Pith Number

pith:VVFPLNL6

pith:2017:VVFPLNL6HQDCDICK7PKR52HMRU

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

VIRAC: The VVV Infrared Astrometric Catalogue

C. Contreras Pe\~na, D. J. Pinfield, D. Minniti, F. Marocco, H. R. A Jones, J. Borissova, J. E. Drew, L. C. Smith, L. R. Bedin, M. A. Kuhn, M. Gromadzki, P. W. Lucas, R. Kurtev, R. Smart, Z. H. Zhang

arxiv:1710.08919 v1 · 2017-10-24 · astro-ph.SR · astro-ph.GA

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VVFPLNL6HQDCDICK7PKR52HMRU}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T00:27:12.580060Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ad4af5b57e3c0621a04afbd51ee8ec8d399af2bcaf23c14ac0cc156c06f5a615

Aliases

arxiv: 1710.08919 · arxiv_version: 1710.08919v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1710.08919 · pith_short_12: VVFPLNL6HQDC · pith_short_16: VVFPLNL6HQDCDICK · pith_short_8: VVFPLNL6

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/VVFPLNL6HQDCDICK7PKR52HMRU \
  | 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: ad4af5b57e3c0621a04afbd51ee8ec8d399af2bcaf23c14ac0cc156c06f5a615

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "5d451645ccc87e60696ab93b39249270931ae2997b94092dcc9f1f87f7fc3fd6",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.GA"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.SR",
    "submitted_at": "2017-10-24T16:59:56Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "2f61a8ee7953ae6409648b737485d403507837c1d38f21b34b07e7eb80727214"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1710.08919",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}