Pith Number

pith:WJMKZNKV

pith:2018:WJMKZNKVYPOTYBFI6FC4KSMM5O

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Estimating the Milky Way's Mass via Hierarchical Bayes: A Blind Test on MUGS2 Simulated Galaxies

Benjamin W. Keller, Gwendolyn M. Eadie, William E. Harris

arxiv:1810.02427 v1 · 2018-10-04 · astro-ph.GA · astro-ph.IM

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\pithnumber{WJMKZNKVYPOTYBFI6FC4KSMM5O}

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:04:01.892151Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b258acb555c3dd3c04a8f145c5498ceb98a2cd58facaf1d76de3cd99dfdd0ddb

Aliases

arxiv: 1810.02427 · arxiv_version: 1810.02427v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1810.02427 · pith_short_12: WJMKZNKVYPOT · pith_short_16: WJMKZNKVYPOTYBFI · pith_short_8: WJMKZNKV

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/WJMKZNKVYPOTYBFI6FC4KSMM5O \
  | 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: b258acb555c3dd3c04a8f145c5498ceb98a2cd58facaf1d76de3cd99dfdd0ddb

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a4ebef165339d49a44563fe1e319cf81bbd9f996598702edb0d7a8197f05d815",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.IM"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2018-10-04T21:21:44Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "3c1686e0d188e5f924eb59958544b68be7b324e97df7c29d008d5f885b1257ef"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1810.02427",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}