Pith Number

pith:VFKP4K46

pith:2018:VFKP4K46LLM2B5WLOUTO2W4PHD

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Magnetic fields in the Galactic halo restrict fountain-driven recycling and accretion

Asger Gr{\o}nnow, Joss Bland-Hawthorn, Thor Tepper-Garc\'ia

arxiv:1805.03903 v3 · 2018-05-10 · astro-ph.GA

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VFKP4K46LLM2B5WLOUTO2W4PHD}

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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	2026-05-18T00:03:48.979414Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a954fe2b9e5ad9a0f6cb7526ed5b8f38e759b599cdacc549f5feea843dddee1f

Aliases

arxiv: 1805.03903 · arxiv_version: 1805.03903v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1805.03903 · pith_short_12: VFKP4K46LLM2 · pith_short_16: VFKP4K46LLM2B5WL · pith_short_8: VFKP4K46

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/VFKP4K46LLM2B5WLOUTO2W4PHD \
  | 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: a954fe2b9e5ad9a0f6cb7526ed5b8f38e759b599cdacc549f5feea843dddee1f

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "951e51e44c73a0fe01a250b4adc41dbb842a4dc7adda11e0a2ee26e0d0d30c19",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2018-05-10T09:33:20Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "eb2dc518af816fbb2b11c31363a7ccd41392b9680362c798f447d2e84f58ab99"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1805.03903",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}