Pith Number

pith:VP3QTABW

pith:2018:VP3QTABWHAFFLSC5HLSVP53O5S

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Establishing the Galactic Centre Distance Using VVV Bulge RR Lyrae Variables

D. G. Turner, D. Majaess, D. Minniti, G. Hajdu, I. D\'ek\'any, W. Gieren

arxiv:1805.04119 v1 · 2018-05-10 · astro-ph.GA

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\pithnumber{VP3QTABWHAFFLSC5HLSVP53O5S}

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:14:13.632478Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

abf7098036380a55c85d3ae557f76eec9cf97382b045c84ce9b2e06bdb45f4a0

Aliases

arxiv: 1805.04119 · arxiv_version: 1805.04119v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1805.04119 · pith_short_12: VP3QTABWHAFF · pith_short_16: VP3QTABWHAFFLSC5 · pith_short_8: VP3QTABW

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/VP3QTABWHAFFLSC5HLSVP53O5S \
  | 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: abf7098036380a55c85d3ae557f76eec9cf97382b045c84ce9b2e06bdb45f4a0

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e0d10b53c32680f48a9aa6f61be495bea1a256c43275d7caf4b52457ffe8ba2e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2018-05-10T18:01:31Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "6c7bb53a2c5ffa8c306b30d94fd0be2678a13bd6dd05c9d5d6bbb208d8b955d6"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1805.04119",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}