Pith Number

pith:VGBNMTAD

pith:2016:VGBNMTAD3CJ2EO7OG67YELAMT2

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The Clouds are breaking: tracing the Magellanic system with Gaia DR1 Mira variables

Alis J. Deason (Durham), Denis Erkal, Dougal Mackey (ANU), Sergey E. Koposov (Cambridge), Vasily Belokurov

arxiv:1611.04600 v2 · 2016-11-14 · astro-ph.GA

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\pithnumber{VGBNMTAD3CJ2EO7OG67YELAMT2}

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:48:16.257669Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a982d64c03d893a23bee37bf822c0c9e8e6268b5dba9b8c7b33ec0916ba5b985

Aliases

arxiv: 1611.04600 · arxiv_version: 1611.04600v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1611.04600 · pith_short_12: VGBNMTAD3CJ2 · pith_short_16: VGBNMTAD3CJ2EO7O · pith_short_8: VGBNMTAD

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/VGBNMTAD3CJ2EO7OG67YELAMT2 \
  | 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: a982d64c03d893a23bee37bf822c0c9e8e6268b5dba9b8c7b33ec0916ba5b985

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "7a7a231239b0e633368f97a751d0ecaffc0315fe68fd8d6c0ddd39a32825286d",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2016-11-14T21:00:02Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d71dbdceb8f00337fb44bf0c12a19933ff857f007ecf964f36245b5025e510b4"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1611.04600",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}