Pith Number

pith:WCHWN5MB

pith:2014:WCHWN5MBSLNDY2MMB4WGPUE7CQ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The Megamaser Cosmology Project. VI. Observations of NGC 6323

C. Henkel, C. M. V. Impellizzeri, C. Y. Kuo, D. W. Pesce, J. A. Braatz, J. J. Condon, K. Y. Lo, M. J. Reid, S. H. Suyu

arxiv:1411.5106 v2 · 2014-11-19 · astro-ph.GA · astro-ph.CO

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{WCHWN5MBSLNDY2MMB4WGPUE7CQ}

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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	2026-05-18T01:41:29.190718Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b08f66f58192da3c698c0f2c67d09f140d772058f4b5abb107a19e53cb4d2f24

Aliases

arxiv: 1411.5106 · arxiv_version: 1411.5106v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1411.5106 · pith_short_12: WCHWN5MBSLND · pith_short_16: WCHWN5MBSLNDY2MM · pith_short_8: WCHWN5MB

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/WCHWN5MBSLNDY2MMB4WGPUE7CQ \
  | 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: b08f66f58192da3c698c0f2c67d09f140d772058f4b5abb107a19e53cb4d2f24

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "3a3d527bad6f567146ba81f646edb6a8fa61b52615d89e08eec1f859404ea5d0",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.CO"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2014-11-19T04:02:44Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "1a7c1749a0d88d6b45ad3a534e2b653fb2a51c94677f1fdaabef86b477410b3a"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1411.5106",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}