Pith Number

pith:VTCCSGNL

pith:1996:VTCCSGNL6FQX2YVTNEEWJJSRB5

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The Luminosity Function of Galaxies in the Las Campanas Redshift Survey

Augustus Oemler (Yale), Douglas L. Tucker (Potsdam), Huan Lin, Paul L. Schechter (MIT), Robert P. Kirshner (Harvard), Stephen A. Shectman, Stephen D. Landy (Carnegie)

arxiv:astro-ph/9602064 v2 · 1996-02-13 · astro-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VTCCSGNL6FQX2YVTNEEWJJSRB5}

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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	2026-05-18T01:07:41.140923Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

acc42919abf1617d62b3690964a6510f5fb405f187e4c79f90bd475a52f09d03

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/9602064 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/9602064v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/9602064 · pith_short_12: VTCCSGNL6FQX · pith_short_16: VTCCSGNL6FQX2YVT · pith_short_8: VTCCSGNL

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/VTCCSGNL6FQX2YVTNEEWJJSRB5 \
  | 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: acc42919abf1617d62b3690964a6510f5fb405f187e4c79f90bd475a52f09d03

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b053b63d9d58ddf52caf9f782a917c84a292a176c77e5b5f001b17c4441b8ee1",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1996-02-13T21:12:38Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "13d8626cd51ba61952b4c91b3c6fcc9e99667fb1c88530b8cb45deb88e56b766"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/9602064",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}