Pith Number

pith:VHVAPZAE

pith:2016:VHVAPZAECA4AAPO4I4E2GVJJMW

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

An Ultra-Faint Galaxy Candidate Discovered in Early Data from the Magellanic Satellites Survey

A. Drlica-Wagner, A. Pieres, A. R. Walker, B. C. Conn, B. Yanny, D. J. James, D. L. Nidever, D. L. Tucker, E. Neilsen, G. S. Stringfellow, J. D. Simon, K. A. G. Olsen, K. Bechtol, K. Kuehn, M. D. Johnson, M. R. L. Cioni, N. E. D. No\"el, N. F. Martin, R. A. Gruendl, R. H. Wechsler, R. P. van der Marel, S. Allam, T. S. Li, Y.-Y. Mao

arxiv:1609.02148 v2 · 2016-09-07 · astro-ph.GA · astro-ph.CO · astro-ph.HE

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VHVAPZAECA4AAPO4I4E2GVJJMW}

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:56:07.112957Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a9ea07e4041038003ddc4709a355296590b0f192e9aaaf8910fe7e57a1f0fb15

Aliases

arxiv: 1609.02148 · arxiv_version: 1609.02148v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1609.02148 · pith_short_12: VHVAPZAECA4A · pith_short_16: VHVAPZAECA4AAPO4 · pith_short_8: VHVAPZAE

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/VHVAPZAECA4AAPO4I4E2GVJJMW \
  | 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: a9ea07e4041038003ddc4709a355296590b0f192e9aaaf8910fe7e57a1f0fb15

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "1824ea3ce0911de0c4c1fffb13d93c3f9fa50c55f53517631155e185c055d2c4",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.CO",
      "astro-ph.HE"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2016-09-07T20:00:01Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b4867e98aa23db71c76ad3fd1a7ad832ec872bc2fc85cef87028c1c445a7d3a5"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1609.02148",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}