Pith Number

pith:VV75TJFC

pith:2003:VV75TJFC34OFAVKFYER36QMLWC

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Lyman Break Galaxies and the Star Formation Rate of the Universe at z~6

Andrew Bunker (1) & Richard McMahon (1) ((1) Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge), Elizabeth Stanway (1)

arxiv:astro-ph/0302212 v2 · 2003-02-12 · astro-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VV75TJFC34OFAVKFYER36QMLWC}

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First computed	2026-07-04T17:25:12.106562Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ad7fd9a4a2df1c505545c123bf418bb0a29e470392524268cd60c03dbf23756e

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/0302212 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/0302212v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/0302212 · pith_short_12: VV75TJFC34OF · pith_short_16: VV75TJFC34OFAVKF · pith_short_8: VV75TJFC

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/VV75TJFC34OFAVKFYER36QMLWC \
  | 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: ad7fd9a4a2df1c505545c123bf418bb0a29e470392524268cd60c03dbf23756e

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "449496b0efe27461db195558823926dc073159fb5edc15f17a8a144dddc91930",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2003-02-12T19:25:39Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d63966569514ded8538bab1e7c54435ffb603de094ee3af43634261d0fc4f269"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/0302212",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}