Pith Number

pith:VN2I6N36

pith:2017:VN2I6N36BK5WY6OCNWC4OYDTHC

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Reionization of the Milky Way, M31, and their satellites I: reionization history and star formation

Alexander Knebe, Gustavo Yepes, Ilian T. Iliev, Keri L. Dixon, Noam Libeskind, Stefan Gottl\"ober, Yehuda Hoffman

arxiv:1703.06140 v1 · 2017-03-17 · astro-ph.GA · astro-ph.CO

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VN2I6N36BK5WY6OCNWC4OYDTHC}

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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	2026-05-18T00:21:14.514914Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ab748f377e0abb6c79c26d85c7607338af30501d228f324a8d5536cffe6473fd

Aliases

arxiv: 1703.06140 · arxiv_version: 1703.06140v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1703.06140 · pith_short_12: VN2I6N36BK5W · pith_short_16: VN2I6N36BK5WY6OC · pith_short_8: VN2I6N36

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/VN2I6N36BK5WY6OCNWC4OYDTHC \
  | 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: ab748f377e0abb6c79c26d85c7607338af30501d228f324a8d5536cffe6473fd

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d3cf58aaa03764126c40977adce7fede22e0e039897db56802aa442c240b6e0f",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.CO"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2017-03-17T18:00:01Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f83568c892e4788ea89bed3d8b5c7543dc3a150f27da2f2333814f2a5824fa00"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1703.06140",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}