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pith:VEW4BZCK

pith:2006:VEW4BZCKCG6FF7PNABFXA2X3FV
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A direct empirical proof of the existence of dark matter

(2) KIPAC, (3) Department of Astronomy, (4) CfA, Anthony H. Gonzalez (3), Cambridge), Christine Jones (4), Dennis Zaritsky (1) ((1) Steward Observatory, Douglas Clowe (1), Gainesville, Marusa Bradac (2), Maxim Markevitch (4), Scott W. Randall (4), Stanford, Tucson

arxiv:astro-ph/0608407 v1 · 2006-08-19 · astro-ph

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First computed 2026-07-04T16:59:16.951041Z
Builder pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
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Schema pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a92dc0e44a11bc52fded004b706afb2d727315722a73183ef69088b4a1601dba

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/0608407 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/0608407v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/0608407 · pith_short_12: VEW4BZCKCG6F · pith_short_16: VEW4BZCKCG6FF7PN · pith_short_8: VEW4BZCK
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Verify this Pith Number yourself
curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/VEW4BZCKCG6FF7PNABFXA2X3FV \
  | 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: a92dc0e44a11bc52fded004b706afb2d727315722a73183ef69088b4a1601dba
Canonical record JSON
{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b5cd4d6a82a630067016e940abe5242f7e128327216eed70e2fb4afcc02825b8",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2006-08-19T17:51:03Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "a9e1919e1942363f47e40a48b6c1733cdf0d1cc4cb2b5ed964f6399a68a76e57"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/0608407",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}