Pith Number

pith:WCBGBUW6

pith:2015:WCBGBUW6TFMZVESATVKSCMPWSY

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Unveiling the Milky Way: A New Technique for Determining the Optical Color and Luminosity of our Galaxy

Jarle Brinchmann, Jeffrey A. Newman, Timothy C. Licquia

arxiv:1508.04446 v1 · 2015-08-18 · astro-ph.GA

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{WCBGBUW6TFMZVESATVKSCMPWSY}

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4 Citations open

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	2026-05-18T01:35:02.767859Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b08260d2de99599a92409d552131f69633e7251a43753801f6d4de5c1f4ca12b

Aliases

arxiv: 1508.04446 · arxiv_version: 1508.04446v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1508.04446 · pith_short_12: WCBGBUW6TFMZ · pith_short_16: WCBGBUW6TFMZVESA · pith_short_8: WCBGBUW6

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/WCBGBUW6TFMZVESATVKSCMPWSY \
  | 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: b08260d2de99599a92409d552131f69633e7251a43753801f6d4de5c1f4ca12b

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "504eaa2846c2edaa37ffe7467dcbdaa14a08b27ef10459b9fddf5c77a59be953",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2015-08-18T20:18:45Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "6cbeff2f0787d61f2437d6557926112b55f236f4b361aaba383d574d29018666"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1508.04446",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}