Pith Number

pith:VMWRCIPX

pith:2014:VMWRCIPXMAG45UVVJMS6KPATOR

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Mapping the Milky Way bulge at high resolution: the 3D dust extinction, CO, and X factor maps

B.Q. Chen, B.W. Jiang, D. Minniti, K. Torii, M. Rejkuba, M. Schultheis, O.A. Gonzalez, R. Enokiya, Y. Fukui

arxiv:1405.0503 v1 · 2014-05-02 · astro-ph.GA · astro-ph.SR

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VMWRCIPXMAG45UVVJMS6KPATOR}

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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	2026-05-18T01:43:20.362880Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ab2d1121f7600dced2b54b25e53c1374739a6289bf0e60f6577640176a22dcd2

Aliases

arxiv: 1405.0503 · arxiv_version: 1405.0503v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1405.0503 · pith_short_12: VMWRCIPXMAG4 · pith_short_16: VMWRCIPXMAG45UVV · pith_short_8: VMWRCIPX

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/VMWRCIPXMAG45UVVJMS6KPATOR \
  | 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: ab2d1121f7600dced2b54b25e53c1374739a6289bf0e60f6577640176a22dcd2

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "4781632ea4a03b269f07764bfff50a4a6cb480ca01dac42768e170dcb22abc4a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.SR"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2014-05-02T20:17:52Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e3f35e932dbbc08d198ecf4f7858326713557a2d0be76288a1785e980d5fbe5f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1405.0503",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}