Pith Number

pith:VG3T4RHM

pith:2014:VG3T4RHMPVOTQEJTW2SUXDFIY5

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Spectroscopy of the three distant Andromedan satellites Cassiopeia III, Lacerta I, and Perseus I

Annette M. N. Ferguson, Edouard J. Bernard, Eric F. Bell, Eugene A. Magnier, Heather Flewelling, John L. Tonry, Kenneth C. Chambers, Michelle L. M. Collins, Nicholas Kaiser, Nicolas F. Martin, Richard J. Wainscoat, R. Michael Rich, Rodrigo A. Ibata

arxiv:1408.5130 v1 · 2014-08-21 · astro-ph.GA

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VG3T4RHMPVOTQEJTW2SUXDFIY5}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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	2026-05-18T01:42:15.784173Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a9b73e44ec7d5d381133b6a54b8ca8c77fab404a5ba436dcf2c7ebe3bc6ebd40

Aliases

arxiv: 1408.5130 · arxiv_version: 1408.5130v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1408.5130 · pith_short_12: VG3T4RHMPVOT · pith_short_16: VG3T4RHMPVOTQEJT · pith_short_8: VG3T4RHM

Agent API

Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/VG3T4RHMPVOTQEJTW2SUXDFIY5 \
  | 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: a9b73e44ec7d5d381133b6a54b8ca8c77fab404a5ba436dcf2c7ebe3bc6ebd40

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f5f88c79a6901a48b81778561974a25e838d731aff575551c03e49548f18b457",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2014-08-21T20:00:03Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "17ee53f738661b7da0a40eaeb8d276d1443d16d7d51bff9ccaf87d439d16b858"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1408.5130",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}