Pith Number

pith:VDATHJ4Y

pith:2017:VDATHJ4YK6R7KVGTR3MJIWAYTX

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Implications of the large OVI columns around low-redshift $L_*$ galaxies

Jessica K. Werk, Matthew McQuinn

arxiv:1703.03422 v3 · 2017-03-09 · astro-ph.GA

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\pithnumber{VDATHJ4YK6R7KVGTR3MJIWAYTX}

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:11:00.608924Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a8c133a79857a3f554d38ed89458189df346b7a8cccd258d8a7c093435c6d7d4

Aliases

arxiv: 1703.03422 · arxiv_version: 1703.03422v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1703.03422 · pith_short_12: VDATHJ4YK6R7 · pith_short_16: VDATHJ4YK6R7KVGT · pith_short_8: VDATHJ4Y

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/VDATHJ4YK6R7KVGTR3MJIWAYTX \
  | 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: a8c133a79857a3f554d38ed89458189df346b7a8cccd258d8a7c093435c6d7d4

Canonical record JSON

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    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2017-03-09T19:00:52Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "2ce4754b936f43cc95e451c3736192ed95d7cf23ea257e38b40d5717960473b6"
  },
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  "source": {
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  }
}