edbc34658aff45a853d4059c763ad5b9823e98e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2018-05-11T18:00:01Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "97e0c53922483b682326c7be61e8cf60b2565d8ee47cf00925fa6b514b2745a4"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1805.04522",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}