Pith Number

pith:WCVFC2OI

pith:2017:WCVFC2OITQTDQENLVO4WEPKSW5

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The Vertical Displacement of the Milky Way Disk

Heidi Jo Newberg, Yan Xu

arxiv:1708.03680 v1 · 2017-08-11 · astro-ph.GA

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{WCVFC2OITQTDQENLVO4WEPKSW5}

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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	2026-05-18T00:38:08.161422Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b0aa5169c89c263811ababb9623d52b750f48ef26d44b10fd6471e56deab1f23

Aliases

arxiv: 1708.03680 · arxiv_version: 1708.03680v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1708.03680 · pith_short_12: WCVFC2OITQTD · pith_short_16: WCVFC2OITQTDQENL · pith_short_8: WCVFC2OI

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/WCVFC2OITQTDQENLVO4WEPKSW5 \
  | 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: b0aa5169c89c263811ababb9623d52b750f48ef26d44b10fd6471e56deab1f23

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f03452718ec01a4da9a2e3e2530a2bc896cd62d76f558ba3b5e3fbdb3ba72a94",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2017-08-11T19:45:22Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "87b6e54bb24e214b7a6348fd7a00352db4de8c045363f6852d84732cba7cf9ab"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1708.03680",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}