Pith Number

pith:VUH6AXHL

pith:2017:VUH6AXHLQKNTQRVJLMWIGOJO5Q

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Galactic Archeology with 4MOST

A. Helmi, C. Chiappini, E. Starkenburg, I. Minchev, M. Bergemann, M. Irwin, M.R. Cioni, N. Christlieb, R.de Jong, S. Feltzing, T. Bensby

arxiv:1708.08884 v1 · 2017-08-29 · astro-ph.IM · astro-ph.GA

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VUH6AXHLQKNTQRVJLMWIGOJO5Q}

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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	2026-05-18T00:07:43.699352Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ad0fe05ceb829b3846a95b2c83392eec2949bab86a0234153d31f4cf07c34230

Aliases

arxiv: 1708.08884 · arxiv_version: 1708.08884v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1708.08884 · pith_short_12: VUH6AXHLQKNT · pith_short_16: VUH6AXHLQKNTQRVJ · pith_short_8: VUH6AXHL

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/VUH6AXHLQKNTQRVJLMWIGOJO5Q \
  | 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: ad0fe05ceb829b3846a95b2c83392eec2949bab86a0234153d31f4cf07c34230

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "67bc104cd7c168ac1408ed7e59ab232729551c785ddfcbd401f67cbcb3332176",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.GA"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.IM",
    "submitted_at": "2017-08-29T17:07:58Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "1f8cf28b8c4cbdd11103f09e1b56324562690c01da03b918f96de7910586308e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1708.08884",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}