Pith Number

pith:VCNXPOXK

pith:2016:VCNXPOXK5EUELDPYYZJJNZSXI2

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The Distance and Properties of Hydrogen Clouds in the Leading Arm of the Magellanic System

B. Q. For, K. Bekki, L. Staveley-Smith, N. M. McClure-Griffiths, T. Westmeier

arxiv:1605.09504 v1 · 2016-05-31 · astro-ph.GA

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VCNXPOXK5EUELDPYYZJJNZSXI2}

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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	2026-05-18T01:12:26.341668Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a89b77baeae928458df8c65296e657469c3d890e2e7b4d59b96915aad7558152

Aliases

arxiv: 1605.09504 · arxiv_version: 1605.09504v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1605.09504 · pith_short_12: VCNXPOXK5EUE · pith_short_16: VCNXPOXK5EUELDPY · pith_short_8: VCNXPOXK

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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/VCNXPOXK5EUELDPYYZJJNZSXI2 \
  | 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: a89b77baeae928458df8c65296e657469c3d890e2e7b4d59b96915aad7558152

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c08fc9feffdaa667dd5153c0aa8ab92a25b45f63fc39c2c77b1ed2d37e8f7968",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2016-05-31T06:19:16Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f34fde0599dd67bbe0c71829c72180cef27374daa3741e4865452632433fdbf7"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1605.09504",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}