Pith Number

pith:VFDAC7XU

pith:2005:VFDAC7XUUCPOWJMJHJZTAPK3UI

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The Proper Motion of the Large Magellanic Cloud using HST

A.J. Drake (Caltech), Charles Alcock (CfA), Kem H. Cook (LLNL), M. Geha (Carnegie Observatories), Nitya Kallivayalil (CfA), Roeland P. van der Marel (STScI), Tim Axelrod (Steward Observatory)

arxiv:astro-ph/0508457 v1 · 2005-08-22 · astro-ph

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\pithnumber{VFDAC7XUUCPOWJMJHJZTAPK3UI}

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The VMC survey -- LV. The coherent expansion of the SMC

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-04T17:15:02.641349Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a946017ef4a09eeb25893a73303d5ba21d3e548548dcf20fe3eae9b3a87d8c69

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/0508457 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/0508457v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/0508457 · pith_short_12: VFDAC7XUUCPO · pith_short_16: VFDAC7XUUCPOWJMJ · pith_short_8: VFDAC7XU

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/VFDAC7XUUCPOWJMJHJZTAPK3UI \
  | 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: a946017ef4a09eeb25893a73303d5ba21d3e548548dcf20fe3eae9b3a87d8c69

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c61d680827b1f39f556c50ecccf7cbb869bd12aff6f8c52944e4e5d0417bd19b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2005-08-22T16:04:50Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "8726b491dc79a182d0991c7f246176ca9ba5a7ab3b2bdc9b96edc4f9d3ba4004"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/0508457",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}