Pith Number

pith:VRFNW7MX

pith:2014:VRFNW7MXGYSEY3DJ6XUVDR4W72

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The Gould Belt, the de Vaucouleurs-Dolidze Belt, and the Orion Arm

A. T. Bajkova, V. V. Bobylev

arxiv:1411.2915 v1 · 2014-11-11 · astro-ph.GA

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VRFNW7MXGYSEY3DJ6XUVDR4W72}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

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	2026-05-18T02:37:52.722190Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ac4adb7d9736244c6c69f5e951c796fe84eb684d52b60adeb2d2d05c3b96fc95

Aliases

arxiv: 1411.2915 · arxiv_version: 1411.2915v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1411.2915 · pith_short_12: VRFNW7MXGYSE · pith_short_16: VRFNW7MXGYSEY3DJ · pith_short_8: VRFNW7MX

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/VRFNW7MXGYSEY3DJ6XUVDR4W72 \
  | 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: ac4adb7d9736244c6c69f5e951c796fe84eb684d52b60adeb2d2d05c3b96fc95

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "93170e9b96b9c64cfb6f776b577b3822c44af477950bc8f9fa7262989dddbbe5",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2014-11-11T18:49:08Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "66155096df031fba524b432e8ee397ceede0d32d71ff3e0433fab65361b1129a"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1411.2915",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}